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How Can the NFL Make Punting Plays Better?

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The NFL is crowd-sourcing ideas to “modernize” the punt. The campaign is partly an opportunity to make punt plays safer and, frankly, more watchable in light of the absurd amount of penalty flags thrown on punts. And it’s partly a chance for Rich McKay and Co. to show those millennials that the NFL competition committee can be just as hip as those insta-facing, snap-booking Ariana Grande-types, right dudes and dudettes?

With that in mind, here are The MMQB’s suggestions, which range from pretty good to utterly mad to objectively terrible to for the love of Hekker, give us a taek instead of all that well-thought-out logic, Breer!