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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Rule change to kickoffs + Will Justin Fields live up to offseason hype? (5/25 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including the NFL changing kickoff rules, arguing grass vs field turfs and Chris Simms reveals #24-20 on his QB Countdown.

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0:00.0

Yeah the fair catch roll we had a chance to weigh in on that well with all

0:04.7

special teams coaches we went to we had a good long talk and discussion about

0:09.1

that we weren't for it you know we voted against it we think it's gonna create

0:13.1

more you know high-speed head trauma than not having it in there that's our

0:18.0

position on it and but we'll see you know they want to give it a shot and take a

0:22.1

look at it and we'll give it a shot and take a look at it so it's in and and

0:25.3

because it's in we support it but we thought there were better ideas my thing is

0:29.6

where does it stop right so we start taking pieces and you know we'll see how

0:36.1

this goes but you want to take too many pieces away be playing flag football

0:44.5

John Harbaugh who made his bones as a special teams coach for Andy Reed in

0:49.6

Philadelphia yeah that's right when Reed was the Eagles head coach they both

0:54.6

have some thoughts about this chip chip chipping away at the kickoff rule

0:59.1

basically they understand it's dangerous so their solution is let's just

1:06.1

not do it as often that's how they've been working toward making it's

1:11.0

safe for hey it's a dangerous place so let's create scenarios where it won't

1:14.3

happen I don't know that that's the way to do it we've had one occasion over the

1:17.9

past decade where they've tried to make some more fundamental changes to the

1:21.0

play itself but this latest change the fair catch between the goal line in the

1:25.4

25 that gives you the ball to 25 that is just another example of coming up

1:29.6

with a way to have fewer kickoff returns because we have fewer kick returns there's

1:35.0

gonna be fewer instances of guys colliding at high speed fewer concussions fewer

1:38.5

neck injuries fewer injuries overall so what's hard balls logic from some but

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