Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. These are columns on the ideas they believe in strongly, even if it makes the rest of the room groan during our pitch meetings. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week.
Every time a game is decided by a last-second field goal—make or miss—I revert back to my worst take. I know this would never realistically happen, but I always argue with my dad about it and now share it for The MMQB’s Bad Takes Week: Kickers have no place in football.