I visited a few people at the meetings over the weekend. Some are confident that a vote to impose at least one occupation per team in the extension will garner the required 24 of the group’s 32 votes and become law in 2023. “I think it will pass easily,” said a top team official.
I hope he is right. With the rise of powerful offenses and the privileges that play deep in the playoffs, the reversal of the currency has become very influential, when a touchdown in the first possession ends the game. In the last 10 years, there have been 12 extra time playoffs and the team that won the coin to start extra time has won 10. In seven of those games, the game won the first move of extra time, so the loser did not touch a single coin. never the ball in seven of the 12 games.
My instinct – and that’s all – is that any team that touches the ball in extra time in the playoffs is likely to pass. But for regular season games, I have a conflicting view. I’m optimistic, but less confident, that it will pass for all 2022 games.
Here are the mechanisms of what will happen in the overtime rules meetings: The Competition Commission will present the 120-page report on the rules and the 2021 season to owners, GMs and coaches on Tuesday. There will be a discussion on both overtime. One is simple. Each team would get at least one possession in overtime and if they draw after those two possessions, the next score wins. Two has a wrinkle; if Team A scores a touchdown and PAT in the first move of extra time, Team B needs a touchdown and must attempt a two-point conversion after the TD. So the game ends after the second possession if they both score TD.
This will be quite difficult to pass with both teams having guaranteed possession in overtime. The owners and bosses of the team hate the tricks and proposing the two points is a trick. I can not see that it has a lot of traction.
I understand the side that I think is just the game-defense of those who oppose the change of the rule. But I keep asking the same question: How often does an extra team win the coin and choose to play defense? For the last 36 games that have gone into overtime, the answer is zero. For 36 consecutive NFL overtime games, the winner of the currency reversal took the ball first. Why did no coach from Mike Tomlin three years ago – when his general was Duck Hodges – choose to defend a goal and give the ball to the other team to start extra time?
The Commissioner is always influential in key rule changes. But I can not understand how he relies on it.
So we will see how this goes. My bet is that if it seems that more than eight teams are opposed to the change, the authorities will propose a solution only for the playoffs. After two disastrous finishes in the last four seasons – Patrick Mahomes did not touch him at the 2018 AFC title game, Josh Allen did not touch him at the KC playoffs in January – I will be surprised if he does not at least make it to the playoffs of.
Hard Knocks ’22. The Lions will receive NFL Films training at the training camp this summer. It will be Detroit’s first time in the Hard Knocks and I have to think that while some teams have to fight by hand to become the Hard Knocks team, the Lions under colorful second-year coach Dan Campbell will use it. to their advantage — both in terms of fan loyalty and attention to a dormant franchise. Campbell and his lively, strong personality will be natural for the HBO show. Hearing that Frank Reich’s hard Knock season experience was a good sales tool – Reich actually enjoyed most of last season’s experience, even the one that ended in Week 18 disaster – and also heard that the president of Lions, Rod Wood was a big supporter of him. Why don’t the Lions want it? They need the report. Interesting fact: This will be the 17th edition of Hard Knocks, the hourly weekly look at a team at a training camp and the first time an NFC North team has appeared.
Roger Goodell. In his opening remarks to 700 club owners, coaches and top executives in Palm Beach on Sunday afternoon, Goodell celebrated the NFL’s high-stakes competition in 2021 (each of the last seven playoffs was decided by six points or less) , playing during the pandemic, with strong points about gains in diversity, equality and inclusion. If you were looking for him to say something powerful about teams falling everywhere to exchange a player for 22 sex-related civil cases, you would be disappointed. It was not mentioned. The opportunity was lost there.
Bobby Wagner. The Rams have a vested interest, but not in Wagner’s honor – he is believed to be asking for about $ 11 million in a one-year deal. The 32-year-old linebacker is still playing very well and would be a kind of luxury for the Super Bowl champions. If he wants to stay in the same category as the team that knocked him out, Seattle, Wagner will have to recalibrate the price he is asking for. Can he just find another team – Baltimore? Dallas? —With more cash available.
Free agent Bobby Wagner. (Getty Images)
Deshaun Watson. I’m not sure Watson changed his mind at the introductory press conference on Friday. “I never did anything these people claim,” said Watson, one of three or four different ways to deny any sexual assault. This is a bold clip in this story, especially when a Houston police officer was recorded after authorities investigated the cases and said the accusers were “credible and credible.” Someone is not telling the truth here. As for Watson’s fate, the NFL can do one of three things this year: put him on the commissioner’s list of exceptions (he would be paid for a second consecutive season while remaining on the 22 sex crimes cases). Let him play by postponing discipline until things are done. or suspend him for some time this year regardless of the outcome of the cases. It’s been a mystery since this morning.
Jimmy and Dee Haslam. They are not the most popular people in the league matches on Sunday. I have heard many complaints from those who believe that a) they are exchanging six options for a player who can be found guilty of heinous offenses or b) he signs Watson with the richest guaranteed contract in league history and gives him a $ 80 million increase “it stinks of paradise” as one team member said. The Haslams should have known he was coming, and now that they have exchanged and signed Watson, he will not leave.
Tua Tagovailoa. Talk about pressure. No player in the 2022 season is close to the weight on his shoulders that Tagovailo has. Following the Miami mega-trade for Tyreek Hill, Tagovailoa now has Hill and Jaylen Waddle in the top 10 in the league under threat, along with ace Mike Gesicki and a remade backfield (Chase Edmonds, Raheem Mostert). Let’s deal with Tua and the deep ball. Last year, just 5.3 percent of his completions (14 out of 263) were on balls thrown 20 yards or more across the match line. Patrick Mahomes had 36 such additions. Tagovailoa was 30th in the championship in 20 yards and now 29. His two deep threats are 4.29 and 4.37 seconds 40 children. And there will be a microscope for the third general to see if he can take advantage of their ability to open games. Considering that Waddle cost Miami two first-round picks and Hill cost five picks (including the first and second), Tagovailoa will feel the hot breath of backup Teddy Bridgewater from Columbus Day if Waddle and Hill start moderate.
Concussion. As we crush the NFL for all the head injuries, praise should be given when there is progress. I will compare the relevant apples with the apples here, using documented concussion data from 2015 to 2019 and after 2021. (2020 is a more extreme year, because there were no preseason games due to the pandemic.) In preparation and in the regular season and games each year from 2015 to 2019, players suffered, respectively, 275, 243, 281, 214 and 224 concussions. in 2021, the number dropped to 187. My view for the biggest reason: Six years ago, about half of all NFL players wore helmets that were strongly recommended by the league and the players’ association. By 2021, that number has risen to 99 percent of the players who use the highest performing helmets.
Immediate repetition. Interesting data for the rerun from 2021: The average rerun review lasted 2 minutes, 27 seconds — reduced by 61 seconds from 2020. Tournament credits added authorization given to rerun referees and at the New York administrative center either contact the referee on the court to point out an error — and the use of Hawkeye video technology at every stage. The Hawkeye system allows the appearance of the desired repetitions much faster instead of being at the mercy …
