Jason Kelce offered several suggestions for improving the game of football, many of which involved either having kickers banned or making their lives miserable.
While many fans no doubt agree with the elder Kelce, the tirade prompted his brother Travis to step in and defend his own kicker.
Jason, the former Philadelphia Eagles center, went on an epic rant suggesting the kicking game has become too easy, shouldn’t affect games, isn’t real football, and should essentially be banned from the NFL.
“It’s too easy to kick field goals now. We gotta go to rugby goalposts. Kickers should not be influencing football games as much as they are right now,” he said.
“We need to make kickers way less valuable. That is not what football is about.”
And he isn’t discriminating. He wants all kickers to get the boot. Punters too. Even those involved in the punting game like long snappers.
“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’ punter ruined the game,” Jason said.
Travis Kelce Defends Kickers
Travis Kelce played devil’s advocate in defending kickers after his brother tossed out the idea that they should be banned.
“What – everything’s gotta be a Hail Mary now? It adds excitement to the game,” he insisted.
Jason wasn’t having it. And he offered up several other ideas to help improve the game. Such as having somebody throw the ball instead of kicking it.
“Just throw the ball through the uprights. Why do we have to have this guy come out here and kick it? That doesn’t belong on the football field,” he said.
My favorite suggestion of all? One big post for players to aim at. The league, he believes, should “just have a big one post and you just gotta hit the post, that’s three points.”
“I don’t want these guys going out in soccer shoes and you can’t touch ’em and we’re make[ing] believe that this is a football play.”
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Definitely Doesn’t Want His Banned
At this point in the conversation, Travis Kelce felt it was necessary to defend his own kicker from Jason’s onslaught. He definitely doesn’t want kickers banned. Especially his own. The Kansas City Chiefs’ Harrison Butker is one of the best in the game.
“Hey, Harry’s [Harrison Butker] won me a lot of football games man,” he declared.
Over the summer, Butker became the highest-paid kicker in NFL history. And it was well-deserved. The four-year extension is worth a total of $25.6 million, with $17.75 million guaranteed.
That is one valuable right leg Jason Kelce wants to be banned.
Butker has made 94 percent of his extra points and 89 percent of his field goals across his career. Last season, he was perfect on all 38 of his extra points and missed just two field goals.
While he has been Kansas City’s field goal specialist for all of its recent Super Bowls (three-time champion), he had perhaps the best postseason of his career last year.
He is the current record holder for the longest field goal in Super Bowl history after drilling a 57-yard field goal with 20 seconds left in the first half of last year’s showcase game. The Chiefs went on to a 25-22 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII.
The kicker, of course, provided the 3-point margin of victory and Super Bowl glory.
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