NFL Overtime rules change in regular season

[WilliamBrees]

Is this a April Fools tweet?

 

[RaginSaint93]

Is this a April Fools tweet?

No

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

Two really inept teams play to a 3-3 tie at the end of regulation. Both do 3 and outs in overtime. Sounds exciting.

Blissful to me. I miss those old low scoring games and hate the 50-47 games of today lol.

Old man yelling at clouds I know.

 

[Patman255]

Give me old school sudden death. First to score any points wins.

I'm pretty sure the odds were like 48/52 winning if you won the toss or not. Almost exactly 50/50. If they care about player safety, making the shortest overtime possible is the way to go.

 

[RaginCajun83]

Give me old school sudden death. First to score any points wins.

I'm pretty sure the odds were like 48/52 winning if you won the toss or not. Almost exactly 50/50. If they care about player safety, making the shortest overtime possible is the way to go.

Oh come on, we all know better. “Player safety” is only used to push some agenda the league office has about an issue

 

[RadsRock]

*shrug*

Same for everyone, and we can't do anything to change it, so nothing to get worked up about.

Fortunately it doesn't come up that often.

 

[St. Geezy]

Give me old school sudden death. First to score any points wins.

I'm pretty sure the odds were like 48/52 winning if you won the toss or not. Almost exactly 50/50. If they care about player safety, making the shortest overtime possible is the way to go.

I just really hate the idea of today’s offensive centric league, full of rules that heavily favor offensive football, to have games decided merely by who wins the coin toss.

Is it more exciting the old way, sure, but it truly wasn’t fair.

 

[SystemShock]

I would be fine if they called a tie after four quarters during the regular season. Better for player safety, and teams will take more chances at the end of the 4th quarter to play for the win versus trying to go into OT.

In the postseason, I am good with giving a team one chance to answer any score on the first drive, with sudden death the rest of the way if they manage to tie.

To me, is simply, if you are not good enough to win it in regulation, you don't deserve to win it.

 

[GW93]

If still tied after the overtime period, they should have each team alternate field goal attempts, starting from 40 yards and pushing the attempt back 5 yards after each round.

If that doesn't break the tie, then the 2 head coaches will thumb-wrestle for it.

 

[Brandon13]

Seems sort of odd to me to do this and still keep the OT at 10 minutes.

 

[Super]

Two really inept teams play to a 3-3 tie at the end of regulation. Both do 3 and outs in overtime. Sounds exciting.

Not at all, but two good teams scoring a couple times each in OT with one going for two sure does. I vote for the college rules

 

[St. Geezy]

Not at all, but two good teams scoring a couple times each in OT with one going for two sure does.

I think this is the next evolution of NFL overtime….forced game-ending situations.

I.E. If you get first possession and score a TD and convert your extra point, the other team must score a TD and go for two to end the game.

If you kick a field goal on your first possession, the other team must score a TD to end the game.

 

[los226]

It feels like the overtime rules have been changed a few different offseasons dating back to the Saints NFC championship win.

 

[Super]

I think this is the next evolution of NFL overtime….forced game-ending situations.

I.E. If you get first possession and score a TD and convert your extra point, the other team must score a TD and go for two to end the game.

If you kick a field goal on your first possession, the other team must score a TD to end the game.

I could go for that. I would guess that it would be more like college like I said where they get to go back-and-forth a couple of times before they force that issue. Still like that better than what we got now though.