I'm gonna say yes, as daft as I feel saying it
Shorter the bridge tap, the worse it is too, afaik?
A short while ago, I cut about 10 foot of cable off my old man's modem and installed a shiny faceplate. My reward? 3x increase in round trip times (11ms -> 29ms).
In doing so, I'd elevated the modem about 2 metres from it's original position on the floor and it was presumably picking up lots more RFI in the new position.