Jets studying for kickoff rule change that is still ‘huge unknown’
NY Post
As training camps open for the 2024 NFL season, there is a great unknown hanging over every team.
The NFL instituted a new kickoff rule this year, and it is going to drastically alter a play that became stale in recent years after changes were made for safety.
No one seems to know quite what to expect from the rule change, including coaches.
“It’s a big challenge with all these new rules,” Jets special teams coach Brant Boyer said. “It’s kind of a wait-and-see kind of deal, and you see what fits and what works and what kicks are best and who’s doing it, all that stuff. I think there’s a huge unknown, to be honest with you. We’ve done nothing but study and study and study, and been in here almost every day, to be honest with you, trying to figure out what’s going to work best, but nobody knows until you strap it up and the preseason games start.”
The kickoff is going to be a huge storyline in the preseason, when casual fans tune in and see a play that looks very different from what they are used to.
The biggest visual difference is the formation.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.