Two months ago when the initial proposals were floated through the NFL Competition Committee, SI's Peter King reported near unanimity among NFL ownership that the extra point, as it exists, is no good.
1,230 extra points were attempted in 2014. 1,222 were successful. That's a 99.3% success rate. A year prior, it was 99.6%. Put bluntly, extra points are boring because they're so easy. Bear in mind, the NFL moved extra points back from a 20-yard kick to a 38-yard attempt from the 20-yard line for two weeks last year in the preseason. Kickers still succeeded at a 94.