Sneed to Tennessee for a 2025 3rd and a swap of 2024 7ths.
Feels a bit meh for both sides. Don't really see the fit for Sneed with the Titans ... they shouldn't be a playoff team, so not sure giving up draft capital and a big contract for a 27 year old corner with health concerns makes sense. Return for KC also a bit underwhelming, given Sneeds quality - but they didn't seem to have much leverage.
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During the 2024 season, kickers will continue to kick from the 35-yard line, but the other 10 players on the kickoff team will line up at the receiving team's 40-yard line. At least nine members of the return team will line up in a "setup zone" between the 35- and 30-yard lines. Up to two returners can line up in a "landing zone" between the goal line and the 20-yard line.
No one other than the kicker and returner(s) can move until the ball hits the ground or hits a player inside the landing zone. Touchbacks will be marked at the 30-yard line, and no fair catches will be allowed. In the event a team wants to attempt an onside kick, it will have to inform officials of its intent and would then be allowed to use the NFL's traditional formation. No surprise onside kicks will be allowed.
The proposal follows the structure and philosophy of the XFL version with a slight shift in where the players are aligned. In the XFL, they lined up farther downfield, between the returning team's 30- and 35-yard lines. More than 90% of kickoffs were returned during the XFL's two seasons. NFL special teams coaches who participated in designing the NFL version of this format are hoping for a return rate of at least 80% in 2024.
The hip-drop tackle, league executives began saying last year, inflicted injury at 25 times the rate of the average tackle.
And this wasn’t just any injury, the league’s health and safety committee said. This was a time-loss injury.
Fifteen times last season — nearly once a week in a sport where each team plays 17 regular-season games — a player was tackled via what the league is now calling a “swivel” hip-drop tackle, and that player missed game time due to the tackle.
Perhaps as concerning for the committee: The 230 examples of this move that they found on 2023 tape represented a 60% increase from the previous season’s frequency.
“This isn’t an elimination of hip drop,” competition committee chairman Rich McKay said in a Monday afternoon news conference. “This is elimination of a swivel technique that doesn't get used very often and when it is used, it is incredibly injurious to the runner. The runner is purely defenseless.
“Yes, we outlawed the hip drop. But what you may think [of], the drag from behind when he falls, that’s still a [legal] tackle. This is only that tackle where the player is lifting himself in the air and then falling on the legs.”
The majority of the kickoffs get booted into or through the end zone currently so is this new rule/formation enough for a change in strategy and kickers leaving it short of the end zone?
The majority of the kickoffs get booted into or through the end zone currently so is this new rule/formation enough for a change in strategy and kickers leaving it short of the end zone?
I think they may kick to the player now, touchbacks are at the 30.
I don't think this increases any chance of returns.
The majority of the kickoffs get booted into or through the end zone currently so is this new rule/formation enough for a change in strategy and kickers leaving it short of the end zone?
Yes? Touchbacks now go to the 30 and you cannot fair catch. Popup kicks to the 5 probably most likely now I’d imagine. After marinating on it a bit I’d say this is the worst change to football in my lifetime that’s how stupid I think it is. Between the spacing, the idiot timing, the fact they’ve now banned surprise onside kicks, ugh. I hates it so much
Yes? Touchbacks now go to the 30 and you cannot fair catch. Popup kicks to the 5 probably most likely now I’d imagine. After marinating on it a bit I’d say this is the worst change to football in my lifetime that’s how stupid I think it is. Between the spacing, the idiot timing, the fact they’ve now banned surprise onside kicks, ugh. I hates it so much
The NFL is turning into a gimmick league.
Dumb rule changes. Increasing European games. Thursday night football.
If the Super Bowl heads to Europe that's it for me.
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Police are searching for Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice in their investigation of a major accident Saturday in Dallas, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Citing law enforcement officials, the Dallas Morning News reported that a vehicle that is believed to be registered to or leased to Rice was involved in a crash in northeast Dallas at around 6:20 p.m. local time Saturday.
A police call sheet obtained by the Dallas Morning News confirmed that officials are searching for Rice in connection with the crash.
After ther Ruggs incident it's clear that some young players still aren't getting the message that alcohol and fast cars is a really bad idea. Leaving the scene of the crime seems to be the go-to move to get away with jail time as Jalen Carter can attest.
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Former Detroit Lions cornerback Cameron Sutton turned himself in to law enforcement, ending a weeks-long search for the defensive back who had a warrant issued for domestic violence. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced that the 29-year-old arrived at the jail in Tampa, Florida on Sunday night.
"After weeks of evading law enforcement, this man has finally made the right choice to turn himself in," Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said, via the Associated Press. "Domestic violence has no place in our community, and no one is above the law here in Hillsborough County. My thoughts are with this woman as she continues to heal from this man's gruesome actions."
Police were initially contacted on March 7 regarding an alleged domestic incident involving the former Pittsburgh Steelers starter, and the victim's name is still being withheld. Sutton was specifically wanted for domestic battery by strangulation, which is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Nerfed the kickoff for XFL rules . Quit the pretense and eliminate the kickoff entirely instead of wasting our time.
