Blocked field goals, 70-yard threats and chaotic kickoffs, the foot is back in football

Rule tweaks and K' balls have put special teams at the center of the NFL season like never before, from 65-yard field goals to newfangled kickoff formations

Vic Fangio, the Philadelphia Eagles' crafty defensive coordinator, took great pride watching his defense force a third-down incompletion Sunday, leaving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 47 yards from the Eagles' goal line with only four seconds left in the first half.

In the old days, that might have led to a Hail Mary pass into the end zone. But instead Bucs kicker Chase McLaughlin trotted on to the field and calmly belted a 65-yard field goal through the super-heated Florida sky, tied for the second-longest in NFL history.