NFL Will Reduce Overtime to 10 Minutes
 

The owners have approved a rule change to reduce overtime to 10 minutes. Anyone who loves to see tie games should be overjoyed.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...-to-10-minutes

Based on history, overtime games could be about 49 seconds of game time shorter on average and it looks like this could triple the number of expected tie games each year.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...u-are-in-luck/

So they are going from 15 -10 and - another 10 minutes? So they will quit games 5 minutes before end of regulation? Wow that's really weird thing to do.

Gonna go back and rewatch the last 20 minutes of the Chiefs Bronocs game at Denver, but stop with 5 minutes left and see how I feel.

Tie games are for quitters.


Need college OT rules. NFL OT rules are as relevant as leather helmets.

Ummm.... no.

Games will still have 4 15 minute quarters. No changes to the time in regulation.

Overtime is being shortened from 15 minutes to 10. This will lead to more ties for seemingly no good reason. Its the dumbest rule change in a while.

This will probably make them a little more frantic, hurried, more throwing.

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Seems a little odd to cut it down to 10 minutes and still keep the rule of allowing the team that kicks off a chance to score if they give up a FG. I can see a team taking 7 minutes off the clock and kicking a FG, and the other team having just enough time to manage a game tying drive instead of going for the TD.

It's great. The team that gets the ball back after giving up a FG will be forced with some tough decisions because of the limited time. You either kick a FG and go for tie (knowing you could still lose and probably won't get the ball back), or go for 4th downs to get the TD and win.

I'm not a fan of this one. I'd guess that the first team to get the ball will try and run a drive that's slower in pace so that the second team doesn't have much time on the clock (assuming team 1 has to kick a field goal).

It just doesn't seem like this one has enough benefits to outweigh the drawbacks.

Plus, ties are great. Less dumb ****ing tiebreaker criteria for the playoffs.

And that will encourage Team 2 to go for the TD instead of a game-tying FG. Good football.

Well, sure, that's true if you're not trying to make overtime fair.

It was Q.

Ties are ****ing weak.

I didn't say they would be obligated to go for the TD. They have a chance to tie it if they wish. It's as fair as the NFL overtime rules have ever been and it's not the clown show that NCAA OT is.

It's the regular season. Who gives a ****? 4-team tiebreaker criteria is ****ing weak.

The NFL is being indiotic. No pro game should end in a tie. No other sport allows it but the biggest one does? Why?

This post is funny because Soccer is the biggest sport in the world and allows for a tie.

Rather than ***** about ties why don't you criticize both teams for not doing what it takes to win it outright? Why force a team to have to take a 'W' when they didn't have what it took to earn it.

Prevents injuries and allows everyone to move on with their day.

If this were the playoffs, different story.

Soccer isn't a sport

Each team gets 2 minutes and the ball on the 20 yard line. You've got 2 minutes and 3 timeouts to drive 80 yards and score.

I think this is wishful thinking in a way. How many times did we(fans) want to go for the throat only to see Marty,Herm,Romeo whomever curl up in a ball and play scared? Like others have stated I don't like adding the strategy of time consuming fg drive to win game if you receive. I think this will lead to more ties which suck. More play not to lose strategy.

Seems silly to me.

Neither the Cardinals nor the Seahawks deserved to win their game that ended in a tie last season. I'm not in favor of "more" ties, but to say they have no place in sport is asinine.

No overtime except in playoffs and make it sudden death.

Defense matters. If you can't make a stop, you don't deserve to win.

No they have overtime right in that sense. When its sudden death there is too much advantage in winning the coin flip.

I think the QBs should line up at the 50 and take turns kicking each other in the nuts until one can't get back up, and the one left standing is the winner. And obviously carried off the field by the team.

Originally thought of dodgeball, but we would lose every single time with Smith.

At the same time on opposite ends. First to score!

As long as we're posting silly gimmick OT rules, here's one. Coin flip, winner gets ball on the 50, and they only run one play. TD wins, otherwise other team takes over where the play ends and runs one play. If they also do not get a TD, winner is determined by which side of the 50 the ball ends up on. You can wrap the game up in just 2 minutes.

I'd pay to watch that shit.

Meaningless garbage. I wish they would focus on the real issues instead of these cosmetic changes.

we'd win OT every time if that were the case. What, with Alex lacking balls and all.

Get rid of the kickoff.

The team that loses the coin flip has to choose a yard line. Let's say they choose the 15. The team that won the toss can either start on offense, 1st and 85 or start on defense.

If you made that change, I would be ok going back to sudden death. Even if both teams have better offenses than defenses and even if you lose the coin toss, you could choose to go all the way down to the 1 yard line if you really think both offenses are that much better than the defenses.

Amen

So we automatically lose?

Just like golf.

If we win the coin toss and treat the first possession like a 2 minute drill, we'll win.

We have the best 7 and a half minute 2 minute drills.

what

Yes, let's make football more like soccer. /nobody

Stupid


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I said it in the other thread... but it makes sense that we'd see more ties. I'm pretty sure the number of ties have jumped since they went to the new OT rules. Each team can get a FG and not score the rest of the way. This will probably just make it worse. Is that worth 5 less minutes of football?

Sometimes this won't matter, but it'll at least be possible to go on a 7 minute FG drive and put the other team in a bind.

The NFL should have left it the way it was. Sudden Death Overtime. The fate of the coin toss and whichever team wants it more.

This rule has everything to do with advertising revenue, and nothing to with making the game any better.

The only good to come of this is that maybe teams will change strategy to get the win under that ten minute window.

Ties are ****ing reeruned.

Soccer is a socialist sport.:D

This post funny because he fat/Leslie Chow

Ties are like participation trophies...

So are blow jobs

see no upside to this

I can't wait for the first tie where a player in the post-game press conference says, "We gave 100 percent for all 4.66 with a bar over it quarters, but we couldn't pull off the win."

... So player safety?

Huh?

Everything the NFL does is money related. Where have you been?

OK so we are back to the coin flip potentially deciding games. If you lose the flip, the other team could conceivable burn through 7 minutes of clock settling for a FG and leave the team that lost the flip with only 3 minutes to score.

****ing brilliant

Your and indiot!

Go **** yourself ernest