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The owners have spoken; the extra-point has been moved from the two to the 15, making the single-point attempt a 32-yard field goal. Kickers will now begin speaking. And most of them won’t like the change.

“I think the idea is to add excitement to every single play, but really what it does is make every kicker’s job a little bit harder,” Ravens kicker Justin Tucker told the team’s official website.

It gets even harder for kickers who play outdoors in cold-weather climates.

“We play in the AFC North and we play almost every single game outside,” Tucker said. “This is a tough division to play football in in general. It takes maybe a little bit more mental toughness than playing in a dome 10 games a year.”

Tucker nevertheless welcomes the challenge.

“The guys that do well with it, it increases their value,” Tucker said. “Guys that are good kickers will find a way to adjust and get the job done. And that’s what I plan on doing. . . . For me, it just means I get more field goals in games. The only difference is it’s a 33-yard field goal worth one point. That’s how I’m going to look at it.”

It also means more high-stakes field goals, with those perfunctory game-tying extra points in the fourth quarter becoming something less than automatic. Tucker made one of those single-point kicks at the end of the playoff game in Denver in January 2013, which Baltimore eventually won in double overtime. Under the new rule, it would have been a lot more challenging.

“What if I slipped and doinked it off the upright?” Tucker said. “Then we don’t go and win the Super Bowl. It’s as simple as that.”

Or maybe the Ravens would have opted to ride the momentum after Jacoby Jones somehow got behind the defense for a long touchdown, gone for two, made it, and won the game without playing another full quarter plus more in order to win the game. That’s why hypotheticals applicable to the old rule don’t matter. The goal is to make the single-point try more difficult, which in turn will make the two-pointer more attractive.

Which doesn’t simply make the job of the kicker harder. It makes the job of the coach harder, too.