nfl drop kick kickoff

The kicker must drop the ball like a punter does, not throw it 10 feet in the air, then it’s kicked after the ball has bounced off the ground, about 2-3 inches. I could believe either explanation.John Harbaugh not knowing the rulebook. Rule 3, Section 18, Article 1, Item 1 defines the dropkick as, "a kick by a player who drops the ball and kicks it as, or immediately after, it touches the ground." Gives you better field position too.It seems like the rules used to be simpler. Harbaugh does have a history of not interpreting rules correctlyTWO WEEKS after the game the league office is just NOW determining this was incorrectly called? You know what else doesn’t take time off the clock? Har-bawl left that part out.Isn’t this the same weasel who whined when the Patriots ran some unusual, but perfectly legal, plays?So the League might not totally understand how to consistently implement one of its own rules? Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Or even watched a video of how it’s done correctly, like Flutie’s? If the rule didn’t directly say–no you can not do this–then you were allowed to do it. Let the coaches be creative and the fans enjoy it.

It sounds like it’s legal to kick off like that, but 1. Ravens head coach John Harbaugh says he was specifically told otherwise.The kick, which wasn’t flagged, was a late kickoff attempt on which However, the NFL confirmed this week that the kick was illegal.“By definition, a drop kick is a kick by a player who drops the ball and kicks it as, or immediately after, it touches the ground. The rules are getting to be too complex. Justin Tucker kicking it out of the end zone.

So, that’s pretty much how it works and how it worked in this case.”That’s not how it should work: The rules should be clear to every team, and the message from the officiating office shouldn’t change during the season. In 2006, New England Patriots quarterback Doug Flutie converted a drop kick for an extra point after a fourth-quarter touchdown against the Miami Dolphins. Shocking.Why do I feel they made this illegal after Doug Flutie did it for New England a few years back?The fact that it took 2 weeks to come out with a statement on it should tell you all you need to know.One really can’t expect Harbaugh to know the rules.sure i believe the NFL i mean when havent they been less than forthcoming?Watch Doug Flutie’s dropkick on youtube that he did as a Patriot back in 2006 I think it was. Good thinking on his part.Either Harbaugh didn’t really clearly explain the kick as they executed (as he claims), or the NFL changed their mind after seeing what they OK’d. Michael Dickson drop kicks ball on Seattle kickoff - NFL.com

he waits till Belichick comes up with something, whines about it then steals it…seen this out of this guy for years.John Harbaugh has been known to not know all the rules but in this case he was not sure so he cleared it with the refs. So now, it’s not legal. With the football's redesign, its pointier ends meant its bounce became dangerously unpredictable, relegating the drop kick to obscurity. What’s new?I have no doubt he’s telling the truth about having made sure that was OK before doing it.And I have no doubt what he described in advance did not match with what they did on the field. However, the NFL confirmed this week that the kick was illegal. “By definition, a drop kick is a kick by a player who drops the ball and kicks it as, or immediately after, it touches the ground. If the rule didn’t directly say–no you can not do this–then you were allowed to do it.Sure the rules were simpler back then but since we’ve had HCs like BB that study the rulebook and they wander into those gray areas purposely, so then the opposing HC complains and the NFL makes a new rule or defines the rule further to try to avoid those gray areas, multiply that by __ years and here we are with a rule book that’s thicker than “War and Peace”!Maybe it’s time for the NFL to stop coddling all those whining HCs and making new rules just for them every off-season!Can they clarify whether it was illegal to drop kick a kickoff in any way, or whether it was that the Ravens conducted the play illegally? Lots of contact with the returner after he signaled fair catch. If a kicker drops the football to the ground and kicks it immediately after it lands, he has completed a drop kick. WOW, Harbawl still doesn’t know the rules of the NFL. If that does not happen, the play should be shut down and a flag thrown for a false start,” the league office said in a statement emailed to PFT.Harbaugh, however, says the Ravens contacted the league as they were drawing up that play to make sure it was legal, and he was told that it was.Harbaugh accused the league of changing the rule after the fact.“We explained exactly what we were doing and how it was going to go, and they said it was legal, we could do it,” Harbaugh said. A bad bounce doesn’t automatically allow a do-over, which is how it played out. However, it remains a legal kick in the NFL's official rules and can be used for field goals, extra points and fair-catch kicks.An NFL kicker can use either a drop kick or a placekick to kick the ball through the uprights of the opponent's goal for field goals from behind the line of scrimmage, or to score an extra point following a touchdown. Tucker waited for too much of a bounce before making contact (not “immediately after the ball hit the ground), or 3.

Obviously, the New England Patriots were well aware of this fact. I’m certain you could teach a semester long class to someone that wants to learn the rules now, and branch that into a rule-book philosophy course.That’s the video you should look at, not Doug Flutie’s kick goal.I don’t understand why NFL people and media are “hyping” soccer’s player as kickers.This is the last man that should be whining about knee jerk rule changes. In professional football's early history, the more rounded ball made drop kicks more predictable, and they were commonly used to score field goals and extra points. The Refs should have flagged the Ravens, would have loved to see Harbawl freak out about it.Harbag as always skirted the rules and only complains LOUDLY when they are skirted towards him.. See Pats.I’m so sick of people trying to spin this as a smart play by Harbaugh because it ended in a fair catch that took no time off the clock.

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