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This is the right answer. We'd still win our 2 playoff games anyway. But this is needed even moreso now.Play the entire 15 minute OT in the post season only
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.This is the right answer. We'd still win our 2 playoff games anyway. But this is needed even moreso now.Play the entire 15 minute OT in the post season only
Agreed. All these other ideas, I'm just trying to decide which one I hate the most.I like it how it is. Your defense needs to make a stop
It used to be sudden death where a FG would win you the game. With these rules you still have a shotAgreed. All these other ideas, I'm just trying to decide which one I hate the most.
You say this, but every year in the playoffs, defense does catch up a bit. the titans held the bengals potent offense to 19 points, oh and guess how they won? An interception off a supposed “easy give me field goal drive” where the offense only needed 30/40 yards or so.That’s the problem. The original sudden death overtime concept came about in the early days when scoring was normal and teams could actually play defense. The rule was adjusted a dozen years ago after the Polian rules combined with the changes / improvements to place kickers made a quick field goal to start overtime a common occurrence. Now they’ve completely NBA’d the NFL, no one can play defense anymore, so marching down the field for a TD is relatively simple. The 2018 AFCCG was supposedly a phenomenal one-in-a-lifetime finish. Yesterday’s game made those 4th quarter and OT defenses look like the 1985 Bears.
There are two ways to adjust to this. One way is to have postseason OT be a full 10 minute period, and if still tied go on to 2nd OT. Another way, and hear me out on this, is to actually bring real football back and allow teams to play defense, so no OT rule changes would be needed. Crazy talk, I know…..
I do agree with you here completely, beside the take we are probably not going to win a shoot out against Mahomes and Allen type QB. Because its not just them its the cast around them, and if BB would go more after this dynamic players it would be easier for Mac and any other QB out there to compete against the Chiefs, than having to play with Harry and the likes that have no speed and barely get seperation. Beside Bourne (and in theory Smith) there is no one that has any YAC ability on the Pats team.The question was about the playing style, not if the talent level was better in 2018 vs 2021, which is an absurd question because the answer is so obvious.
If you do want to call out a difference between 2018 and 2021 it is that we had Stephon Gilmore in his prime and an overall much better set of DBs than this year's crew. You can also make the case that the 2021 era RBs are better than Burkhead and Michel especially if White didn't get injured.
In 2021 and onward the die is cast, we have Mac Jones who IMO is a top-10 level NFL QB talent but not top-4 level. TB12 ain't coming through that door. We're probably not going to win in a shoot out against the Mahomes and Allen type QBs.
IMO we pretty much have to make the 2018-era formula work, and yes, that means we need a lot more talent, on both sides of the ball.
Feels like a "woman I should have married instead of my ex-wife" list.WRs picked after Harry:
Deebo Samual
AJ Brown
DK Metcalf
Diontae Johnson
Terry Mclaurin
Hunter Renfrow
WRs picked after Harry:
Deebo Samual
AJ Brown
DK Metcalf
Diontae Johnson
Terry Mclaurin
Hunter Renfrow
Coin flip is what it is.
If Stephenson could catch, oh my...I do agree with you here completely, beside the take we are probably not going to win a shoot out against Mahomes and Allen type QB. Because its not just them its the cast around them, and if BB would go more after this dynamic players it would be easier for Mac and any other QB out there to compete against the Chiefs, than having to play with Harry and the likes that have no speed and barely get seperation. Beside Bourne (and in theory Smith) there is no one that has any YAC ability on the Pats team.
Point is, there is some method to his madness, and circumstances suggest we're gonna see more of it before we see less of it.You can chose Harry or you chose Samuel, thats on BB what players he likes and wants on the team, dynamic or slow mfs like Harry and SlowJuan.