Former Steelers kicker Reed doesn't like new NFL PAT rule

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First, the NFL essentially eliminated kickoffs by placing the ball at the 35-yard line to promote more touchbacks, and now they have moved extra points back to a place on the field where the two-point conversion becomes more of a viable option.


In the grand scheme of the game, it's not really a big deal … unless you are a kicker, or a former kicker.


Jeff Reed, who kicked eight years for the Steelers, is the team's second-leading all-time scorer. He believes there is something more to the NFL's decision Tuesday to move the line of scrimmage for extra points back 13 yards to the 15-yard-line.


“I can say this right now because I am not playing anymore, but I think (commissioner) Roger Goodell is trying to get rid of kickers,” Reed said...........

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[86WARD]

No kicker likes it.

[Lady Steel]

Oh. my. gawd. He's soooooo wasted!

[Moose]

Oh yea, classy time to stick a mic in his face ! lol

[Godfather]

Hide yo towel dispensers!

[hawaiiansteeler]

NFL may see its first one-point safety

Posted by Michael David Smith on May 22, 2015



A little-noticed aspect of the NFL’s new extra point rule is that we could see, for the first time in league history, a one-point safety.

If the defense gets the ball in the field of play on a conversion attemp, and then a defensive player takes the ball into his own end zone and is tackled, the result will be a one-point safety: The offensive team will get one point. That has never happened before in NFL history.

It had never happened before because it was virtually impossible: In the past, any time the defense took possession of the ball on a point-after attempt (either a one-point kick or a two-point conversion), the play was blown dead. A one-point safety was theoretically possible before, but it would have happened only if the defensive team had illegally batted a fumbled ball in the end zone.

One-point safeties have happened in college football, most notably in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl, when Kansas State blocked an Oregon extra point and a Kansas State player picked up the ball and ran it into his own end zone. The college rule that gives the defense the opportunity to score two points by returning an interception, fumble or blocked kick to the opposite end zone means that defensive teams that take possession of the ball will try to run it back for a score, and sometimes those players end up getting tackled after backtracking into their own end zones.

With that rule now in place in the NFL, it will happen in the NFL eventually as well: Some defensive player is going to reverse field, get caught in his own end zone, and give up the first one-point safety in NFL history.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...-point-safety/

[86WARD]

Why one point? Why not just keep it at 2 like every other safety?