August 20, 2024 • 11 mins
Hour 3 of Tuesday's program begins with a look at the new NFL rules including the enhanced kick-off and the hip drop tackle ban and the early results from NFL Preseason.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Third hour of the program here on sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred the Zone. Glad to be back for the
third and final hour of our daily offering for you.
Glad that you're tuned in and whether that be on
our regular over the air terrestrial signal, it good old
AM thirteen hundred on your dial or online at AM
(00:22):
thirteen under the zone dot com, or on the iHeartRadio app,
or we told you. You can also leave us a voice
message on that using the talk back feature on the
iHeartRadio app. You can do that. All you do is
you pull it up and if you don't already have
the iHeartRadio app, easy and free, completely free, just download
(00:43):
it onto your smartphone and then go to AM thirteen
under the Zone. There's a white button there if you
just want to listen to us. There's a red button
with a little white microphone inside of it. If you
press that button, you can leave us a message up
to thirty seconds about a comment on something, a question, anything,
so feel free to do that of you as always
access us via the text line. You text the word
(01:06):
Texas followed by your question or comment to eight one
five three zero. If the question or comment to eight
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
You mentioned the talkback, Craig, Actually, we did get a
talkback message from a listener if you want to.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Play it real key, is it something we can air?
It actually is something we can. That's that's the other
caveat to this. By the way, make sure it's keep
it clean, something that we can something that we can
air on the Family program. Right, Okay, let's hear it, Craig.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Charles Drnberger with Taktronics. Hey, just want to let you
know and Longhorn fans that we fired up the new
displays in dk R this week. They look great. We're
going to start putting content on. There should be a
great environment this season. I hope you're doing well. It's
good to hear from Charlie Durrenberger. I know I know
(02:04):
Charles he's but I did not.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I did not know him through or because of either
of our associations with the University of Texas. He's a
ut grad but he works for Doctronics. But a long
time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Charles Durremberger
was a sports editor of the newspaper in Sulfur Springs,
Wow and when I was doing the football games every
(02:33):
Friday night on KRLD, our high school game of the Week.
Occasionally we would have a game that involved Sulfur Springs.
The Lake coach James Cameron, who was the coach, really
built up things there at Sulfur Springs and I did
a game between Highland Park and Sulfur Springs there. I
(02:54):
did a playoff game at Texas Stadium between Sulfur Springs
and course at Canna. That's where I got to know Charles,
a great guy, and he works for Doctronics. And that's
good to hear. They're getting everything fired up and ready
to go for this coming football season. That's that's cool.
It's gonna be it's gonna be really nice. There's there's
lots of new and unique, little nuanced things. I know
(03:20):
they were putting several of those things through their paces
last Saturday during the scrimmage, so they were, you know,
getting it ready for the coming season. So it's really
it's good to hear. Thank you, Charles, appreciate you using
That's how you use the talk back feature. Just that's
how easy it is. You have the iHeartRadio app downloaded
(03:41):
on your phone, you go to AM thirteen under the zone.
You'll see that red button with a white microphone. You
push it and you leave us a message, just like
what Charles did. It's as easy as that. And and
I've said this a few times. Going to continue to
remind folks starting next week, which is game week, when
we start giving away a pair of tickets to the
(04:03):
upcoming games. When we start doing that, you're gonna whether
it's a trivia question or it's however it is, it's
going to involve the talkback feature, so you'll have to
do it through the talkback feature in order to win.
So just letting you know that. In events, but it's
really easy to do. I was talking about new things
(04:25):
and nuanced things, and I mentioned this a couple of
days ago. I asked you, Cameron, this was yesterday, in fact,
I asked you how much preseason NFL had you watched
and had you been able to formulate an opinion on
(04:47):
the new kickoff rule? And you said no, and no,
basically you hadn't watched a lot and you hadn't and
what you had seen you hadn't seen enough yet to
formulate an opinion. Is that correct? Okay? All right? You
know this of course, is the final week of the
preseason this week, but there was a piece done by
(05:09):
Kevin Seifferd from ESPN about the new rules changes and
with regard to the kickoff rule. For example, in the
Hall of Fame game, Texans and Bears combined for eight
kickoffs and seven were returned. Only one went for a touchback,
(05:30):
But it's kind of leveled off a little bit. There
were ten kickoffs in the Vikings game with the Browns,
six resulted in touchbacks, only three return So, as Kevin
seiferd road, he said, preseason outcomes of any kind should
always be measured against coaches instincts to cloak strategy until
(05:50):
the regular season, but there has been a fair amount
of genuine experimentation in anticipation of a rule that has
the potential to add one thousand additional plays to the
regular season. Then significantly changed the average starting position of drives,
so the kickoff is he rights no longer really is
(06:11):
a dead playoff sorts, he said. Despite some game by
game variants, the overall trend this summer has been clear.
