Is the NFL changing the OT rules?

the one good thing that comes with the nfl season ending is when all the teams meet with the league and talk about implementing new rule changes to the league some rules that were added or changed in this meeting recently have been the touch back to the 25 instead of the 20-yard line back in 2016. the jersey number change that came last year and there was a new rule last year that there was no overtime in preseason games which i honestly don't understand why they would have overtime in preseason anyways but with a new meeting coming up this offseason everyone has their eyes set on a rule that has been in the news the last couple of playoffs and we are of course talking about the overtime rule in which if one team scores a touchdown the other team does not get the chance to touch the ball now i do not know how many people remember this but the overtime rules used to be way worse than this when one team could just go down the field and kick a field goal and that would win without the other team touching the ball and this was back until 2010 when they changed the rule to the touchdown which we have now this was obviously a terrible rule as a field goal is a lot easier than scoring a touchdown on your first possession and then another team doesn't even get a chance just because you let up a fuel goal and now teams are looking to change the new overtime rule with the indianapolis colts submitting a proposal to guarantee both teams of possession and overtime rich mckay chair of the nfl's competition committee said possible changes to overtime rules will undoubtedly be brought up when the committee meets this week according to batista there is also the chance that the league chooses to change the rule for both their regular and the postseason or they can choose to only change it for the post season and i personally i believe that there isn't much reason to change the rule for the regular season the games are obviously still important but the gap in the winning percentage between the team that wins the coin toss and the team that loses the coin toss is very slim in the regular season and does not seem to be an issue obviously the two biggest games that i heard complaining about the rule was when the patriots beat the chiefs in the afc championship game and then this past postseason when the chiefs beat the bills in overtime and probably the best game of the postseason where patrick mahomes showed us how much a guy can do with 10 seconds it is worth noting that mckay said that is unclear how much support a change to the overtime rules would have in the teams but it would need 24 out of 32 teams to side with the change for it to be enacted it is hard to tell if the nfl teams really care enough to change this rule or if it's just the public that is tired of this rule as i said before these same complaints were seen when the chiefs lost to the patriots and no rule changes came then after that so this does not guarantee that anything will be done about it now i personally do not believe that the current rule is that bad i think you're an nfl team and if you need to stop on defense to give your team a chance then you have to have a good enough defense to not be able to let up a touchdown in 2021 20.5 percent of drives ended in a touchdown which helps further prove that is just because you win the coin toss does not mean that you're guaranteed to win the game it does not seem that big of an issue in the regular season as the teams that wins the coin toss only wins around 52.8 percent of the time which does not seem like an overwhelming advantage that would make fans go crazy but the most interesting stat is that the teams that win the coin toss in overtime in the playoffs is 10 and 2 which seems to show an obvious advantage there with the only teams that lost after winning the coin toss being the saints when they lost to the rams in 2018 which i think we can all agree that that game should not have even gone into overtime and the chiefs losing to the bengals this past year after winning the toss but if you heard the crowd's reaction after the chiefs won that toss on that game you can tell that the fans all thought that game was over after they won the toss my main complaint though isn't that i'm against the rule changes to overtime to make it fair my biggest complaint is that people say they want the college overtime rules and act like those rules are perfect the college overtime rules were so bad that they had to make it so they do two-point conversion play after play after a couple of times of overtime and if people believe that nfl offenses can march 80 yards down the field and score a touchdown that easily in the normal overtime rules that we have now they can definitely move 25 yards down the field and score a touchdown over and over again going touchdown for touchdown exchanging each team and that would make the game last forever or if they do end up taking the two-point conversion change that the college has then your team loses because of a crappy play that is almost never used in football i think college overtime rule is not the solution but i would be interested to hear other changes that teams would propose because i do think that the rule could be improved and make it more fair while also not extending the game to last forever another change that the league is also looking at you can look out for is with punting they say that puntings have a disproportionately high concussion rate and that they will be looking to make changes to make it safer but thankfully they also do confirm that they are not looking to eliminate puns which is great for the game as special teams can be a huge factor in games such as the 49ers and packers and the playoffs in which the packers lost in part due to their mediocre special teams mckay also states that there will not be any changes to replay and he believes that replay had a great year this past year thanks for watching and be sure to like and 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