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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1045328" data-attributes="member: 7261">That wasn't my point and I doubt they would have returned the ball to the 40.My point was to explain the rule for a kick out of bounds penalty, which the Texans were vary aware of and took advantage of.I think many of us assumed a kick out of bounds automatically put the ball at the 40.  That isn't the case, the ball is spotted 25 yards away from where it was kicked.  Had the Texans committed the PF penalty and it was enforced on their kickoff, instead of kicking at the 50, they would have been kicking from their own 20.  A kick out of bounds would have given the Packers the ball on the Texans 45 yard line.Now that I type that out, I understand why they made the rule "25 yards from where the ball is kicked".  If it automatically got spotted at the 40, teams kicking from the 20, after such a penalty, would probably just kick the ball out of bounds.</blockquote>

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