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Mark Murphy: Packers voted no on new kickoff because it "made sense to have a trial" in preseason

While the NFL adopted a new kickoff rule for 2024 on Tuesday, the Packers were one of just three teams to vote against the proposal.

Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy explained to reporters later in the day that he didn't necessarily want to implement all the changes so quickly.

"Our issue was that it's such a major change, my thought — our thought — was it makes sense, really, to have [it] as a trial or experiment in the preseason to see what — there's going to be some unintended consequences, I think," Murphy said, via Ryan Wood of PackersNews.