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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
Playoff overtime should probably somehow involve both teams having an opportunity on offense.
As is it's kind of like declaring a winner in a ball game after one team scores in the top of the 10th
It's not like NFL OT rules are set in stone. Not long ago any first score used to win.
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It’s NFL football. You can play 15 innings of baseball and the only guys who’ll really feel it are the catchers and the bullpens.
Winning a coin toss and kicking a field goal is dumb. The whole point of the rule as it’s written is to avoid that.
21% of OT games since the rules were changed have ended on 1st possession touchdowns.
The NFL doesn’t want marathon unending OT games like hockey. The purpose of OT is to end the game. Every play, every series, is a potential extra ACL tear, concussion, not to mention the lack of revenue from games going to OT - the NFL doesn’t get paid extra for that.
Teams have 60 minutes to win the game. They’re not guaranteed The same number of possessions. Nobody cries about it.
The #1 defense in football should’ve earned its money. Or not let Mahomes get into FG range in 13 seconds.