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Kansas City Chiefs special teams coach Dave Toub has hit back at several critiques from President Donald Trump over a kickoff rule change in the NFL this season, saying the president \u201cdoesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s looking at\u201d and \u201chas no idea what\u2019s going on.\u201d <\/p>\n
Kansas City Chiefs special teams Dave Toub on Oct. 12, 2025. <\/p>\n
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Trump has several times this season criticized the NFL’s \u201cdynamic kickoff<\/a>\u201d rule, which was introduced two years ago and altered again this last off season.<\/p>\n The dynamic kickoff, which changes player alignment and touchback rules, is meant to address player safety and increase returns, but Trump said in a Truth Social post<\/a> earlier this month it \u201cTAKES THE PAGEANTRY AND GLAMOUR AWAY FROM THE GAME.\u201d <\/p>\n In September he called the new rule \u201csissy football<\/a>\u201d that was \u201cbad for America\u201d and he again criticized it in a Pat McAfee Show interview last week, saying it’s “terrible,” “demeaning” and “hurts the game,” adding “I\u2019ve told that to (NFL commissioner) Roger Goodell.”<\/p>\n Toub, 63, hit back during a press conference Thursday by saying, \u201cTrump doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s looking at. He has no idea what\u2019s going on with the kickoff rule. Take that for what it\u2019s worth. I hope he hears it.\u201d <\/p>\n Trump has also said several times that he doesn’t think the new rules have made the game any safer, but league data showed<\/a> a 43% reduction in documented head injuries on kickoffs in the first year of the rule change. <\/p>\n Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts: We\u2019re launching text message alerts so you’ll always know the biggest stories shaping the day\u2019s headlines. Text \u201cAlerts\u201d to (201) 335-0739<\/a> or sign up here<\/a>: joinsubtext.com\/forbes.<\/a><\/p>\n Crucial Quote<\/p>\n \u201cThe pageantry of the game is so badly hurt,\u201d Trump told McAfee. <\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Kansas City Chiefs special teams coach Dave Toub has hit back at several critiques from President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,5386,170545,171240,1240,593,85,3281],"class_list":["post-299527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chiefs","tag-dave-toub","tag-dynamic-kickoff","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}