NFL Kickers' Remarkable Success

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Have NFL kickers gotten so good a rule change is in order?

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Never before have NFL kickers made 89.7% of their 50-plus -yard field goals during the opening two weeks of the season .

As recently as 2006 , they made only 40 field goals from that distance in an entire season .

Today ’s young kickers often specialize in position as early as middle school and benefit from private lessons.

A decade ago , kickers became so automatic booting extra points that the NFL competition committee began exploring the need for change.

The NFL increased the distance of extra points to 33 yards and narrowed the width of the goal posts from 18 feet , 6 inches to 14 feet .

Ex-NFL kicker Mike Hollis says he rarely had a full-time long snapper when he played for the Jacksonville Jaguars .

Novak says he doesn't see a need to make field goal kicking harder than it already is.

Novak: “I think guys would adapt and overcome and be just as good as they are now.” The evidence of how good NFL kickers are has come in bunches in the past two weeks .

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