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The NFL has decided to push back the one-point extra point to the 15, converting the try from a 19-yard kick to a 32-yarder. The league’s V.P. of officiating now says that it could be pushed back even farther.

Via Bob Glauber of Newsday, the NFL will consider an additional change if the conversion rate doesn’t fall significantly below 99 percent.

During last year’s limited experiment in the preseason with the PAT snap from the 15, kickers made 94.3 percent of the extra points.

The goal is to make a meaningless, perfunctory play more meaningful. Some think there’s a better way to do it than to make it what will still be a mostly automatic field goal.

“Narrowing the uprights would make it a lot more challenging than moving the extra point,” Broncos kicker Connor Barth told Nicki Jhabvala of the Denver Post. “Most guys can hit 33-yarders in their sleep.”

(Be careful what you wish for, Barth.)

Regardless, tinkering with the extra point will place more of a premium on making shorter kicks.

“It would weed out the strong-legged kickers who aren’t accurate,” Barth said. “It would make our value go up.”

And by weeding out kickers with stronger legs who aren’t accurate, NFL teams may end up being less inclined to try longer field goals, opting instead to go for it on fourth down.