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Originally Posted by calf
The theory should be that you're giving up a point in exchange for better field position. In the CFL, you take a knee on a missed FG or a punt that goes to the endzone, you give your opponent a point in exchange for not starting much deeper in your own territory. In the NFL, with a touchback, you get 20 yards for free. Where's the strategy and gamesman ship in that?
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There aren't touchbacks on missed FGs in the NFL, your opponent gets the ball from where you kicked it Touchbacks are considered a bad thing on punts, hence why teams try to down the ball or put it out of bounds inside the 20, and there tends to be plenty of gamesmanship that goes on around that with guys faking fair catches, etc. The point in the NFL is if you screw up on a kick, you get penalized. I think that makes the game more exciting because it's forcing more teams to go for it on 4th down when they're in that bit of no-man's land that's just outside of FG range but in a spot where your chances of downing a punt inside the 20 are low.