Official Texans @ Titans Game Thread, 10/18/2020

[chuck]

Yeah, and he’s one of the highest paid kickers in the league. For me, making extra points is table stakes. I don’t mean making most of them, I mean make all of them. It infuriates me as I look around the league and see idiots shanking extra points all over the place.

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by chuck

It infuriates me as I look around the league and see idiots shanking extra points all over the place.

The NFL felt the extra point lacked drama when I felt it should be dropped altogether. Give the team seven points for the TD then subtract one if the team decides to try for two. Same end result except the team isn't left believing that their PK sucks and teams suffer a few less injuries (which the league talks out of both sides of their asses when they speak about altering the game to limit injuries).

I'm old enough to remember when teams didn't even having kicking specialists. They'd get a guy who actually played the other downs to punt or placekick. Lou "The Toe" Groza was an honest-to-God offensive tackle in his playing days who just happened to also be a fine placekicker, not some guy who couldn't cut it on the local soccer team.

Originally Posted by barrett

I honestly couldn't follow your nick names.

I wasn't about to call the guy "BOB", for rather obvious reasons. What moron thought that nickname up?