ESPN Colleague Calls Out Mel Kiper For ‘Ridiculous’ Suggestion That NFL Ban Defensive Alignement

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If there’s one glaring takeaway from the first two weeks of the NFL season, it’s that offense is way down across the entire league.

Both scoring and total offense are way down from previous years. And while some may put this down to bad quarterback play around the league, there’s also another answer.

Teams are playing more coverages with two high safeties than ever before and daring teams to run the football while limiting explosive players. Longtime ESPN NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper has a fix to this: ban two-high coverages.

“Don’t tell me you can’t have those safeties closer to the line of scrimmage than they are. I was at games where I’m thinking, ‘Too high, they’re in outer space. I can’t even find them. They’re playing with nine guys. Where are the other two,'” Kiper said on ESPN Get Up on Thursday morning. They’re so far back I didn’t know they were part of the play. I’m telling you we got to change this thing. You can warn them, ‘Guys, you gotta move up a little bit.’ But the competition committee needs to figure out what that depth is. The NFL is being ruined by these two high safeties.”

Mel Kiper Gets Called Out By ESPN Colleague For Absurd NFL Rule Suggestion

Of course, teams would very quickly adjust to this on both sides of the ball.

Which is why Kiper’s ESPN colleague, Louis Riddick, was quick to call him out for his suggestion.