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The NFL finally found a change to the kickoff formation that it likes. But the league apparently doesn't like it enough. Four weeks ago today, Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay said ...
DENNIS: So it was unsafe because, if you think about the way that the kickoff formation is, you basically have nine or 10 guys on one side charging at nine or 10 guys on the other side as fast as ...
And that's all that happened. Per multiple sources, the meeting included a brief presentation about the performance of the new kickoff formation during the preseason. Returns are up, injuries are ...
With NFL owners making significant rules changes, the traditional kickoff formation pictured here is now a thing of the past. James Lang-USA TODAY Sports Most special teams coaches agreed the ...
I’m here to guarantee that the new NFL kickoff rules will be the greatest rule change in the league since it adopted college football’s two-point conversion in 1994. I say that because I ...
If returners thrive in the new kickoff formation, then teams will just start kicking touchbacks again, which is what the NFL was trying to avoid when it approved the new rule. "If the analytics ...
I recently predicted that, by the trade deadline, half of the NFL’s head coaches will decide that the best way to handle the reconfigured kickoff formation will be to kick the ball out of the end zone ...
Against Leicester City in their third match of the season, Emery unleashed another pre-kick-off formation. This time, Watkins returned to the left alongside McGinn, while Onana moved further up ...
The NFL finally found a change to the kickoff formation that it likes. But the league apparently doesn’t like it enough. Four weeks ago today, Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay said changes ...