Kansas City Chiefs coach responds to Trump's criticism of NFL kickoff rule: 'He has no idea what's going on'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Independent

Kansas City Chiefs assistant head coach Dave Toub has brushed off President Trump’s criticisms of recent changes to the NFL’s kickoff rules.

“He doesn’t even know what he’s looking at,” Toub said at a press conference on Thursday, eliciting a laugh from the gathered reporters. “He has no idea what’s going on with the kickoff rule, so I’m going to take that for what it’s worth. I hope he hears it.”

Throughout this year, President Trump has railed against the league’s new kickoff rules that prevent the kicking team from moving forward until the ball lands or is caught by a returner on the opposing side.

During an interview earlier this month on The Pat McAfee Show, Trump said the new ”Dynamic Kickoff” rules, first introduced last year, have made the game “unromantic” and are “demeaning to football.”

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-chiefs-nfl-kickoff-rule-b2869565.html

[Bread and Circuses]

1. ??? Unromantic. More details , pleas

[highplainsdem]

3. Trump also said, as quoted in the next paragraph, that the new rule "hurts the pageantry."

[newdeal2]

8. He wants to romance that little piggy

I mean the ball.

[Deuxcents]

2. TSF has to..he just has to push his own agenda into every aspect of our lives because he knows everything

And only he can fix things whether they need fixing or not. Could he just stfu and ride out his term?

[Diamond_Dog]

4. I don't ever again want to hear Republicans blabber about "small government."

As you said, Deuxcents. That orange criminal has to push his agenda into every aspect of our lives! The day he is gone can’t come soon enough for me.

[Deuxcents]

5. He is constantly in our face about what *he* thinks, what *he*wants to do and what the rest of us has to do

Day and night and it’s exhausting, chaotic and mostly destructive. I’m waiting on the cure for this madness

[Diamond_Dog]

10. Yep, he has to stick his nose and his demands into literally EVERYTHING about our everyday lives.

Small government my ass …..I am so sick of him …… the ignorant orange slob has had to be front and center in our lives for ten years. I can still remember when we had a competent, compassionate President that just did his job well and you didn’t even have to concern yourself with any nefarious bullshit, when it was a given your President was doing a good job for the American people and you didn’t even have to think about it. I can’t wait till we return to that.

[Silent Type]

6. Hope the assistant coach doesn't get threatened.

[Clouds Passing]

7. Uh, less players injured Dumpy

[underpants]

9. He's never gotten over NOT being an NFL owner.

He wanted it so desperately.

He didn’t have to money to be an NFL owner. None. The Maras, Hunts, and Rooneys would never let that happen. This is aside from his owning and somehow failing at casinos. He was still able to run a football league into the ground. That WAS rule numero uno with Rozelle. Jesus what has the NFL and ESPN become?

He also lost money selling red meat to Americans.

[BaronChocula]

11. Glad that someone from the Chiefs

Doesn't have their head in the sand.

[C Moon]

12. For those who don't know, the old kick off was brutal.

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It allowed for the kicking team to be in full sprint when they reached the guy catching the ball. He had to decide whether to call a fair catch (and the ball would be placed where caught which kept him from not get clobbered by some guy running full sprint at him), or catch it and run.

Lots of injuries on the old style kickoffs—including concussions.

Side note: In high school football, I was on a kicking team, and a defender clipped me from the side (threw his body at the side of my knee). Stretched the ligament badly. The knee swung inward and then back. No tear. But it gave me a sickening feeling in my stomach I'll never forget. I don't know how these NFL guys do it.

[Ponietz]

17. I was on the kickoff team when I was 13 and a helmet to helmet hit with the ball carrier knocked me out cold

I switched to soccer. Never looked back.

[radicalleft]

18. Was a fair catch allowed on a kickoff return?

I know it was for punt, but I thought KO was either catch it and run or down it...

[C Moon]

19. I had to look it up.

I guess because the ball gets there so much earlier than a punt, it’s not used very often but a fair catch is permitted on a kickoff (from what I read).

[JoseBalow]

13. drumpf is a dipshit

Just a blathering idiot, without a clue. Never does a day go by without that halfwit uttering something moronic.

[Seinan Sensei]

14. Did Donnie ever play football?

Nope
I did see a pic of him posing with an “also participated” trophy from Summer Camp
Perhaps for Beanbag-Baseball
Maybe for Lawn Darts.

[C Moon]

15. Like the first pitch in a baseball game, they should have trump receive the first kickoff in a game.

[Lemon Lyman]

16. -

Dave Toub is the best special teams coach in the NFL. I'm a BEARS fan. He was with the BEARS during the Lovie Smith years. They always had outstanding special teams. Devin Hester didn't hurt.

He should've gotten more of a chance to be a head coach in the league. Very few special teams coaches get head coaching opportunities (John Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens is one). Teams want the hot offensive coordinator or the hot defensive coordinator when they're hiring a new head coach.

[Boomerproud]

20. The Hunt family is ultra MAGA.

It will be interesting to see if this assistant coach is unscathed after those remarks.