Sudden death OT....

[Kevinicus]

Why is it so difficult to have all 3 phases of the game involved for both teams? What's wrong with alternating kickoffs, or as someone else suggested, college rules with teams starting at their own 25?

Why flip a coin and leave open the possibility of game coming down to a single matchup of team strength vs. team weakness?

 

[dogunwo]

If this game and the end result doesnt initiate change by the NFL for overtime I don't know what will.

It is totally ridiculous that two teams fight to a tie for 60 mins to come down to possibly one team touching the ball in OT. The fact the two teams fought to a tie each team should be REWARDED an opportunity each in OT. And get rid of the damn coin all together. Put two footballs at the 50, each team puts one player at the goal line and they sprint to the ball. First one to it gets to decide if they kick or receive. At least you're putting physical skill on the field to dictate who receives and defends. Not a stupid coin chance.

XFL?

 

[Yeagermeister]

XFL?

Yeap...they had two players sprint to the ball and the first to pick it up got first possession.

 

[PBJTime]

why? fg's count as points...

people cry about this garbage everytime there's an OT game...they showed the damn stats for this yrs OT games for it right before they kicked off, and the w/l record is 7-6 in favor of the teams winning the toss...and thats pretty close to what the historical record for it is as well...

dont like OT? Then win the damn game in the first 60 minutes.

Totally agree.

 

[jswalker1981]

That's not what you said though. You said if you can't stop them you don't deserve to win. But the fact of the matter is that stopping them is just the start.

At the very least they should remove the possibility of a FG ending the game. Gotta get in the endzone to end it.

That's my biggest issue with overtime in the NFL. Don't do the college way, but just add on another period for 8-10 minutes, and then the teams will try to score TDs instead of just getting down into field goal range. How many teams do you hear say that their intent on the first drive of the 1st quarter is to score a FG?? It is to score a TD and settle for a FG if possible. Not the other way around.

 

[Cochese]

Sounds like a bitter Farve fan...

LOL your tears taste like candy.

 

[Nav22]

Did I say that? No. A coin flip is 50/50.

Then let's just not play OT and let the coin toss decide the winner. It's 50/50.

In a shoot-out, there's a clear advantage to the team that wins the coin toss. And that's absurd. A coin toss shouldn't have so much impact on the outcome of a football game.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Take today's Minn/NO game.

If Minn ST's stop them inside the 20, force a 3 and out, and then take the punt, .. and then go down and score, all three phases of the game come into play.

You can't get any more fair than that.

College is just that, college.

I hope the NFL never changes.

 

[Nav22]

Why flip a coin and leave open the possibility of game coming down to a single matchup of team strength vs. team weakness?

A great question that will go unanswered... since there is no good answer the other side can give to it.

 

[NickZepp]

There's only one change that needs to be made in a SB. Have each team get the ball one time then have it be sudden death after both teams have had an offensive possession at least one time. If a team scores on a defensive TD the game ends.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Take today's Minn/NO game.

If Minn ST's stop them inside the 20, force a 3 and out, and then take the punt, .. and then go down and score, all three phases of the game come into play.

You can't get any more fair than that.

College is just that, college.

I hope the NFL never changes.

 

[NickZepp]

The college rule is the only one dumber than the NFL rule. But I don't like the NFL rule either.

 

[thekavorka]

Normally, holding a team to a FG is not a bad thing. It should be first team to score at least 4 points in overtime wins (win on 2 safeties!).

 

[trickblue]

...is a TERRIBLE rule. The NFL needs to take something from College Football and implement a similar overtime process.

I was not rooting for either team in the NFC Championship game, but seeing Minnesota lose in OT without a series on offense seemed unbalanced to me.

I guess the upside in this case is that the Super Bowl would be a good game no matter who played the Colts.

I think both teams should get the ball at least once...

Rather simple actually...

 

[StylisticS]

I'd be fine with the college format but they can't start at the 25.

 

[jimmy40]

I'd be in favor of both teams getting a possession, not necessarily the college rules.

well that makes too much sense.

 

[Kevinicus]

Take today's Minn/NO game.

If Minn ST's stop them inside the 20, force a 3 and out, and then take the punt, .. and then go down and score, all three phases of the game come into play.

You can't get any more fair than that.

College is just that, college.

I hope the NFL never changes.

You notice that one big word in there?? I'll bold it for you. Let's not play the "If" game please.

 

[Cover 2]

Adam posted the stats on overtime a while back and it was like 51% to 49%. It's not some huge advantage.

I've noticing the people complaining about OT in the NFL have conveniently ignored this.

 

[Doomsday]

I hate the college rules. I am torn on the pro over time rules, maybe they can come up with something some where in between. Maybe have both teams starting on the 40 instead of the 20 or something like that.

 

[Doomsday]

Adam posted the stats on overtime a while back and it was like 51% to 49%. It's not some huge advantage.

The problem with Adam's stats are they go back before the NFL was an offense happy league. I would be curious to see what those numbers are for the last 10 seasons.