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Mike Pereira offers his take on eliminating all kickoffs in the NFL.
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-- -- Bowl the next big thing is they're brought to you by the Samsung Galaxy note too. Am Mike Pereira week fourteen in the National Football League let's talk about kick offs. -- -- -- Hey you know what all week long they're talking about get rid of the kick off Roger Goodell encouraged. Us to look at some video please. Let's go right at Giants Stadium at all. But those in attendance the commissioner. And ignorance is his -- to get rid of me is. C'mon please watch this we're gonna have a return of 97. Yards. For a touchdown. We wanna get rid of this play this doesn't make much sense to me the Giants had a team record. 287. Yards worth of kickoff returns on Sunday. John -- sits on the competition committee. You think he's gonna wanna get rid of this rule look at good change last year when they moved to kick off line back to the 35. There were 80% of kick off return in 2010. Move in the kicked in the 35 last year only 53%. Of kickoffs were returned. And the result. 40%. Reduction in concussions. That great progress but eliminating the play in its entirety. There were a 128. Kick off returns on Sunday during the day you know how many injuries we saw major injuries we saw. Example. So to get rid of the kickoffs I think I gotta give credit to my good friend Jim Mora who said. -- Playoffs of course. It's.