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Rule change three months too late to save Justin Tucker's perfect season

It must have been a frustrating day for Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker.

The one proposal he supported got rejected at the NFL owners meetings on Tuesday. Another one got passed three months too late to save a perfect season.

NFL owners formally banned players from leaping over the line of scrimmage to block kicks, which is how Tucker's only miss of the 2016 season occurred. On Dec. 12, Tucker's 34-yard field goal attempt was swatted down by a perfectly timed jump by New England's Shea McClellin.

This ruined Tucker's chance to become only the fourth qualified kicker in NFL history to make all of his field goals and extra points in a season.