The NFL Doesn't Care About Its Broken Overtime Rules

That’s the frustrating part about the game that blew our collective minds. It could have been better. Ithave been better. And it’s not like the NFL doesn’t have a vault of attractive ideas sitting in the recesses of 345 Park Ave. collecting dust. There have been some innovative overtime proposals lobbied recently. There have been alternative overtimes used effectively by the competing leagues the NFL has used as a petri dish for decades.

Last year, the Baltimore Ravens proposed a spot-and-choose scenario, which awards the team that wins the coin toss the right to pick where to spot the ball or whether they want to play offense or defense. We could copy collegiate overtime. We could, as MMQB Podcast co-host Gary Gramling suggested on our show this week, install an additional 15-minute quarter. We could adopt the CFL’s overtime, which is a kind of modified collegiate overtime with a forced two-point conversion. We could come to the table, dissect the best of everything and come up with a proposal that doesn’t act as an anticlimax.

The NFL has the worst set of overtime rules out of any of the major sports. In recent years, the NHL and MLB have both openly explored with tweaks. Hockey’s overtime is anunto itself. The strategy of condensing the game to a three-on-three matchup before eventually folding a still-tied game into a shootout is a phenomenal complement to regulation. Sometimes leagues throw them out, sometimes they stick and become part of the game’s mainstream appeal.

Stop whining about the OT rules. I’m a Bills fan for 49 years. OT had nothing to do with our collapse. It WAS all about a defense that was subpar the entire game and hapless during the 4th quarter & OT, and an incompetent DC who has no business coaching in the NFL anymore.

theMMQB The brain trust at the nfl went to all the trouble of changing the OT rule and never fixed the problem.

Why wouldn’t the NFL? That’s another 10 minutes of add revenue during a highly watched playoff game

What about this rule: if you have the top rated defense in the league and can't hold your opponent for 13 seconds you deserve to lose?

no… there’s just ONE tweak the NFL could make… and EVERYONE would be satisfied and never complain again… wait for it.

For it to

ConorOrr “According to NFL Research, coin toss winners are 10–1 under current overtime rules.” *IN THE PLAYOFFS* You left out a major qualifier there. Overall since the rule change, the team that won the toss won the game 52.8% of the time. You’d be hard pressed to be more fair.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

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