After NFL teams combine and return just twenty two percent
of kickoffs and allow seventy three percent to end in
touchbacks last year in the regular season. Here's what has
happened league wide so far. Seventy eight percent of kickoffs
(06:31):
have been returned nineteen percent of ended in touchbacks. Keep
in mind the kickoffs were typically returned at a higher
rate in the preseason than during the regular season, but
even so, the rate is up sixty three percent from
this point last year, and the average return has gone
for twenty five yards. It leads from an average drive
starting kickoffs just beyond the twenty eight. For context, in
(06:56):
the final two weeks of last year's preseason, the average
starting position was twenty three, close to the twenty four
yard line, so there was a notable increase in balls
kicked into the end zone from week one forty percent
of Week two, nearly two thirds of the kickoffs have
landed in that what they call the landing zone. That's
(07:17):
the area between the twenty and the goal line. You
think about that, nearly two thirds of those kickoffs have
landed in that landing zone. That's why when you're watching
these games be it on Fox. Watched a little bit
of the Saints forty nine ers on Sunday and then
watched a good chunk of the Packers, Broncos, on NFL
(07:38):
network and in the networks all have gotten the email,
the memo. They've all shaded the landing zone. Even watching
Cowboys preseason games and Texans preseason games. They're all, they're all,
you're looking at that. The first time I flipped over
and I thought it. I thought, and I saw it.
I thought a team had changed its color of its
(08:00):
field in there. That wasn't the case. That's done by television,
just like the electronic or the computer generated down line
the gain. So it's that landing zone. There have been
a handful of miskicks that resulted in a penalty, and
if that happens, the ball is spotted at the forty
yard line. Seven kickoffs have landed short of the twenty
(08:21):
and one has gone out of bounds. So if it
lands short of the twenty, if it goes out of
the bunds coming out to the forty, the new rules
spots a touchback if they kick it through the end
zone at the thirty. That has sparked questions about whether
coaches might ultimately choose the certainty of a touchback rather
than the likely variants of a return. The league's chief
(08:44):
football administrative officer Dawn Aponte said yesterday it's unlikely that
the league will move the touch back further up to
further disincentivize. Man, that's a word, how about that disincentivized kickoff,
and said any other potential tweaks would come in the
next seven to ten days as opposed to during the
(09:06):
regular season. See, I think they should go ahead and
do it. Just make a blanket. If it's not returned,
it's coming out of the forty. If it's a touchback,
it's coming out to the forty. If it goes out
of bounds, it's coming out to the forty. Wow. Right now,
it comes out of the forty if it goes out
of bounds or if it doesn't reach the twenty. And
(09:27):
of course you can't do an on sidekick until the
fourth quarter and you have to announce it events a
lot of people. That's proven to be kind of unpopular. Yeah,
people aren't really happy about that. That hip drop tackle thing. Man,
there's nothing. Nobody's really seen anything on that yet. It
hadn't really done that. The new helmet models have been
(09:51):
kind of fun to see, and there hasn't been much
in the way of replay as well, so that kind
of update you on where it is in the preseason.
There's one. The Cowboys finally get to play a preseason
home game this week, don't they Who are they playing?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I have no clue, no clue.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I don't know why you're asking the wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You said you're not gonna watch unless you just have
it on too, especially not preseason. Yeah, well you said
you wanted to see just in case, you know, if
it you know how it how it might work.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Chargers.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay, okay, it's actually at eleven o'clock at night. Oh wow,
three okay, last okay.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, I started saying really okay, all right, so yeah,
all right, so they're hosting Yeah, they're hosting the Chargers.
Texans are hosting the Rams. Uh Saturday at noon. That
that Cowboys Chargers game is listed in the NFL Network telecast,
But that'll be available on KXCN. We're on the CW
(11:01):
or whatever. It's a part of their family there on that.
I think it'll be on KXN. So that's just something
to take note of if you are interested in what
the Cowboys or Texans are doing. All right, coming up,
we're gonna hear from a long worn coming off of
today's media availability. That's next. We continue on sports Radio
AM thirteen under the Zone in the ir radio app.
