While our community’s reaction to the NFL’s proposal to allow an alternative to the onside kick that sees a scoring team attempt a fourth-and-15 play from their own 25 on an untimed down (that being a last-second addition) was strongly negative, the broader response was far more mixed.
That was also reflected in the fact that an informal straw poll of owners went down the middle, 16-16, as to whether or not they would have voted to pass the rule. What that at least shows, at a bare minimum, is that the league and their owners are interested and engaged in finding some type of alternative to the current onside kick, which under current rules has made it a virtually impossible play to convert, while still being among the most dangerous.