New Overtime Rule for Playoffs

How long until they just play the whole OT period?

Nehalem said:

How long until they just play the whole OT period?

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Yeah defense should be able to get a stop if they can't too bad

ArchAngel007 said:

Yeah defense should be able to get a stop if they can't too bad

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The problem is the rules today are all geared towards helping the offense...

Why do these leagues continue to address non-problems, and lessen their games in the process, while ignoring the actual problems they have?



Short of just having a game decided by a straight coin flip, sudden death overtime is the closest thing to "fair" that a sport like football can ever hope to come up with.

Don't like it. Oh well.

Gonna be weird to see the coin toss winners in OT in the playoffs kick off instead of receiving. Teams will obviously want to know what they need to do when they get their possession.

Deus Irae said:

Why do these leagues continue to address non-problems, and lessen their games in the process, while ignoring the actual problems they have?



Short of just having a game decided by a straight coin flip, sudden death overtime is the closest thing to "fair" that a sport like football can ever hope to come up with.

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The only fair way is sudden death but a silent auction to determine who and where the ball is spotted (closest to own end zone to go plays offense). Unless every team submits the 1 yard line it removes the coin toss advantage entirely.

I'm ok with games in the regular season just ending in ties after regulation. There's no point to OT in the regular season.

Tug-of-war. A team gets four downs to get as far as possible. If they don't score a TD, the other team takes over at the current spot. No punts, no field goals. Worst field position bid gets the choice of kicking or receiving.

I blame Bill Polian

So Team A scores TD, team B scores TD then team A kicks FG to win. In other words...the coin toss decides it just like before.

I don't really care. It's probably slightly better for competition keeping in mind that it's absolutely not the same difficulty to make a stop on defense vs score on offense. It's probably worse for player safety because games will be longer if they make it to OT.

It all cancels out to me.

Whoever loses the regulation coin toss should just get to choose in OT. Then go to sudden death immediately like the old times. EZPZ

Looks like the Pats were one of the yes votes.

sb1 said:

Looks like the Pats were one of the yes votes.

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After that Dallas game, I'm not surprised.

sb1 said:

I'm ok with games in the regular season just ending in ties. There's no point to OT in the regular season.

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I'm fine with it as well, but I think a non negligible portion of fans and NFL decision makers would be against it because of some vague complaint about participation trophies, soccer, Europe, etc.

Hate it hate it hate it

Deus Irae said:

Why do these leagues continue to address non-problems, and lessen their games in the process, while ignoring the actual problems they have?



Short of just having a game decided by a straight coin flip, sudden death overtime is the closest thing to "fair" that a sport like football can ever hope to come up with.

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I think the problem is that kickers have become too good and they moved the touchback up to the 25.

So previously to have a good chance to win on a FG you had to go from the 20 to say the opp28 for a 45y FG. So you had to go 52 yards.

Now FGs over 50 are almost routine and you start at the 25. So you only have to go 40 yards.

Maybe the correct solution is to make it sudden death, but you need a TD for either team to win.

No more cheap FG playoff wins.

And in the regular season you probably end up with more ties, but not a great many more, and wins are satisfying and fair.

I prefer a 10 min OT quarter. But whatever. Now if people complain it will look weak