The league had to implement the new kickoff rules because the previous version had become so bad and boring that the kickoff was at risk of being completely removed from the game.

“Now, there was obviously a conversation about the kickoff being removed from the game completely if the special teams coordinators did not figure out how to save the play. And if you lose the kickoff, what's going to happen to punt? What's going to happen to special teams?”

The new kickoff rules will provide electricity because special teams coaches are still experimenting and have not yet revealed their full game plans.

“I think there's going to be moments this season wherever we see some more magic that we wouldn't have seen over the last few years as they have changed the kickoff rules to what they were that got so bad, so boring that they actually thought about eliminating the kickoff completely because of how ba”