We were talking about our mutual feeling that any intentional kneel-down play by a quarterback should not be counted as a running play, like it is currently, but rather as a team stat reflecting intentionally lost rushing yards.
Because the kneel-down is a voluntary surrender of yardage, it seems unfair to punish the quarterback's or the team's rushing stats. Such a change would bring the stat in line with some other statistical anomalies in other sports. For example, a sacrifice bunt in baseball does not count as an at-bat on the batter's stats.
I am surprised this has not happened yet, but maybe this change will take place in the future.