Should icing the kicker be banned?

[vhawk01]

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Basically, there's lots of things that can go wrong, and you improve you chances of some of them when you let the kicker think about the entire situation for a minute.

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This line of thinking has always bothered me about icing the kicker. It's completely illogical. You're giving a professional athlete extra time to prepare to do an act that he is paid to do. Why would that hurt him?

If Phil Dawson is kicking from the Oakland dirt, why would he do worse on the second attempt? If anything he should do better, having had a practice shot at kicking from the dirt.

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And as far as I know the data backs you up.