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Originally Posted by brockguy
Please don't abuse me for my big time ignorance on this but 2 questions about the NFL that has got me thinking over the last few weeks:
1. Why are the kickers so bad?- they truly are awful! The Bengals kicker and the Arizona guy at the end of their game spring to mind just this weekend- they get paid, what half a million a year to perfect kicking a ball through a post! They should be missing a lot less than they do-
2. Why do teams not go for 2point conversions more often? Does anyone have stats on how often they succeed doing it? Take Green Bay last week as an example - when they were 14 points down, they scored a TD so they are 8 down now. I thought the coach should have gone for 2. If they missed it, well they are still 1score away from levelling the game, if they get it (and with the Arizona D the way it was, they probably would have got it) they are only 6 down and a TD and PAT would win it! The college coaches seem to do it a lot more for some reason!!
Anyway, if anyone can answer those questions, I'd be very happy! If not, I can wait for the World Cup to start in June for real football :-)
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1. They make more kicks than they used to to actually. 2008 season was one of the highest % ever made. This is a down year. People choke.
2. "The 2-point conversion became a part of the college game in 1958, and the N.F.L. introduced it 1994. During that first season, pro teams succeeded on about 51 percent of their 2-point attempts, just as they did this season and last season, according to Stats LLC.
In 1995, though, the success rate fell to 39 percent and remained below 45 percent for most of the next decade. Defensive coaches apparently learned how to react to the plays that offenses were calling"