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The new “dynamic” kickoff has brought returns back to life, with balls landing in the target zone, returners breaking big gains, and coaches experimenting with risky tactics like the wobbling “dirty ball” to pin offenses deep, but it is also warping field position, inflating late-game scoring chances, and forcing teams to rethink whether touchbacks are actually safer. As the numbers shift and some coaches already abandon the experiment, questions are growing about how long this version of the kickoff can survive—let us watch the video to see what might happen next.