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The NFL rule shortfalls

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i agree that SD OT sucks

also IMO you should NOT be allowed to just take a knee and blow nearly 2 min off the clock at the end of the game, you should be FORCED to actually play the game and if you fuck it up and lose thats your own fault
 
They should play an extra 10 minutes with regular rules, then if it's still tied after that, go to sudden death.

KT
 
meltdown75 said:
sudden death OT sucks...... i like the college OT much better.
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College OT would suck in the NFL. The NFL OT is fine how it is. Your defense needs to step up or lose you the game. No OT system will be perfect. One of the best suggestions I have heard in changing it on here was the first to score 7 points in OT wins. Make the kicker come out.

What if they are given 5 extra minutes and one team takes the whole time to score, you will still have whining. If you make it 10 and one team is on the 1 yard line trying to score after someone else scored, whining will ensue. For 15 minutes one team may have 2 possessions and one have only one, more whining will ensue.

As for Mike & Mike, I would listen to Golic but not Greenberg. Greenberg never played in the sport so his opinion is of a commentator. Greenberg's opinion is no better than anyone else who sits beyond the sidelines.
 
jalaram said:
I can't stand the college system for OT. Shortened extra periods is a better idea.

FWIW, winning the toss isn't everything. Ask the Packers in the wild card game or Hasselback's guarantee a few years ago. Plus, I've heard that the Vikings gave the Saints a lot of help in that OT drive. (My ReplayTV stopped recording when OT started, so I missed 90% of it).
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I was watching the second Bears and Vikings game this year. The game that went into OT. The commentator said that the team that won the coin toss was 6-6 up to that point in OT games this year.

It is simple, your defense needs to step up and force a punt. These are paid athletes.
 
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The Summit OT Policy:

Team A and Team B are tied at the end of regulation.
College system but with kickoffs. No system of you get the ball at the 40 yard line.
 
OT should continue with quarters until someone is winner. After two quarters with no winner then tie.

Always wondered why it was sudden death.
 
Adrenaline said:
I was watching the second Bears and Vikings game this year. The game that went into OT. The commentator said that the team that won the coin toss was 6-6 up to that point in OT games this year.

It is simple, your defense needs to step up and force a punt. These are paid athletes.
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There is a definite statistical advantage to winning a coin toss. Most people don't like the current sudden death OT rule, so I bet it changes sooner or later. The best setup would be one overtime in the regular season and as many as necessary in the playoffs.
 
Adrenaline said:
College OT would suck in the NFL. The NFL OT is fine how it is. Your defense needs to step up or lose you the game. No OT system will be perfect. One of the best suggestions I have heard in changing it on here was the first to score 7 points in OT wins. Make the kicker come out.
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I agree that college OT rules would be horrible in the NFL, but the current system is not fine. The statistics demonstrably show that the outcome is greatly dependent on winning the coin flip. Why does the game rest on just one half of the team and not involve the whole? Especially when the NFL has introduced rule changes in the last few years which makes the game more offense oriented.
 
crownjules said:
I agree that college OT rules would be horrible in the NFL, but the current system is not fine. The statistics demonstrably show that the outcome is greatly dependent on winning the coin flip. Why does the game rest on just one half of the team and not involve the whole? Especially when the NFL has introduced rule changes in the last few years which makes the game more offense oriented.
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the team that wins the toss wins the game 52% of the time. i wouldn't call that greatly dependent. though i believe that's over a long period of time, and so discounts the offense-oriented rule changes.
 
i prefer college OT rules, but NFL will never change from the current system as it would disrupt televised broadcasts too much, and the teams would be subject to more injury and fatigue.
 
New sudden death idea:
Put the ball on the 50 yard line.
Each team places 11 people in their endzone.
When the whistle blows, it's on.
Whoever gets the ball into their endzone first wins.
There are no downs or clocks.

...it will be epic!
 
Demon-Xanth said:
New sudden death idea:
Put the ball on the 50 yard line.
Each team places 11 people in their endzone.
When the whistle blows, it's on.
Whoever gets the ball into their endzone first wins.
There are no downs or clocks.

...it will be epic!
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TBH that would be more interesting then most if not all of the normal football game
 
ElFenix said:
the team that wins the toss wins the game 52% of the time. i wouldn't call that greatly dependent. though i believe that's over a long period of time, and so discounts the offense-oriented rule changes.
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60%. That's over 148 OT games from 2000-2007. It's a large enough discrepancy that it should be changed.
 
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