NFL overtime procedure sucks!!

[CruzDude]

Really gripes me that a coin toss can decide a game. That is a horrible way and totally non-equitable. Take the Charger-Steeler game a week ago. Steelers win the coin toss, kick a field goal and win before Chargers even had a chance.

Git rid of that stupid policy

Give each team the ball on their own 30 yard line and go from there.

 

[uolj]

I prefer the "each team must have at least one possession" solution.

 

[Bibby_Is_Clutch]

I prefer the "each team must have at least one possession" solution.

I guess college has one thing right.

Maybe the NFL and NCAA should talk. (Review/Overtime)

 

[Heuge]

If a team plays defense then the coin toss makes no difference.

 

[VF21]

If a team plays defense then the coin toss makes no difference.

Word.

And historically there isn't that big an advantage to winning the toss.

 

[Bricklayer]

I prefer the "each team must have at least one possession" solution.

Boring and inane.

Rather stick with the current procedure -- at least there's real tension.



If the rule was changed so that they just played right on into a sudden death 5th quarter with no break, would that be unfair to the team that does not have the ball at the end of regulation? When a team kicks a field goal at the end of regulation and does not allow the other team enough time to get the ball back is that unfair to the other team?

 

[kingsnation]

Really gripes me that a coin toss can decide a game. That is a horrible way and totally non-equitable. Take the Charger-Steeler game a week ago. Steelers win the coin toss, kick a field goal and win before Chargers even had a chance.

Git rid of that stupid policy

Give each team the ball on their own 30 yard line and go from there.

I think you mean Chargers/Colts? But anyway, NFL teams have a defense for a reason. If they play a little, they get the ball.

 

[Alacron]

The NFL sudden death OT is a time-honored tradition. It can be frustrating, but only if you know your team can't stop their opponent, in which case they probably don't deserve to win anyway.

Classic games like the 1958 championship, and my personal favorite, the Atlanta-Minny NFC championship, wouldn't have had the same suspense without sudden death.
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[uolj]

The suspense would be just as great, if not more so, if each team was guaranteed a possession. Why? Because for every dramatic drive beginning an overtime that loses drama because it is not sudden death, there is a subsequent drive that obtains the same or more drama. If the first team with the ball scores a field goal, then the drama really increases. The second team has one drive, one chance, to score. A touchdown wins it, no score loses it. A turnover loses it. That is more drama, more suspense, more tension, in my opinion. Definitely not boring or inane either.

While historically there hadn't been a big advantage to winning the coin toss, which was why I was against changing the rules until recently, since they moved the kickoffs back to the 30 yard line there has been a distinct advantage. I don't know the current numbers, but I think it was something over 60-40. If that was true, then that is a big enough advantage to warrant a change in the rules.

And Bibby_Is_Clutch, you quoted me, but I do not like the college system at all. In my opinion that system is not appropriate for the NFL.

 

[crypticone]

I think you mean Chargers/Colts? But anyway, NFL teams have a defense for a reason. If they play a little, they get the ball.

I can't disagree more. Teams may have a defense for a reason, but even good defenses get tired after playing a 4 quarter game. Especially, if the team who wins the coin toss was also the team that had the ball at the end of regulation. I think that they should do what soccer does in OT situations. Have a kick off. Start the two kickers at a certain area of the field and keep backing up each time both kickers make it. If one kickers makes a 45 yd field goal and than the opposing kicker misses it you have your winner. If they both make it, you try again from a longer distance.

 

[Heuge]

I can't disagree more. Teams may have a defense for a reason, but even good defenses get tired after playing a 4 quarter game. Especially, if the team who wins the coin toss was also the team that had the ball at the end of regulation. I think that they should do what soccer does in OT situations. Have a kick off. Start the two kickers at a certain area of the field and keep backing up each time both kickers make it. If one kickers makes a 45 yd field goal and than the opposing kicker misses it you have your winner. If they both make it, you try again from a longer distance.

Then the best team does not win. The team with the best kicker wins...that isn't football.

 

[Bballkingsrock]

Then the best team does not win. The team with the best kicker wins...that isn't football.

Well,..............it does have the word foot in the game's name.............Lol, just a joke!

 

[crypticone]

Then the best team does not win. The team with the best kicker wins...that isn't football.

Yeah, but the kicker is part of the team. So if you have a better kicker than another team and your offenses and defenses just fought to a tie and your better kicker kicked the winning tie breaking field goal than yeah, I would say that in that aspect of the game, the team with the better kicker is the better team.

 

[BigWaxer]

As much as the college system sucks. The OT system is pretty fair IMO

 

[kingsnation]

I can't disagree more. Teams may have a defense for a reason, but even good defenses get tired after playing a 4 quarter game. Especially, if the team who wins the coin toss was also the team that had the ball at the end of regulation. I think that they should do what soccer does in OT situations. Have a kick off. Start the two kickers at a certain area of the field and keep backing up each time both kickers make it. If one kickers makes a 45 yd field goal and than the opposing kicker misses it you have your winner. If they both make it, you try again from a longer distance.

Well, if you want suspense, that OT idea has none at all. It's just wrong in so may ways.

- If the Broncos and Chiefs go into OT at Mile High. And Jason Elam goes up against Lawrence Tynes in a kick-off...who do you think wins the game?

And yes even good defenses get tired after 4 quarter games, but that's why they get paid millions of dollars...to make plays.

Also, If you play a kick-off anyways, you're going to sit guys like Peyton Manning, and Ray Lewis on the bench while Lawrence Tynes decides a game? I don't think so.