{"id":10581,"date":"2024-10-11T05:53:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T05:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=10581"},"modified":"2024-10-11T05:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T05:53:51","slug":"breaking-jason-kelce-has-proposed-a-significant-rule-change-for-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=10581","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Jason Kelce has proposed a significant rule change for the NFL."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Former\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/span>\u00a0center\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Jason Kelce<\/span>\u00a0apparently wants to take the &#8216;foot&#8217; out of football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On the latest episode of his &#8216;New Heights&#8217; podcast alongside his brother and\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Kansas<\/span>\u00a0City Chiefs tight end\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Travis Kelce<\/span>, Jason went off on what he deems to be the scourge of the league: kickers making too many field goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Eagles great, who\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">jokingly took credit for Travis&#8217; recent return to form<\/span>, ranted about how easy it&#8217;s become for kickers to knock through field goals of exceeding distance &#8211; even suggesting they should do away with the position altogether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Kickers are making 60-yarders like it&#8217;s routine, we need to narrow these field goals,&#8217; Jason said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s too easy to kick field goals now. 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That is not what football is about,&#8217; Jason continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Me and [former Eagles linebacker] Connor Barwin said this like ten years ago: we need to get specialists out of the NFL. Just kickers and long snappers, freakin&#8217; punter ruined the game.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Travis intervened saying: &#8216;What everything&#8217;s gotta be a Hail Mary now? It adds excitement to the game.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Jason was having none of it: &#8216;Just throw the ball through the uprights. Why do we have to have this guy come out here and kick it? That doesn&#8217;t belong on the football field.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He then went further by suggesting that instead of sending it through the uprights, kickers should &#8216;just have a big one post and you just gotta hit the post, that&#8217;s three points.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I don&#8217;t want these guys going out in soccer shoes and you can&#8217;t touch &#8217;em and we&#8217;re make[ing] believe that this is a football play.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-82b775ae7d1f008d\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/10\/14\/90696101-13945617-image-a-101_1728565938626.jpg\" alt=\"Kelce proposed contracting the uprights down to rugby post size - making it 2 inches skinnier\" width=\"634\" height=\"1037\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Kelce proposed contracting the uprights down to rugby post size &#8211; making it 2 inches skinnier<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d0c08e59b837713c\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/10\/10\/14\/90695759-13945617-image-a-100_1728565221771.jpg\" alt=\"Jason's brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, disagreed with his stance\" width=\"634\" height=\"415\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Jason&#8217;s brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, disagreed with his stance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Travis disagreed, saying: &#8216;Hey, Harry [Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker]&#8217;s won me a lot of football games man.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Well yeah, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re pro-kickers &#8217;cause you got a great kicker,&#8217; Jason said before giving props to his former kicker, Jake Elliott of the Eagles. &#8216;He&#8217;s a great kicker too, I just disagree with everything about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Considering that kicking the football has been a part of the game since its inception, it&#8217;s not likely that the NFL would ever take this suggestion seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That wasn&#8217;t the only topic of discussion between the brothers &#8211; with the pair\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">also discussing the recent situation with reporters in the locker room<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles\u00a0center\u00a0Jason Kelce\u00a0apparently wants to take the &#8216;foot&#8217; out of football. 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