Eagles defensive coach Vic Fangio says new rules giving NFL kickers more time to prepare the balls they use helps them make longer kicks.

The rule change, Jansen said, gives the specialists the same amount of control over and familiarity with the footballs they decide to use as every other position already had. In 1999, the NFL moved to mandate use of unopened K-balls as a reaction to some of the treatments equipment managers and specialists were using to manipulate their footballs.

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Chief among those critics has been President Donald Trump, who posted his thoughts on Truth Social Monday, urging the NFL to get rid of that “ridiculous looking” rule and saying it was “at least as dangerous” as the old version of kickoffs despite what the NFL statistics say.

He was just two days removed from his team allowing a 65-yard field goal, the longest outdoor kick in NFL history, so maybe Vic Fangio was still venting. Fangio has been coaching football since 1979,

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Fangio is correct that a small change in preparing the K-ball has made a big difference for kickers' weekly processes across the NFL, but several special teams coaches told ESPN that they think Fangio's comments are an exaggeration. The data doesn't support his argument that kicking has entered into the equivalent of a steroid era.