Move the extra point farther back?

General Blackshirt said:
I still have no idea why you say kicking would be easier from farther back.

In a perfect world, the kicker would want to kick it as high as possible (to avoid a block) but also long enough that it will make it over the crossbar. If we were comparing the difference in kicking a 30 yard FG and a FG from the middle of the endzone, you'd have a point. But as for an extra point, it shouldn't make any difference.

Nothing says you have to treat an extra point like a pitching wedge shot, with more loft and less distance. I don't remember Henery ever getting a kick blocked, so if he wanted to treat it like a FG he could.

Vice versa, Alex Henery could treat a 40 yard FG like an extra point and it would still probably go in. I just don't see any vertical advantage to moving a kick farther back. There is a tremendous horizontal disadvantage though, so even if a vertical advantage did exist, the two would more-or-less offset each other.
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yeah, i dont know either. i mean, my friend matt only kicked at the division 1 level for 3 years, wtf is he talking about? ill go tell him some guy on the internet wants to argue with him.

if you really wanted to know, though, youre best bet is probably to get up from the desk, gather 21 friends, head out to the field and try to knock anything though the uprights.

 
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i think the point of the PAT is that it is an automatic 1 point, but a tempting, much more challenging 2 points. i mean, the northwestern game was exponentially more interesting because of the 2 point conversion attempt.

maybe pat's make more sense when you think about the history of the game (before the forward lateral) and when you think about a time before overtime.

i think the system is fine the way it is. is should be an automatic one point, more challenging two-points and every once in a while it is blocked or missed and that has a huge impact.

it is like a free throw, just another opportunity to score; but it is pointless to compare different sports because they all have their nuances and quirks that do not make sense in any other context except the game in which it exists.

 
mmmtodd said:
if you really wanted to know, though, youre best bet is probably to get up from the desk, gather 21 friends, head out to the field and try to knock anything though the uprights.
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It would probably be easier for you to just get Matt to register so he can explain it! From a physics standpoint, I don't understand it. I'm not doubting what he is saying, I just don't understand it based on the clarifications made.

Maybe I will do this 21 friends thing. Kicking is kinda fun, after all.

 
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