since when was it legal to return a missed FG back for a TD? return for 108 yards, longest play in NFL history. anyone else watching the MNF debacle and see that play? I am extremely dumbfounded. Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about football, a play like this comes along. anyone got insight? do you just have to catch the missed FG to return it? Why isn't it done more often? Why not stack the endzone with a PR team?
remember the Leon Lett incident? If a defensive player touches it after the kick(not by blocking it tho) it is a live ball.
They don't "set up returns" because the odds are usually greater to block a field goal than for the field goal to not only miss but be well short. In 99% of missed field goals, they are off to the left or right, not short and definitely not catchable in the field of play. If you want precedence, though, go back to the Leon Lett play on Thanksgiving Day '93 in the snow. If the defensive team touches the ball when it's past the line of scrimmage, that ball is live. If the offensive team recovers it, they can score, or it can be returned.
I had always tried to do that on video games, but it never happend. I tried to catch it, but nothing happens. We all know that video games are up to par with NFL rules and situations.
Just when I thought the Ravens were the worst team in the NFL, I guess I'm wrong. Looks like the Texans are.
I'm guessing you haven't seen the Bengals. I don't know if there's a team in NFL history that they could beat...
I think heard that both the Ravens and Bengals were very very poor on offense. Something like on having 5ppg and the other having 3. ( I think that may be wrong slightly.) Now the Bengals are probably the worse. As long as its not the Cowboys or Texans...
but wasn't the Lett play on a blocked FG??? this didn't involve a block, just a shanked, short FG. edit: that play was a block. from nfl.com: To this day, Lett believes he would have received a game ball if only he had waited until after the game to get his hands on it. Instead, he inexplicably tried to fall on the ball near the Dallas goal line after the Cowboys had blocked a 41-yard field-goal attempt by Pete Stoyanovich with 15 seconds remaining. The ball squirted out of Lett's hands and Miami's Jeff Dellenbach recovered at the Cowboys' 1-yard line. That set up Stoyanovich's 19-yard field goal on the game's final play, which gave the Dolphins a 16-14 victory
Any team can beat the Texans right now. The simple reason being that we can't give Carr anytime in the pocket. You have to win the battle inside to win.
The Lett play was on a blocked fg, but it doesn't really matter, rule is still the same whether it's blocked or no. How often does a fg miss and stay in bounds anyway? Not very often I imagine.
I am an, unfortunately, a Broncos fan and I am utterly disgusted and appalled with their effort tonight. They look like they are intimidated by the Ravens. There is no excuse for them to be losing like this to such a bad team. I hate Brian Billick and I hate Ray Lewis...f*cking punk ass murderer. He is the ONLY ex-Hurricane that I despise with a passion.
This just in....Brian Griese f*cking sucks!! There is no way in hell that the Broncos are going to win a Super Bowl with him leading the way. He just doesn't have what it takes to lead a team.
It rarely happens (first time I can remember seeing an unblock kicked get returned) because usually the field position gained by not returning it is better than if you returned it, and got tackled promptly. In this case, the time was expired on the clock, so field position wasn't a concern. If there were time on the clock, McAlister would have more than likely let the ball sit, and the Ravens would have had possesion on their own 47. A missed FG like that is essentially the same thing as a punt, as far as returning it goes.
is anyone else sick of hearing that damned whistle in the background between every play? Someone needs to find the owner of that thing and shove it down his throat!
