2 Football questions

[brockguy]

Please don't abuse me for my big time ignorance on this but 2 questions about the NFL that has got me thinking over the last few weeks:

1. Why are the kickers so bad?- they truly are awful! The Bengals kicker and the Arizona guy at the end of their game spring to mind just this weekend- they get paid, what half a million a year to perfect kicking a ball through a post! They should be missing a lot less than they do-

2. Why do teams not go for 2point conversions more often? Does anyone have stats on how often they succeed doing it? Take Green Bay last week as an example - when they were 14 points down, they scored a TD so they are 8 down now. I thought the coach should have gone for 2. If they missed it, well they are still 1score away from levelling the game, if they get it (and with the Arizona D the way it was, they probably would have got it) they are only 6 down and a TD and PAT would win it! The college coaches seem to do it a lot more for some reason!!

Anyway, if anyone can answer those questions, I'd be very happy! If not, I can wait for the World Cup to start in June for real football :-)