Blazer026 Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Would prefer if it went back to 15 minutes, but whatever. I'd absolutely hate College OT though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKillerNacho Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 2 minutes ago, Blazer026 said: Would prefer if it went back to 15 minutes, but whatever. I'd absolutely hate College OT though. This... I was okay , even happy, with the rule prior to them shortening it for some stupid reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChazStandard Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Isn't the point of a league system that draws/ties count? Why not scrap OT in the regular season all together, and only use OT for the play-offs, but then make it more like soccer ET - you simply play another full quarter. After that...it goes to sudden death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKillerNacho Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 23 minutes ago, ChazStandard said: Isn't the point of a league system that draws/ties count? Why not scrap OT in the regular season all together, and only use OT for the play-offs, but then make it more like soccer ET - you simply play another full quarter. After that...it goes to sudden death. Eh... I'd prefer ties be rare. If you get rid of OT, you see like two ties per week. As for full quarter OT, I don't think the broadcasting companies would like that. It's the same reason they shortened OT to 10 minutes (no, it was not to protect players like they claimed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Small Town Values Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Ties are quite rare. So, I see no need to change the rules. Sometimes the teams are just equal, & neither side deserves to come out on top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malfatron Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 It feels like half the forum wants ties when you dont have a dog in the fight, myself imcluded. lets leave things the way they are. the ot rules lets people know if you have balls or if you go for the tie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerman Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 4 hours ago, Malfatron said: It feels like half the forum wants ties when you dont have a dog in the fight, myself imcluded. lets leave things the way they are. the ot rules lets people know if you have balls or if you go for the tie I disagree because if it’s my team I’d much rather a tie than a loss because someone kicked a long field goal in a sudden death situation. Honestly if they were really going to tweak overtime I’d do this.... 1. Two consecutive field goals win or the first touchdown wins. 2. No overtime until the playoffs and then in the playoffs it’s an extra ten minute quarter until someone wins. The NFL has the cheapest overtime in any sport. Basketball/baseball/soccer you just play an extra time period. Hockey lends itself more to sudden death because it doesn’t require possessions the same way as football. Football should just stay out of overtime until the playoffs when you need a winner. It’s too much of a deviation from the actual principle behind the sport. And way too many people make the argument that because teams kill themselves for 60 minutes they don’t deserve a tie so we should we would artificially create a scenario for someone to win. Which means one team killed itself for 60 minutes and we artificially manufactured a way for them to lose. Either do a full or shortened quarter that you have to play out or call the tie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pf9 Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 We've avoided ties by the skin of our teeth in two consecutive weeks. First at the Ravens-Browns game then the Bears-Dolphins game. Perhaps what the NFL's TV partners should do is force the league to adopt college OT rules as a condition of them continuing to do business with the NFL in the next contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August4th Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 so close to having like 3-5 more games end with the tie this yr.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerman Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 19 minutes ago, pf9 said: We've avoided ties by the skin of our teeth in two consecutive weeks. First at the Ravens-Browns game then the Bears-Dolphins game. Perhaps what the NFL's TV partners should do is force the league to adopt college OT rules as a condition of them continuing to do business with the NFL in the next contract. You are out of your mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 If a winner hasn't been determined after the time frame which it has been decided a game should last, then I don't see why we absolutely must have a winner for a run-of-the-mill regular season game. Playoffs, fair enough, but that's a different story altogether. You get ties in soccer, which is played religiously by billions of people around the world. You get ties in cricket, which is played by another billion or so mainly across a few Asian countries. Different cultures have different attitudes towards different things, I guess, but I don't really get the obsession in American sports about ties being this thing that needs to be eliminated/restricted in their frequency. Speaking as a European who regularly attends soccer games, in no way does a game feel ruined by there not being a winner declared at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-mac Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 On 14/10/2018 at 9:40 PM, pf9 said: We've avoided ties by the skin of our teeth in two consecutive weeks. First at the Ravens-Browns game then the Bears-Dolphins game. Perhaps what the NFL's TV partners should do is force the league to adopt college OT rules as a condition of them continuing to do business with the NFL in the next contract. Ties aren’t a bad thing from a TV ratings standpoint so I’m really not sure what your point is here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TENINCH Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 If there is a tie at the end of the game the win goes to the visiting team. Done!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Pence Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Award the win to the team with the most total yards. Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetsujin Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 FG kicking competition at the end of OT if still tied. Like a shootout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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