Owners Vote To Change OT Rules In Playoffs
by David_Wyatt on Mar 23, 2010 3:49 PM EDT
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PrintNFL owners voted in favor of an overtime rule change for the playoffs.
Sensing that a random coin flip was becoming too much of a factor in deciding games, the league's competition committee proposed giving the team that loses the flip a possession in OT if the team that wins the toss only kicks a field goal on its first drive. If the team that wins the toss scores a touchdown then the game is over.
According to the NY Post, the owners passed the new rule by a vote of 28-4, and it will be implemented in the 2010 playoffs. 24 votes were needed.
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I think I see it as just another step towards a completely offensive league….
With all the rule changes over the last 10 years about hits on QB’s, downfield contact, defenses are being taken out the game, and now they are giving each team offensive possessions. Why not put the pressure on the D to have to stop them or else, now they can settle for stopping a FG, and turn it back to the offence.
Not a big fan of it either.
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I think the premise is so simple, you don’t really need to experiement with it. Think it was a case of you either want it or you don’t. I have a feeling that we may of been one of the 4 that voted against it, after all Rex spoke out about it recently saying that the OT rules were fine as they were.
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I read somewhere that the Jets ended up voting for the change.
and the home of the... JETS!!!
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yeah Buffalo,Cincy,Minny, and Baltimore voted no
by chrebetsthebet on Mar 23, 2010 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I kinda like it.
But they should’ve just made it the new rule across the board, instead of just for the playoffs.
I hate watching teams get a lucky play and get just inside the 30 and then sit on it to kick the FG. The new rule gives the D a chance to salvage the game.
I agree with this
Like I said earlier I thought maybe a preseason experiment might be the way to introduce it. However if you are going to do it why not do it across the board. Let’s say we would have been tied at the end of the Cinncy game last year. The last regular season game, which for us was like a play off game. It was no less important than the very next week.
Of course it might be a bit of a stretch imagining us going into OT against Cinncy the way we beat them up lol.
I dont like it. Over complicated.
Wana change OT? Just play 15 minute quarter, no sudden death, when it’s over it’s over.
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What would happen at the end of the 15 minutes if the teams were still tied?? Just wondering as I don’t like it either
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they would stay tied i guess? it’s happened before
by chrebetsthebet on Mar 23, 2010 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions
That would just confuse the hell out of Donovan McNabb
Rofl.
What would happen at the end of the 15 minutes if the teams were still tied?? Just wondering as I don’t like it either
I guess just a tie. For a playoff game, just keep playing and make it two quarters, like basketball.
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why don’t they just do it like college? both teams get a shot to score from the 30 yard line
by chrebetsthebet on Mar 23, 2010 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm Opposed
I actually think the rule is fine at face value. I just don’t like the idea of having one rule for the regular season and another completely different rule for the playoffs. If the sudden death rule really puts one team at a competitive disadvantage in the playoffs, wouldn’t that apply to the regular season?
by RevisIslander on Mar 23, 2010 5:17 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I completely agree here, if you are going to do it, you have to go in 100%.
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there will be another vote in may whether to implement it during the regular season also
by chrebetsthebet on Mar 23, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Two oddities in new OT rule: Kicking team can onside kick and win on first-possession FG; defensive team can win on first-possession safety.
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They really are complictin things arnt they
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That is a little confusing. Rex better have it all written down on a card.
I only like the rule because it forces a team to go for a TD rather than just settle for a FG.
by chrebetsthebet on Mar 23, 2010 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Well technically the receiving team has possession once the ball goes beyond ten yards. Its really a turnover. So both teams have had possession. But i highly doubt we’ll see a surge of onside kicks in post-season games as a result.
Why not?
You would be conceding decent field goal position, but if you trust your defense, why not go for the Onside, if you get it back then all you’d need is a FG to win. If your defense can hold the other team to a FG and not a TD, you can still get the ball back anyway.
But your probably right, with how conservative the NFL is they’d probably never kick onsides.
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I hear yo but its still too risky. If you don’t get it you’re giving up too good of field position. You’re basically handing them three points. I mean we had the best D in the league last year and we never tried an onside kick. By your logic we should’ve at least tried it once a game. Nobody is going to take that kind of gamble with the season on the line.
yes, but the way I understand it, if all they do is kick a FG, you get the ball back to give it a try.
So if you onside kick, recover and kick a FG, game over. If you onside kick, don’t recover, they only get a FG, you still get the ball back to at least try for a FG to keep the game alive.
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Off topic but just saw a picture of Rex from the NFL owners meetings today:
Already looking a little slimmer
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I like it, but if they truly thought it was a problem wouldn’t they have considered making it a regular season change as well? Or do regular season games not matter enough?
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exactly. Seems silly to me too.
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I have my own OT rule I would like to see In the nfl. No coin flip. No Time limit. No field goals. Put the Ball on the 50 yard line. Put the teams players in their endzones and unleash hell at the blow of the wistle. First team to get the ball in the other teams endzone wins. No plays and no timeouts. No down by contact or tackling, just one play, anything goes anarchy. I can promise one thing. The Toughest team will win every time. lol
by colinyoung on Mar 23, 2010 7:19 PM EDT reply actions
Isn’t that what that XFL league that Vince McMahon did??
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Lol you might be right.
These are the old XFL OT rules Quoted from an old site I found…
“the XFL also announced that no game will end in a tie due to its “can you top this” overtime rule, in which both teams will get the ball at least once. Each team will get four downs to score from the opponent’s 20 yard line. However, if team A scores a touchdown in less that four downs, team B only gets that many downs to respond.
Should neither team score, or should each team score the same amount of points on the same down, the first time around, they’ll do it again until there’s a winner.
“We think we have come up with an innovative, unique and fair way to decide a game which tied after regulation,” said Keller. “We wanted both teams to get the ball at least once in overtime, but if the first team scores a touchdown on the first play, everyone in the building and everyone watching on TV will know that if the second team doesn’t put it in the end zone on the first play, the game is over.”
by colinyoung on Mar 24, 2010 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions
College Rules rule
It is a step in the right direction, but the college rules make the most sense. Go back and forth until someone scores more or less than the possession before them. Gives everyone a chance.
I hate the College OT Rules. So over complicated.
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Don't like it
Someone was saying it’s been 7 years since the last time a team in the playoffs won the flip, received and kicked a FG for the win without the other team touching the ball.
I hate how they will change the rules for some people (cough Farve and Brady) but in other instances they ignore what happened (like how Palmer got hurt nearly the exact same way as Brady in the playoffs the year before but no one wanted a rule change.)
How about they change something useful. Just so you know, I don’t have any football tv packages. But it’s annoying that when 1PM game is over, they’ll sometimes go to another closer game. It seems like half the time they switch to a second game, they have to leave the game due to broadcast rules and take you to the 2nd game of the double header before the game is over. Just let the networks broadcast the good close game for the extra 10-15 minutes to see it to the end.
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Why does the NFL just complicate things?
Why not do an across-the-board change rather than for playoffs only?
And why not do the painfully obvious, which is to allow each team a drive (a chance to score), and make it sudden death if it’s still tied after that?
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