Changing NFL Extra Point Rules

The current National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell has just come out suggesting that the extra point after touchdowns is so nearly automatic that it should be eliminated and teams just be given seven points after a touchdown...with an option to pursue an eighth point with what we now call a two-point conversion.  If that play is unsuccessful, a further point would be deducted and the scoring team would get only six points for all their trouble.  I don't like that idea: no one deducts points in a game in any sport unless it is because a scoring play has been reviewed and overturned.  Instead, in my opinion, they  should keep the system basically the same as it presently is, with the only difference being that an extra point attempt would take place on the twenty-yard-line (as the line of scrimmage from where the ball is hiked to the placeholder, making the kick essentially 36-37 yards long)...still probable but certainly not a shoo-in. Also, successfully kicking extra points, even from the current close range of today, is more problematic in college football and very "up in the air" on the high school level.  Placekickers should keep their important role on the team and in the sport: my suggestion would make them even more a deserved focus of attention.

I remember the times back in the early 1970's when NFL teams that had accurate long-distance kickers could consistently get themselves into field goal range by just getting into the opposing team's territory.  My Miami Dolphins racked up a lot of points that way by running a ball-control offense, getting a few first downs to the point where they had gotten a little bit past midfield, and then sending in Garo Yepremian to boot another long three-pointer.  In reaction to the ever-increasing ease of scoring field goals, the NFL rules were changed and the goal posts were moved from the goal line to the back of the end zone.  My suggestion about moving the extra point attempt back to the 20-yard line is in keeping with this sort of change and doesn't dramatically change the nature of the game, as Commissioner Goodell's proposal would...