In a recent report by ESPN.com, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told the NFL Network that the league’s competition committee could consider abolishing the PAT.
On NFL Network’s “Total Access,” Goodell told host
Rich Eisen that “one of the issues that has happened is that the extra point is
almost automatic.” Goodell is obviously right. In the 2013-2014 regular season,
the NFL saw only five missed extra points in 1,267 tries - the misses coming
from Cincinnati, Chicago, Minnesota, Detroit and Jacksonville.
But if the committee actually did do away with the
extra point, the question becomes what would happen after a touchdown?
One proposal that Goodell mentioned would involve a
touchdown being worth an automatic seven points instead of six, and the
potential for another play from scrimmage that could result in an eighth point.
However, “if you fail, you’d go back to six,” Goodell explained.
This is certainly a very interesting idea that could
affect the way coaches prepare and approach certain game situations. Goodell,
however, did mention that there are still various roadblocks to any such
change.
With the commissioner stating that “you want to add
excitement to every play,” it wouldn’t surprise me if something that has become
nearly automatic and flat out boring becomes obsolete in the near future.
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