Line of Scrimmage Podcast – Episode 8: NFL/CFL rule changes, 4th Down Attempts on the rise and the XFL comes back from the dead in 2022!

Hello, this is the line of scrimmage where we go each week. One-on-one with the issues facing football today. Hello, I’m Greg quick and we’re powered by offense defense sports camps. This is episode eight of our podcast today. We’re to discuss rules and trends in football. But first quick news, quick news is fact news news flash XFL to return in 2022. The XFL has now been resurrected twice and a league’s new ownership group fronted by the rock. Dwayne Johnson tweeted the news last week, an illegal begin in 2022 fact, this will be the third attempt to build the XFL brand. The league originally launched to much fanfare in 2001, but only played just one season. Vince McMahon brought it back in 2020 only to shut it down in April fact, the NFL was founded in 1920 by George Hallis and friends fact competition for the great cup in Canada, which is akin to the Lombardi trophy was first awarded in 1909.

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But that loophole is a tightened. Exploited is now closed. Now let’s look at the leading trends in football. I think the number one trend is Fort down at tips. That’s the hypothesis. Let’s see if we can prove that hypothesis with empirical data. And it said empirical data that is encouraged the fourth down attempts to grow the metrics, the study. What impacts a game? What decisions most impact a game. It’s not about risk taking it’s about making intelligent decisions, informed intelligent decisions. So let’s look at the history. There has to be a moment. There has to be a catalyst that changed because of the history of the game of football for down has been a putt only the rare Renegade, his dare to achieve or attempt four downs on a regular basis. But in 2017, that changed the Philadelphia Eagles set the NFL record for the fourth down attempts with 29 attempts.

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They were the only team in 2017 to attempt at least one fourth down attempt per game average, at least one Fort down a tip per game. Now over the course of the next couple years after that moment, that was a catalyst at that moment of change. The empirical data was continued to be delivered and thrown on the desk of the coaches. It was thrown of their face in the media and it took time. But starting this year in 2020, there are now nine teams over one attempt a game on fourth down that’s right, nine teams average over one attempt on fourth down a game. Let me put this in even more focused perspective for you in 2017, only four 13% of the NFL attempted nearly an attempt to game at 0.7 of attacks per game. On fourth down 13% in 2018, that number Rose to 31% attempting a minimum of a 0.7 attempts per game.

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And there were 10 teams and in 2019 12 teams there represented 38% of the NFL. Now in 2029, teams are over one attempt, a game and 21 teams are at 0.7 or above 21 teams. That’s 65% of the NFL is attempting nearly one attempt to game on fourth down. So in four years, the NFL has gone from four teams tempting, nearly an one attempt on fourth down again, came to 21 teams from 13% to 65%. Two thirds of the NFL in 2020 are attempting nearly one attempt to game on fourth down. This is a significant change in the game of football, significant change. As teams continue to chase the brass ring of a touchdown scoring points. It’s a track race out there on the football field. Scoring points is a priority. It’s a premium. And so to continue drives coaches are realize it with the benefit of the empirical data that’s being placed before them, that they could attempt and they should attempt on Fort down.

Speaker 2 (08:06):

Now what’s the tail of the tape. They might be attempting more for downs, but are they converting them? How about this 13 teams in the NFL right now over half the NFL have a 66 convert 66% conversion rate on fourth down this year in 2020. Let me repeat that for you. 13 teams over half of the NFL are converting at least two thirds of their fourth down attempts. That’s right. Two thirds in 2017, only three teams converted 66% of their attempts. What this tells me is following the 2019 season when the coaches and the quality control staff looked at the game of football, they made a concerted effort and have started to develop a game plan, a targeted game plan for Fort down because now they’re converting it’s 66% over half the league is converting at 66%. It only three teams in 2017. Did I think that’s a great change in a game of football. It’s again, football continues to evolve in over the coming episodes of the line of scrimmage. We’ll look at more trends in the game of football and we’ll watch how the game of football evolves and how it actually rolls to the future by rolling through the past. But I think it’s significant the number of fourth downs that are being attempted and the number of conversions that are happening successfully. Thanks for joining me to talk football trends, rules, and the supremacy of the CFL and NFL. I look forward to talking again next week,