33 minutes ago, The Professor said:

What about the tiredness factor of defenses after four grueling quarters of play, particularly in a high intense playoff game. Whoever wins the coin toss in the overtime and is on offense has a big advantage imo. What I’m implying is make the other team’s defense have to do some stopping too. 

I hear what you're saying and implying.

Do offenses ever get tired?  You never hear the same reasoning equated to them.  I guess its because of momentum so you figure the offense as more adrenaline pumping?

All Buffalo had to do was play better defense for 13 seconds instead of letting Mahomes do whatever he wanted and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I look at it this way.  If God wanted the Bills to win that game, He would have allowed the Bills to win the coin toss.?

If the Bills won the toss and scored a TD on their drive, I'm not sure we hear as much griping about OT rules.

Per Elias Sports, since the change in OT format there have been 163 OT games. Of those 163 games, 35 of the 163 (21.5%) ended with a team winning the coin toss then driving it in for a score. There are four high profile instances of when it happened in the playoffs, so that is what we continually think of:

- Broncos/Steelers (Tebow 316 game)
- Falcons/Patriots Superbowl
- Chiefs/Patriots - 2019
- Chiefs/Bills - 2022
 

Rock, Paper, Scissors.   It's just as fair as a coin flip, without the head trauma.

On 1/25/2022 at 1:17 PM, MJAlltheWay24 said:

I hear what you're saying and implying.

Do offenses ever get tired?  You never hear the same reasoning equated to them.  I guess its because of momentum so you figure the offense as more adrenaline pumping?

All Buffalo had to do was play better defense for 13 seconds instead of letting Mahomes do whatever he wanted and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Or squib a kick....and cut it to about 8 seconds or less.

No change is needed.  It's fine the way it is.  

16 hours ago, 9068 said:

Or squib a kick....and cut it to about 8 seconds or less.

If they squibbed, and the Chiefs recovered and just kneeled, only a second or two run off the clock. Less is definitely desirable, but a short squib still leaves them a play or two to get it into field goal range.

3 minutes ago, rjs4470 said:

If they squibbed, and the Chiefs recovered and just kneeled, only a second or two run off the clock. Less is definitely desirable, but a short squib still leaves them a play or two to get it into field goal range.

So kick it deep but without putting it in the end zone would be the alternative.  Surely these kickers can kick it down to around the 5-10 yard line in the air.  I know when the touchback was moved to the 25 in college that quite a few teams got practiced at that before college just changed the rule to a fair catch before the 25 being the same as a touchback.

On 1/25/2022 at 6:04 PM, bugatti said:

Per Elias Sports, since the change in OT format there have been 163 OT games. Of those 163 games, 35 of the 163 (21.5%) ended with a team winning the coin toss then driving it in for a score. There are four high profile instances of when it happened in the playoffs, so that is what we continually think of:

- Broncos/Steelers (Tebow 316 game)
- Falcons/Patriots Superbowl
- Chiefs/Patriots - 2019
- Chiefs/Bills - 2022
 

From an Ian Rapoport tweet earlier this week.

2 hours ago, DragonFire said:

So kick it deep but without putting it in the end zone would be the alternative.  Surely these kickers can kick it down to around the 5-10 yard line in the air.  I know when the touchback was moved to the 25 in college that quite a few teams got practiced at that before college just changed the rule to a fair catch before the 25 being the same as a touchback.

A long kick, but short of the end zone was definitely the better option over either squibbing or kicking it into the end zone. Any kind of a return likely kills enough time to only give the Chiefs one more play. 

On 1/25/2022 at 8:23 AM, CincySportsFan said:

After hearing/reading several proposals for how to handle overtime, I'm going to propose my own hybrid model.

1) As much as I hate ties...to save wear and tear on bodies, there'd be no overtime in the regular season.  Perhaps we'd see some teams more likely to go for 2, if they score late, and really need the W.  It'd also eliminate teams burning the clock under two-minutes, and "playing for overtime", just because they're pinned deep in their own territory.

2) In the playoffs, overtime is not treated as a "new start".  There is no coin toss, there is no choosing directions, etc.  And in some situations, there'd be no kickoff.  After a brief pause (3 minutes?), you'd simply resume play where it ended in the 4th quarter.  Basically it'd be the same thing as going from the 1st to 2nd, and the 3rd to 4th quarter.  (If you want to change directions, so be it.  That's not a big point for me.)

3) You'd play for a 10-minute period.  Whoever has the lead at the end of the 10 minutes, wins the game.  If for some reason you're still tied, continue with the features from part 2, and you move to sudden death.

I like 1 and 2, but in the playoffs I want both teams to get at least one possession in OT. If both teams score on their first OT possession and the game is still tied, next possession starts at the 50 and teams alternate possessions starting at the 50 till one of them scores. First team to score wins.