Great point, Rojo. The responses on here show why this type of tactical maneuvering is 10 years away. Maaaaybe 5. You literally show the 82%/74% stat, but still people just blast the idea. If he did miss on purpose, a coach would get fired for this, unless the owner is some kind of enlightened stats maverick. I'm guessing Jerry Jones isn't that guy. Maybe he is. More likely to find Mark Cuban supporting that move than Jerry Jones.



Once people start exploiting this tactic, I wonder if the league will actually give a team up by 3 some extra incentive to go for the point. Otherwise, a portion of the game will be clearly kind of pointless. I guess the extra point is already a pointless formality 99.5% of the time. So a team taking a knee, another common maneuver, will be totally fine. But, it would be interesting to ponder a rule like: for a team leading by 3 before the extra point, attempting the point will remove 'x' amount of time from the clock (only applies in the final 3 minutes, and probably needs to be pro-rated or a percentage of the clock).



Another thought: I think kicking the extra point or not actually depends on who the opposing quarterback is. If the opposing team has a great defense and Ryan Lindley, I think I'll take the extra point. Otherwise, I could get burned by some non-offensive special teams fluke, either in OT or regulation. If they're so-so on D but have Aaron Rodgers, I think I might consider tempting them into a field goal by missing the extra point, and then potentially taking another crack in overtime.



Of course, probably the first thing the league needs to do, if it really cared about being fair and adaptable in ways that greatly affected human lives, would be to address the head trauma and PED scandals that seem to intertwine enough to warrant serious soul-searching. You've advocated for HGH testing and the importance of NFL drug testing, which I applaud you for. So I only include this paragraph because even though I love your point, I think on some moral level it's important to not lose sight of the more marginalized but important issues that the league goes to great lengths to deny and cover-up.