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00:00 the season. KC special teams
00:08 coordinator Dave Tobe, making
00:10 an interesting point yesterday
00:13 at O. T A s in Kansas City,
00:13 maybe replacing your usual
00:16 kicker. Harrison Bunker losing
00:18 his job. Maybe he'll figure out
00:20 some other things to do for
00:22 Justin Reed with the new kick
00:23 off rules in the National
00:25 Football League. Now read has
00:27 kicked actual kickoffs and
00:29 he's going to be in a bad spot
00:31 either way. You know, I'm
00:33 talking about the kicker,
00:34 yourself and Donnie, you said,
00:36 But if you have Bunker or any
00:37 other kicker out there for your
00:38 team, and he has to make the
00:41 tackle. Then you're going to be
00:43 in a bad spot. Either way. The
00:44 reason this could be different,
00:46 though, is because the other
00:47 defenders, the other 10 guys on
00:49 the field on that kickoff
00:51 defense do not get to take off
00:53 under the new kickoff rules
00:55 until the ball leaves the foot
00:57 of the kicker. They don't get
00:58 to take off. They don't get to
01:00 take off until the kicker
01:01 leaves the foot of the kicker
01:03 after the kicker watches the
01:04 ball sale, probably more than
01:06 likely through the end zone. So
01:08 if you had the kicker who was
01:09 an athlete and a safety and an
01:11 offensive player like Justin
01:12 Reed, kick it and then
01:14 immediately start to catch up
01:16 as well. He's immediately
01:18 involved in any of the tackling
01:20 or the defense of that kickoff
01:22 return, which is very
01:23 different systematically than
01:24 what we were used to seeing in
01:27 the past. The biggest play in
01:29 professional sports is the
01:31 kickoff in football when 15 to
01:33 20 years ago, it was one of the
01:34 more entertaining plays in
01:36 sports. So something had to be
01:38 done. And so many times we rag
01:39 on the NFL. These rules stink.
01:41 You're taking hitting out of
01:42 the game. This is one of those
01:43 rules that I equate to Major
01:44 League Baseball and Rob
01:45 Manfred stepped in and said,
01:47 this game is stale as hell.
01:48 Something has to happen to move
01:49 the pace along. This should be
01:51 able to do that. No longer just
01:52 going upstairs to grab a beer
01:54 and coming back knowing it's
01:55 been a touchback. You might
01:56 have to do that. But it's
01:57 something that's going to
01:58 change the way we think about
01:59 the plays of the game. It
02:02 brings back the kick returner
02:04 position. Keep an eye for the
02:06 Eagles on a guy like I don't
02:08 know. Whoa Gene, who is
02:10 electric with the football in
02:11 his hands. Can you imagine big
02:14 will ship Lee back there
02:17 together? Now? Now man, take a
02:18 look under those legs and you
02:22 might be. Oh, surprise. Oh,
02:25 my God. I'm not sure I can get
02:28 up. I'm not sure I can get out
02:28 of the lake. I'm sure. Listen,
02:31 the New York Jets making an
02:33 intriguing signing earlier this
02:35 week to recoat former running
02:36 back for the Bears, who was one
02:38 of the fastest guys in the
02:39 National Football League that
02:41 based on injuries hasn't played
02:43 in the NFL since 2020, the Jets
02:45 bringing him back, hoping to
02:47 reincorporate him now with
02:47 these new kickoff rules, it
02:50 brings back jobs. It brings
02:53 back a skill skilled position,
02:55 and it brings back a career.
02:56 It brings back a career. It's
02:58 the fun of special teams.
03:00 Coordinated for this is the fun