NFL OT Rule Change | Everything You Need To Know

according to sources the nfl is looking at modifying their overtime playoff model during the post season only to give each team a possession many people are dug into either side of the argument either you want to change to the current model which allows the team with the ball first to win the game if they score a touchdown or you don't i've been a proponent of changing the rule for a while now and while i'm glad to see some movement occurring on changing it i question why you would only change it for the postseason to me that signals you believe the postseason should be separate from the regular season when it comes to actual rules of the game and that doesn't make any sense the rule should change but it should change for both the regular season and the postseason not one or the other how are teams supposed to prepare for something if they aren't doing it until the post season starts what other sport i know some people talk about nhl a little bit has different rules for postseason compared to regular season when it comes to overtime where you don't have a shootout the math doesn't add up each team should get a possession and should have to go for two after they score a touchdown if they do score a touchdown a great example of why the rules should change is look at the chiefs and bills from a year ago you could almost call to josh allen rule and not even allowing a team a chance is counterproductive so good on the nfl for eyeing the need to adjust but let's just adjust everything together i'm going to bring in my co-host blane crane david coney here guys i love where the nfl's heads at but just like it seems whether it's the nfl or the ncaa you're staring down the barrel of the right answer but you want to go the furthest way around just doing the most logical thing why would you have a different overtime rule for the regular season as opposed to the postseason because even if you went to the model of you're going from the 25-yard line and in to score a touchdown eventually one team is going to win it's not gonna ping pong back and forth on long drives for each team uh in in the postseason in overtime as opposed to during the regular season why don't we just do all of it the same i agree explain it to me over time in the nfl has been a problem right and they make it a little bit better i mean forgive me for not just coming out with a full congratulations here we could have just completely solved the problem with not that much more effort here's the thing in the nfl regular season there's only 16 games like just go ahead and fix it for that too because every game does matter like it matters to these teams we're not talking about 162 games schedule here they could end in a tie even though i'm of the mindset that no professional sporting event should ever end in a tie hockey baseball anything like that all you're saying to your fan base at that point is we play too many games and they don't really matter so they can just end in a tie this is why i think college football the overtime in college football is so much better than in the in the nfl it's basically a microcosm the game gets whittled down to its essence the farther you go in the college game which i really like which is if we haven't figured it out over the course of an entire football game we're each going to start at the 25 yard line and we're going to figure it out you try and score we'll try and stop you after that if we still haven't figured it out we're going to start at the 2 yard line we're going to try and score you try and stop us i like that both teams get a possession it seems like an easy fix well this is good like i understand what y'all are saying if you're going to do to the playoffs you might as well do it to the regular season yes i know what they did and what they were thinking okay so if you look at the numbers during the season or when it comes to overtime the team who gets the ball first wins 55 of the time yep it ticked up a little bit okay and the playoffs the team who gets the ball ball first wins 90 percent of the time look it up it's 90 look it up and the difference is in the playoffs you play what you play against better what quarterbacks where are you getting that yeah that's that's the difference i heard it multiple times my question well okay seven had 12 7 or 12 games yeah but the team who's gotten the ball first and over in the playoffs you're talking about regardless if they scored a touchdown or not if they got the ball first if they got the ball first won the game okay okay 90 of the time so because you play you play against better quarterbacks so what that's what it comes down to and people go back and they always think well it's the bills bill's chiefs sure the josh allen rule yeah but go a couple years before that all right you remember the patrick mahomes chiefs patriots chiefs patriots game where patrick holmes didn't touch the ball i know and if you're an nfl owner it's just it's so unfair in my opinion the way they had it that's why i'm glad they changed it i mean i believe the head coaches 36 times in a row in overtime the coin flip if you won the coin flip you got the ball first but if you're but okay what what my my question is though okay we can look at the numbers we can do that but if you're saying in the postseason when it matters the most when it's the most prevalent to get everything right this is the best way to do it but during the regular season we're just going to keep doing it i i don't feel like how how do you arrive on two different conclusions either this rule is better and it's it's you could say more fair everything in life isn't fair but how can you say this rule is so good we're going to use it for the postseason but the regular season nah we're just going to keep it safe that'd be like if they're like you know what in the in the in the bowl games in the college football playoff we won't kick you out for targeting but during the regular season we'll kick you out of the game for targeting how i i don't i don't get how you mince those two i would would just say the drastic difference in between winning that in the regular season and winning that in the play but how do you get in the playoffs yeah again every game it counts i'm not saying it doesn't and if it was if it was me i would have changed it for the regular season too i'm just saying off the numbers they had the data they had they saw 55 and then they saw 90 and if it's a new rule right i could kind of go back to the because the last rule they changed was the past interference rule right or the extra point all right it was or the extra point but i'm pretty sure it's a past interference where you could review it you could review it then you couldn't yeah right right was that only during the playoffs no that was no name one name another rule that only happens during the playoffs the the only thing i could think other than the numbers is they did it because it's a new rule right and you kind of want to test it a little bit before you make it every game and the drastic this is the drastic playoffs because the drastic number difference once 90 percent the other one's 55 percent i mean that's if you won the ball first at the playoffs you're losing that i mean you're winning that game was it josh allen the quarterbacks you have you're winning that game that's why it's 90 and i'm not saying every game doesn't matter but i can see why they just did it for the playoffs see i i can't see because to me it just you muddied up the whole issue like i'm not i'm not understanding why we have to separate the playoffs from the regular season the rule of th and it's not like overtime is some crazy bylaw rule that's like a tie breaker that doesn't happen yeah five or six games like this is going to happen yeah and to not do it in the regular season when you could be trying to clinch a playoff birthday we can say it's against better quarterbacks but when when you're playing in the playoffs don't go don't go to overtime with teams of bad players does players safety come in well i don't think by adding a possession yeah not by adding a possession and well i could be more than a possession honestly getting the ball first isn't only advantageous if you score on the first drive like if you go down and score and then the other team comes back and score you still get the ball first the next time with your better offensive personnel right this is why what i like about college both teams get a possession and then it switches right on the very first one you can elect to be on defense first just so the other team you can get a chance to see if the other team scores or not maybe you could get a bit away with winning with just a field goal yeah i understand that that's advantageous in that scenario but here it doesn't it doesn't flip it just keeps starting yeah and and again that's why i think you should have to go for two after every touchdown okay so like for example two teams are playing they go into overtime i don't care if the if it's the playoffs or the regular season and team a gets the ball first they go down score touchdown gotta go for two they either get it or they don't team b gets the ball they go down and score a touchdown they gotta go for two to me i the odds of you going multiple possessions of people when you're going for two doesn't add to the player safety thing to me but i just will not understand why you would put a rule in place for something as big as overtime just for the playoffs when it matters the most as opposed to doing something different for the regular season because you're telling me that the rules not that good so we're changing but we're going to leave it for the regular seasons which is more games than the playoff in today's modern sports i guess we should just be grateful for small victories what no i'm not i'm not buying anything at the playoffs if you're gonna change it change it for everything hey everybody if you like what 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