TyronePoole
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last year Belichick said this:
Belichick says league wants to eliminate kickoffs | ProFootballTalk
and today Mara says this:
John Mara: NFL “evolving toward” eliminating kickoffs | ProFootballTalk
I for one am shocked that they were less than forthcoming about this last August...
Belichick says league wants to eliminate kickoffs | ProFootballTalk
“That’s what they told us,” Belichick said. “I’m not speaking for anyone else. That’s what they told us, that they want to eliminate the play.”
The league disagrees.
“[Chairman of the Competition Committee] Rich McKay and [NFL Vice President] Ray Anderson say that’s not accurate,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told Curran via e-mail. “They said the Competition Committee’s position was that they wanted to ‘shorten the field’ and that the movement of the kickoff line would potentially reduce the number of kickoffs to be returned. They said they are unaware of anyone saying that it was intended to ‘eliminate’ the kickoff return.”
and today Mara says this:
John Mara: NFL “evolving toward” eliminating kickoffs | ProFootballTalk
That’s the word from Giants owner John Mara, a Competition Committee member who says the conversations have already started about potentially taking the play that has started every football game in history out of the league for good.
“We had a lot of discussions about whether we should eliminate it and if we did what we could do in its place,” Mara told Giants.com. “There’s no consensus on it right now, but I could see the day in the future where that play could be taken out of the game. You see it evolving toward that.”
I for one am shocked that they were less than forthcoming about this last August...