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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1045257" data-attributes="member: 7261">It wasn't written very well, I had to read it twice and slowly, before I understood it.Think of it this way, the "penalty" for a kickoff out of bounds is spotting the ball 25 yards from where it is kicked.  So if the kickoff is from the normal 35 and kicked out of bounds, the ball is spotted at the receiving teams 40 (25 yards from where it was kicked).  If you kick from the 50, which the Texans did and it goes out of bounds, the ball is spotted at the other teams 25.In the case on Sunday, the 15 yard personnel foul on the Packers, after the FG, was enforced on the kickoff, allowing the Texans to kick from the 50.  Had they kicked it into the EZ, the ball gets spotted at the 30.  What Fairbairn and the Texans were correctly trying to do, is kick it as close to the corner of the field (near EZ) as possible, maybe forcing a return or at worse, going out of bounds and spotting the ball at the 25.  Very smart play on their part.What I still don't understand, is if you watch the kickoff, one of the Texans moved early and it wasn't flagged.Let's just say the whole sequence had me scratching my head.</blockquote>

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