Kickers are making longer and longer field goals. Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has an explanation for the sudden uptick in ridiculously long three-pointers.

“You know what you guys have missed?” Fangio said during a Tuesday press conference, unprompted by any question. “Not just you but everybody is. We gave up a 65-yard field goal and a 58-yard field goal [against the Buccaneers]. These kicking balls that they changed this year have drastically changed the kicking game, field goals in particular. So it’s almost like they need an asterisk here. It was the live ball era or the asterisk for those home runs [Barry] Bonds and [Sammy] Sosa and [Mark] McGwire were hitting. The way they’ve changed the ball. The NFL, the kicking ball has drastically changed the field goals.”

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