Over this last off season, there have been a few changes made to the game of football in the NFL. This time, we are focusing on the change from point after touchdown attempts being moved from the two yard line to the fifteen yard line. While this may not seem like much, going for two after the touchdowns has not moved either. This change just goes to show that no one is safe with the new commissioner in charge. I personally don't like the new rule, but there are many that say that this change was long overdue.

Ever since the rule change, the success rate of point after touchdown attempts have dropped drastically. Before the rule change, it was considered a 'gimme', where teams made 98 percent of their 'free points'. After the change, however, that percentage has dropped drastically. The 'gimme' points that usually only missed if someone tripped, the snap was dropped (*cough cough Tony Romo cough cough*), or if the kick was blocked has become more of a challenge now. That percentage has now dropped to 93 percent, and the change in accuracy has been because the longer distance is causing some kickers problems.

Many of the kickers in today's NFL games are simply two things: overrated, and overpaid. It is not simply a statement, the simple fact is that it is the truth. Most of these players, if you can call them that, are responsible for ONE thing. They KICK. A. BALL. For a living! If someone came up to me and offered me over two million dollars a year to KICK A DAMN BALL, you had better believe that all I would do with my life, until the paychecks stopped rolling is, is PRACTICING to KICK A BALL. If nothing else, I would be able to kick the most common and necessary field goal possible. The point after attempts. I would not miss a single one. Do you know why? Because it would be MY JOB to KICK. THAT. BALL.

If I am sounding cold about the subject, just stop and think about the scenario. You have been training to kick this field goal for years. Your entire livelihood depends on you kicking this ball. You have no other job on the team than to kick a ball. You are paid to kick a ball. You are only employed because the team trusts you to kick a ball. Now, finally, you have your chance to kick the ball and win the game. It is do or die, and you are the one chosen to go out there and represent all of your team's hard work for the day. I do not care how nervous you are, your JOB is to kick a ball, and if you can't do that almost every time you go out there, I don't care what the excuse is. You don't deserve to be employed by that organization. This has been a report on the abysmal state of some kickers in the NFL, brought to you by Mason Hoover.