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Pat Kirwin and Jim Miller have been proposing their own kickoff rule change on NFL Radio's Moving the Chains show for the past few months since talk of even eliminating the kickoff has percolated. They propose replacing the kickoff with a punt. Far fewer impactful collisions take place on a punt. And instead of an onside kick the team could run a fake punt and could retain the ball if advancing it a designated ten or fifteen yards. The percentage chance of its success would probably be around the same with basically the same downside of a failed onside kick.

I see this as a far better solution than simply giving the ball to the other team without any interactive play.

Understand, of course, Kirwin and Miller (and myself) would rather not see the kickoff disappear at all.

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