Big Kickoff Returns a Thing of the Past

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Published: August 17, 2009

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... the past in the NFL. There is nothing more exciting than seeing your team's player taking a kick and breaking away from the pack, with only the kicker to beat. Then putting on a quick move, making the kicker fall on his back and knowing that your team just instantly put seven points back on the board. This year, Roger Goodell has taken that excitement away.

Roger Goodell decided that the wedge will no longer be a legal football formation. Instead of having four players lined across protecting your return man, opening up holes, teams are now only allowed to use just two.

Teams can run a 2-2-1 blocking formation, where you have two blockers first, then two more five yards behind them, and then the one personal blocker going whichever direction the return man is going. The problem with this formation is the gunners coming from the side can get in very easily and stop any return from forming.

The other formation they c...

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