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Kevin Clark Thinks You’re Overreacting With Your NFL Takes

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It’s only week two of NFL football season, but already people have a lot to say about who’s a bust and which teams won’t be making it to the playoffs. So today we ask ourselves, is there something to these proclamations, or are they simply overreactions? This is Football host Kevin Clark has a good head on his shoulders, so we brought him on to dispel some of this armchair analysis and reorient our thinking about: rookies like Caleb Williams, Bo Nix and Marvin Harrison, Jr., faltering starters like Kirk Cousins and Deshaun Watson, and whose NFL return we’re more likely to see: Tom Brady or Bill Belichick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kevin Clark, you are a much bigger football

0:05.3

aficionado than I am.

0:06.9

I tend to fall in the land of sports fan for whom football

0:11.0

is a part of my diet, and therefore when when new things come I wonder why they make the

0:14.7

changes that they do and in this particular case with the new kickoff rules being changed can

0:19.9

you explain to me why it is called the landing zone and not simply referred to as the

0:23.2

red zone as it is the same expansive case? This is a genuine question I have into

0:28.7

why you would insert a more complicated term that is literally something that we all know very well from branding to understanding to football in terms of stats kept as well.

0:37.6

I do think landing zone is kind of cool. You don't think it's cool? It's over complicating it?

0:42.6

Not that it's over complicating it, and it is, pardon me, it is over complicating it for the purposes of,

0:48.0

if you had told me, like before any terms ever got out there,

0:51.7

here's the new rule, got to kick it into the

0:53.7

red zone I would be like oh that's completely understandable with nothing else

0:57.7

needed to be said you know what I'm saying like it already makes sense in the

1:01.2

context of how we use the terms for that part of the field,

1:04.6

both defensively and offensively and often statistics.

1:06.7

Landing zone is just another unnecessary term and when they show me the graphics on the screen,

1:11.0

I'm like, oh, it's the red zone. I'll say this. on the zoning zone is probably workshopped a lot. I like it. It sounds very dramatic.

1:25.8

The landing zone. It does. There's not going to be a channel with Scott Hanson

1:30.9

called the landing zone ever.

1:33.2

Not yet, not with that attitude.

1:35.2

Looks at Man Media is shrinking and I couldn't, I think that you right now

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