NFL New Overtime Rule

[rightwinger]

New concept being considered is Extended Play

If the game ends and you have the ball on your opponents 35 yard line, you just keep the ball and continue the drive during an extended play period.

NFL overtime rules: ‘Extended period’ OT is gaining momentum - Sports Illustrated

The NFL could change OT rules this week, and a new idea may get more support than guaranteeing both teams possession. Plus, Buffalo and Detroit can celebrate and much more.

www.si.com

 

[Blues Man]

Just like you would at the end of a quarter of regulation play.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Why don't they just go back to a coin toss and each side 'sudden death' it till one scores?

Why do they have to keep rewriting the script?

Am headache.

 

[Penelope]

they would eliminate the coin toss.

 

[candycorn]

Just play a fifth quarter. Same rules as the previous 4 quarters....

This shouldn't be that difficult. If it ends in a tie...it ends in a tie. Two teams can be pretty evenly matched ya know.

 

[rightwinger]

Just play a fifth quarter. Same rules as the previous 4 quarters....

This shouldn't be that difficult. If it ends in a tie...it ends in a tie. Two teams can be pretty evenly matched ya know.

Do you start with a coin flip for possession or just continue play?

 

[odanny]

I like this idea, it changes how the team with possession would play late in the 4th quarter, maybe planning on just running the clock out. It would mean more games with OT.

 

[candycorn]

Do you start with a coin flip for possession or just continue play?

Continue play

 

[Blues Man]

Do you start with a coin flip for possession or just continue play?

you just continue play for another full quarter and keep doing so until someone is ahead when the clock runs out.

 

[rightwinger]

you just continue play for another full quarter and keep doing so until someone is ahead when the clock runs out.

I prefer sudden death in the extended period
You score, you win

None of this….If you get a FG, the other team gets a chance. If you get a TD, game over

 

[Blues Man]

I prefer sudden death in the extended period
You score, you win

None of this….If you get a FG, the other team gets a chance. If you get a TD, game over

I don't like sudden death it's no better than free kicks in soccer.

In baseball and basketball you play out the innings or the quarter why should football be different?

 

[22lcidw]

Just play a fifth quarter. Same rules as the previous 4 quarters....

This shouldn't be that difficult. If it ends in a tie...it ends in a tie. Two teams can be pretty evenly matched ya know.

I would do that and then go with the system they had until now. Wins and losses in a 17 game schedule means a lot for making and not making playoffs. As it is there may be tie breakers that eliminate teams even with expanded playoffs.

 

[candycorn]

I prefer sudden death in the extended period
You score, you win

None of this….If you get a FG, the other team gets a chance. If you get a TD, game over

So If the score is tied at the end of the fourth quarter and the Raiders have the ball on the one yard line. Time expires. Do you kick off and have a sudden death period or do the Raiders keep the ball on the one?

I don't understand the opposition to just playing a fifth quarter. Can you detail it?

 

[rightwinger]

So If the score is tied at the end of the fourth quarter and the Raiders have the ball on the one yard line. Time expires. Do you kick off and have a sudden death period or do the Raiders keep the ball on the one?

I don't understand the opposition to just playing a fifth quarter. Can you detail it?

The proposed plan would allow the Raiders to pick up where they left off when the game ended.

If they had the ball at the opponents one, they would probably kick a field goal before the end of regulation

But say they had the ball at their own one when the game ended and it was fourth down. They would start the extended period at fourth down at their own one

 

[sealybobo]

New concept being considered is Extended Play

If the game ends and you have the ball on your opponents 35 yard line, you just keep the ball and continue the drive during an extended play period.

NFL overtime rules: ‘Extended period’ OT is gaining momentum - Sports Illustrated

The NFL could change OT rules this week, and a new idea may get more support than guaranteeing both teams possession. Plus, Buffalo and Detroit can celebrate and much more.

www.si.com

I didn’t like the one where if you score a td and 2 point conversion the game is over. Just give the other team a chance period.

I’ll read the details on your option.

 

[sealybobo]

New concept being considered is Extended Play

If the game ends and you have the ball on your opponents 35 yard line, you just keep the ball and continue the drive during an extended play period.

NFL overtime rules: ‘Extended period’ OT is gaining momentum - Sports Illustrated

The NFL could change OT rules this week, and a new idea may get more support than guaranteeing both teams possession. Plus, Buffalo and Detroit can celebrate and much more.

www.si.com

If the 4th quarter ends and I have the ball on the 50, I keep playing. What if I score in ot? Does the other team get a chance?

 

[rightwinger]

If the 4th quarter ends and I have the ball on the 50, I keep playing. What if I score in ot? Does the other team get a chance?

Look at it as continuation of the 4th quarter

Next team to score wins, Sudden Death

Its more fair than flipping a coin

 

[sealybobo]

Look at it as continuation of the 4th quarter

Next team to score wins, Sudden Death

Its more fair than flipping a coin

I don’t like it. I can imagine Aaron Rogers has the ball on the 1 yard line with ten seconds to go. He needs to go 99 yards. You want to give him unlimited time?

 

[rightwinger]

I don’t like it. I can imagine Aaron Rogers has the ball on the 1 yard line with ten seconds to go. He needs to go 99 yards. You want to give him unlimited time?

I’ll take that over losing the coin flip and having him start the drive from the 25.

 

[sealybobo]

Look at it as continuation of the 4th quarter

Next team to score wins, Sudden Death

Its more fair than flipping a coin

I just don’t like the idea the game is over, tied, and the team with the ball gets to use that to their benefit.

Aaron Rogers has them within field goal range with time running out But it’s a 48 yrd try. 2nd down. Spike the ball and kick a field goal? Nope. Just keep running plays. Bullshit! Lol