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Dr_Football posted...

i will add that teams really need to try something different on onside kicks

kickers need to practice kicking hard low line drives at players and hoping it hits them and takes a bounce back towards your team

Don't see how that would work even in a surprise situation. You're either kicking the ball with enough force that, worst case scenario, the players get down/out of the way and let it go out of bounds, or it goes downfield too far where the kicking team has no chance to recover.

I don't see why the NFL doesn't have a rule to re-allow running starts specifically for onside attempts though.

Edit: I guess I didn't consider that you can set the ball on it's side when teeing it up, but I imagine that would tip the recovering team off as to what was about to take place.