Third hour of the program here on sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred the Zone. Glad to be back for the
third and final hour of our daily offering for you.
Glad that you're tuned in and whether that be on
our regular over the air terrestrial signal, it good old
AM thirteen hundred on your dial or online at AM
(00:22):
thirteen under the zone dot com, or on the iHeartRadio app,
or we told you. You can also leave us a voice
message on that using the talk back feature on the
iHeartRadio app. You can do that. All you do is
you pull it up and if you don't already have
the iHeartRadio app, easy and free, completely free, just download
(00:43):
it onto your smartphone and then go to AM thirteen
under the Zone. There's a white button there if you
just want to listen to us. There's a red button
with a little white microphone inside of it. If you
press that button, you can leave us a message up
to thirty seconds about a comment on something, a question, anything,
so feel free to do that of you as always
access us via the text line. You text the word
(01:06):
Texas followed by your question or comment to eight one
five three zero. If the question or comment to eight
one five three zero standard messaging and data rates may apply.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You mentioned the talkback, Craig, Actually, we did get a
talkback message from a listener if you want to.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Play it real key, is it something we can air?
It actually is something we can. That's that's the other
caveat to this. By the way, make sure it's keep
it clean, something that we can something that we can
air on the Family program. Right, Okay, let's hear it, Craig.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Charles Drnberger with Taktronics. Hey, just want to let you
know and Longhorn fans that we fired up the new
displays in dk R this week. They look great. We're
going to start putting content on. There should be a
great environment this season. I hope you're doing well. It's
good to hear from Charlie Durrenberger. I know I know
(02:04):
Charles he's but I did not.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I did not know him through or because of either
of our associations with the University of Texas. He's a
ut grad but he works for Doctronics. But a long
time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Charles Durremberger
was a sports editor of the newspaper in Sulfur Springs,
Wow and when I was doing the football games every
(02:33):
Friday night on KRLD, our high school game of the Week.
Occasionally we would have a game that involved Sulfur Springs.
The Lake coach James Cameron, who was the coach, really
built up things there at Sulfur Springs and I did
a game between Highland Park and Sulfur Springs there. I
(02:54):
did a playoff game at Texas Stadium between Sulfur Springs
and course at Canna. That's where I got to know Charles,
a great guy, and he works for Doctronics. And that's
good to hear. They're getting everything fired up and ready
to go for this coming football season. That's that's cool.
It's gonna be it's gonna be really nice. There's there's
lots of new and unique, little nuanced things. I know
(03:20):
they were putting several of those things through their paces
last Saturday during the scrimmage, so they were, you know,
getting it ready for the coming season. So it's really
it's good to hear. Thank you, Charles, appreciate you using
That's how you use the talk back feature. Just that's
how easy it is. You have the iHeartRadio app downloaded
(03:41):
on your phone, you go to AM thirteen under the zone.
You'll see that red button with a white microphone. You
push it and you leave us a message, just like
what Charles did. It's as easy as that. And and
I've said this a few times. Going to continue to
remind folks starting next week, which is game week, when
we start giving away a pair of tickets to the
(04:03):
upcoming games. When we start doing that, you're gonna whether
it's a trivia question or it's however it is, it's
going to involve the talkback feature, so you'll have to
do it through the talkback feature in order to win.
So just letting you know that. In events, but it's
really easy to do. I was talking about new things
(04:25):
and nuanced things, and I mentioned this a couple of
days ago. I asked you, Cameron, this was yesterday, in fact,
I asked you how much preseason NFL had you watched
and had you been able to formulate an opinion on
(04:47):
the new kickoff rule? And you said no, and no,
basically you hadn't watched a lot and you hadn't and
what you had seen you hadn't seen enough yet to
formulate an opinion. Is that correct? Okay? All right? You
know this of course, is the final week of the
preseason this week, but there was a piece done by
(05:09):
Kevin Seifferd from ESPN about the new rules changes and
with regard to the kickoff rule. For example, in the
Hall of Fame game, Texans and Bears combined for eight
kickoffs and seven were returned. Only one went for a touchback,
(05:30):
But it's kind of leveled off a little bit. There
were ten kickoffs in the Vikings game with the Browns,
six resulted in touchbacks, only three return So, as Kevin
seiferd road, he said, preseason outcomes of any kind should
always be measured against coaches instincts to cloak strategy until
(05:50):
the regular season, but there has been a fair amount
of genuine experimentation in anticipation of a rule that has
the potential to add one thousand additional plays to the
regular season. Then significantly changed the average starting position of drives,
so the kickoff is he rights no longer really is
(06:11):
a dead playoff sorts, he said. Despite some game by
game variants, the overall trend this summer has been clear.
