NFL overtime proposal passes

[number9]

This is per Jim Thomas, on Twitter, from the NFL owners' meetings.

I don't even remember what the proposal was.

EDIT, here's the story:
Team winning coin toss must score touchdown to win in sudden death

[Freed Roger]

that's an improvement ...I guess. It's odd-maybe it'll get explained better later.

why not just make it first team to 6 wins-(or if time expires without 6-then its 3)? instead of this.

Starting next season, if a team wins the coin toss and then kicks a field goal, the other team gets the ball.

If the game is still tied after that, play will continue under the current sudden-death rules. Should the team winning the toss immediately score a touchdown, then the game is over.

unclear what happens if team leading 3-0 kicks off, and holds the other team to not score - does that mean its over?

Also-just for post season.?

and thinking like Bellegenius, what if you have the ball first and get buried deep in your own end and its 4th down. You are probably better to take a safety and do a punt off from the 20 than kick from the back of your end zone.

[JL21]

Changing it just for playoff games is crazy. Why would you make it different for games that matter much, much more?

I agree with the whole idea in principle but it seems overly complicated.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I understand football is a very rough sport, but these are grown men. Just let them play the full 15, find out the final score, and if it's tied, it's a tie.

Play the full 15 in OT as well, go to sudden death after 15 if it's still tied.

[clevername]

it still leaves out the other team's offense if the coin toss winner gets a TD. I know defense is supposed to be a big part of the game (and it is) and giving up the TD is a bad thing, but you're not forcing the winning team's defense to not give that TD up.

Give each team equal possessions. First time one team scores more than the other with equal possessions the game is over. Not complicated.

[TimeForGuinness]

it still leaves out the other team's offense if the coin toss winner gets a TD. I know defense is supposed to be a big part of the game (and it is) and giving up the TD is a bad thing, but you're not forcing the winning team's defense to not give that TD up.

Give each team equal possessions. First time one team scores more than the other with equal possessions the game is over. Not complicated.

Don't college football games get decided like this? or am I being ignorant here?

[MrCrowesGarden]

it still leaves out the other team's offense if the coin toss winner gets a TD. I know defense is supposed to be a big part of the game (and it is) and giving up the TD is a bad thing, but you're not forcing the winning team's defense to not give that TD up.

Give each team equal possessions. First time one team scores more than the other with equal possessions the game is over. Not complicated.

Don't college football games get decided like this? or am I being ignorant here?

It is, but they also do the gimmick where teams start on the 25 yard line, and you have to go for two on the touchdown after your third possession.

[clevername]

yeah, I don't think the NFL needs to do the 25 yard line thing. I like it for college but it would "cheapen" the NFL game to me.

My NFL proposal would be to play it like a regular game and as soon as one team has a lead after both teams have had an equal number of possessions the game is over.

[TimeForGuinness]

it still leaves out the other team's offense if the coin toss winner gets a TD. I know defense is supposed to be a big part of the game (and it is) and giving up the TD is a bad thing, but you're not forcing the winning team's defense to not give that TD up.

Give each team equal possessions. First time one team scores more than the other with equal possessions the game is over. Not complicated.

Don't college football games get decided like this? or am I being ignorant here?

It is, but they also do the gimmick where teams start on the 25 yard line, and you have to go for two on the touchdown after your third possession.

Yep, rings a bell...thanks for the clarification.

Why don't they just start another quarter and let them bang it out...they have a week to recover.

[Leroy]

Or make them sword fight while chained together until every member of one team is dead.

If we are going to bring a horrible word like sudden death into it, then bring it.