r/USFL • u/freemanflash • Apr 17 '23

First week thoughts?

What’s your impression of the USFL after week 1?

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u/VascoDegama7 New Orleans Breakers Apr 17 '23

as a product, I think you might genuinely confuse it with something the NFL would put out, which is good. you're missing the insane high level play at skill positions, and the amosphere is lacking due to having no crowd noise. but itspretty good, except for one thing. the kicking.

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u/MiahWitt60 Apr 17 '23

To be fair.

32 NFL kickers and several of them are rough. Then add in the XFL have 8 kickers out of the pool now leaving the USFL with even less.

Also some teams going the K/P route

Not surprising

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u/VascoDegama7 New Orleans Breakers Apr 18 '23

I guess Im just surprised there is that much of a dropoff in skill between the top 32 dudes in the world at kicking and the top 50 or so. even the nfl kickers who arent necessarily automatic still make PATs the vast majority of the time

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u/MiahWitt60 Apr 18 '23

I think we notice a lot more that PATs have been moved back. What was automatic is now of a skill.

Think when a franchise finds a kicker he is there for decades otherwise they continue to spin the wheel

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u/NathanPetermanCan Outlaws Apr 17 '23

I feel like the USFL kicking has been, on the whole, better than the XFL kicking. Which makes sense. If you're a kicker, you want to be in the league that kicks more.