The complaints about Thursday night’s game between the Seahawks and Cardinals were flying well before Jason Myers’ winning 52-yard field goal as time expired.

It wasn’t so much that the Seahawks had won or that they had taken advantage of single-coverage on Jaxon Smith-Njigba to quickly move downfield that was such a hot topic.

No, the focus again was on the kickoff rule and the fact that a blunder by Arizona’s Chad Ryland put Seattle in position to quickly move into position to win after the Cardinals had tied the game with 28 seconds remaining.

Ryland tried to skip the ball in play in an effort to pin Seattle back and run some clock, but he kicked it short of the landing zone and gave the Seahawks the ball at the 40-yard line.

Cue the chorus of grievances.

“The new kicking rules are

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