NFL likely to shut down rulebook loophole Eagles have been exploiting for the past two weeks

For the past two weeks, several teams have been taking advantage of a loophole in the NFL rulebook, but that likely won't be happening much longer. It looks like the league is thinking about shutting it down.

The rulebook is kind of ambiguous about whether teams can use a holder WITHOUT a tee on a normal kickoff, so the Eagles have been taking advantage of that. In their Week 2 win over the Titans, the Eagles sent out punter Braden Mann to serve as the holder for Jake Elliott on kickoffs. The Eagles were trying to make it easier for Elliott to kick a "Dirty ball," which is essentially a low knuckleball that can be difficult to field.

To make Elliott's job easier, the Eagles had Mann hold the football ON THE GROUND at Elliott's preferred angle.

Smart loophole? #Eagles had holder Braden Mann on the field as a 12th man for all but one of Jake Elliott's kickoffs last week.It's legal under the new kickoff rules, as long as the holder runs off the field after the kick. In this case, it wasn't because of wind. It was to… pic.twitter.com/JFU1Z7lH9f

The Falcons also used this strategy in their Week…

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