After NFL teams combine and return just twenty two percent
of kickoffs and allow seventy three percent to end in
touchbacks last year in the regular season. Here's what has
happened league wide so far. Seventy eight percent of kickoffs
(06:31):
have been returned nineteen percent of ended in touchbacks. Keep
in mind the kickoffs were typically returned at a higher
rate in the preseason than during the regular season, but
even so, the rate is up sixty three percent from
this point last year, and the average return has gone
for twenty five yards. It leads from an average drive
starting kickoffs just beyond the twenty eight. For context, in
(06:56):
the final two weeks of last year's preseason, the average
starting position was twenty three, close to the twenty four
yard line, so there was a notable increase in balls
kicked into the end zone from week one forty percent
of Week two, nearly two thirds of the kickoffs have
landed in that what they call the landing zone. That's
(07:17):
the area between the twenty and the goal line. You
think about that, nearly two thirds of those kickoffs have
landed in that landing zone. That's why when you're watching
these games be it on Fox. Watched a little bit
of the Saints forty nine ers on Sunday and then
watched a good chunk of the Packers, Broncos, on NFL
(07:38):
network and in the networks all have gotten the email,
the memo. They've all shaded the landing zone. Even watching
Cowboys preseason games and Texans preseason games. They're all, they're all,
you're looking at that. The first time I flipped over
and I thought it. I thought, and I saw it.
I thought a team had changed its color of its
(08:00):
field in there. That wasn't the case. That's done by television,
just like the electronic or the computer generated down line
the gain. So it's that landing zone. There have been
a handful of miskicks that resulted in a penalty, and
if that happens, the ball is spotted at the forty
yard line. Seven kickoffs have landed short of the twenty
(08:21):
and one has gone out of bounds. So if it
lands short of the twenty, if it goes out of
the bunds coming out to the forty, the new rules
spots a touchback if they kick it through the end
zone at the thirty. That has sparked questions about whether
coaches might ultimately choose the certainty of a touchback rather
than the likely variants of a return. The league's chief
(08:44):
football administrative officer Dawn Aponte said yesterday it's unlikely that
the league will move the touch back further up to
further disincentivize. Man, that's a word, how about that disincentivized kickoff,
and said any other potential tweaks would come in the
next seven to ten days as opposed to during the
(09:06):
regular season. See, I think they should go ahead and
do it. Just make a blanket. If it's not returned,
it's coming out of the forty. If it's a touchback,
it's coming out to the forty. If it goes out
of bounds, it's coming out to the forty. Wow. Right now,
it comes out of the forty if it goes out
of bounds or if it doesn't reach the twenty. And
(09:27):
of course you can't do an on sidekick until the
fourth quarter and you have to announce it events a
lot of people. That's proven to be kind of unpopular. Yeah,
people aren't really happy about that. That hip drop tackle thing. Man,
there's nothing. Nobody's really seen anything on that yet. It
hadn't really done that. The new helmet models have been
(09:51):
kind of fun to see, and there hasn't been much
in the way of replay as well, so that kind
of update you on where it is in the preseason.
There's one. The Cowboys finally get to play a preseason
home game this week, don't they Who are they playing?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I have no clue, no clue.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I don't know why you're asking the wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You said you're not gonna watch unless you just have
it on too, especially not preseason. Yeah, well you said
you wanted to see just in case, you know, if
it you know how it how it might work.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Chargers.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay, okay, it's actually at eleven o'clock at night. Oh wow,
three okay, last okay.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, I started saying really okay, all right, so yeah,
all right, so they're hosting Yeah, they're hosting the Chargers.
Texans are hosting the Rams. Uh Saturday at noon. That
that Cowboys Chargers game is listed in the NFL Network telecast,
But that'll be available on KXCN. We're on the CW
(11:01):
or whatever. It's a part of their family there on that.
I think it'll be on KXN. So that's just something
to take note of if you are interested in what
the Cowboys or Texans are doing. All right, coming up,
we're gonna hear from a long worn coming off of
today's media availability. That's next. We continue on sports Radio
AM thirteen under the Zone in the ir radio app.
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