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Our kickers routinely kick 75+ yard kicks, it wouldn't be miraculous, it would be common. They kick to the 1 by design, they can kick further, and do so often. On a regular kickoff, you are right, there is no risk if it goes over your head.

On a kick, your first instinct isn't to charge up, it is to step back, just like fielding a pop fly. Even though you don't believe the possibility is there that the ball lands between the goal line and 15, it is there, and that area is the back man's responsibility, so he has to respect that, while also being the safety for the next line up. Simply put, he can just charge up if the kick looks short because if he misjudges the speed and has to backtrack, the ball is certainly ours.

I know you are not actually dumb, you are clearly intelligent, I just don't understand what you don't get that there is more space to cover. We both know that's not even really the point here, so why so get so hung up on it.

The returners are on the 15. Anything over their heads and before the goaline they will easily be able to catch. Easily. The kick would have to go 80 yards before they were able to cover 15, that is my point. Look how easily the players cover the 10 yards of the endzone depth

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Posted by OceanMan

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Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:44 pm to lsupride87

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The returners are on the 15. Anything over their heads and before the goaline they will easily be able to catch. Easily.

Let's pretend in this scenario, that the ball is not going over their head, but is instead kicked short and bouncing. If you are at the 15, and you charge forward at a ball that you judge will be at the 25, but then takes a bounce to put it somewhere beyond the 15. Regular kickoff, it is in the end zone, dead ball. In the penalty scenario, the ball now has a chance to be live for 15 more yards, which you are responsible for. If you rush the ball and misjudge its distance, its a live ball, so you hesitate until you are more sure of where it is heading.

You are competing against guys going full speed, a half second hesitation could literally equal 5-10 yards, that is a headstart you give them, because you are responsible for more area, and that area is within scoring distance.

Please tell me that you buy this logic.

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