Jason Kelce proposes major NFL rule change

Former Philadelphia Eagles halfway Jason Kelce seemingly wants to instrumentality the 'foot' retired of football.

On the latest occurrence of his 'New Heights' podcast alongside his member and Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce, Jason went disconnected astir what helium deems to beryllium the scourge of the league: kickers making excessively galore tract goals.

In this episode, Jason went disconnected connected however casual it's go for kickers to sound done tract goals of exceeding region - adjacent suggesting that they should bash distant with the presumption altogether.

'Kickers are making 60-yarders similar it's routine, we request to constrictive these tract goals,' Jason said.

'It's excessively casual to footwear tract goals now. We gotta spell to rugby goalposts. Kickers should not beryllium influencing shot games arsenic overmuch arsenic they are close now.'

For reference, the wrong of the posts successful rugby national spans 5.6 meters (18 feet, 4.4 inches), portion an NFL extremity station spans... 5.64m (18 feet, 6 inches).

'We request to marque kickers mode little valuable. That is not what shot is about.

'Me and [former Eagles linebacker] Connor Barwin said this similar 10 years ago: we request to get specialists retired of the NFL. Just kickers and agelong snappers, freakin' punter ruined the game.'

His member Travis intervened saying, 'What everything's gotta beryllium a Hail Mary now? It adds excitement to the game.' 

Jason was having nary of it: 'Just propulsion the shot done the uprights. Why bash we person to person this feline travel retired present and footwear it? That doesn't beryllium connected the shot field.'

Jason went further, suggesting that alternatively of kicking it done the uprights that they should 'just person a large 1 station and you conscionable gotta deed the post, that's 3 points.'

'I don't privation these guys going retired successful shot shoes and you can't interaction 'em and we're make[ing] judge that this is simply a shot play.'

Travis disagreed, saying, 'Hey, Harry [Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker]'s won maine a batch of shot games man.'

'Well yeah, I'm definite you're pro-kickers 'cause you got a large kicker,' Jason said earlier giving props to his erstwhile kicker, Jake Elliott of the Eagles. 'He's a large kicker too, I conscionable disagree with everything astir it.'

Considering that kicking the shot has been a portion of the crippled since its inception, it's not apt that the NFL would ever instrumentality this proposition seriously.

That wasn't the lone taxable of treatment betwixt the brothers - with the brace also discussing the caller concern with reporters successful the locker room.