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Originally Posted by stevegroganfan
Less than optimal change by the NFL. Instead of this change, they should have done a simpler change of road team chooses the starting field position from the end zone at start of OT. Home team gets to choose whether to take the ball at that position or defer.
So if Bills had chose 3 yard line and Chiefs wanted the ball, the Chiefs get to start the game at their own 3 yard line. If Chiefs deferred, Bills have to start at their own 3 yard line.
The advantage of this is it pretty much evens things out and let's the team decides while on average getting the game over quicker compared to the new way of doing things. It is a disadvantage to the winner of an OT playoff game to have a long OT game and then have to play the next week.
The only good thing about this change, it is still way better than the gimmicky college way of doing things.
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Where did this gimmicky bullshit come from? It's been mentioned a few times now. It's a fun concept, but completely reeruned to actually think it should be a thing... turning the coin toss into a game of analytics.
HFA --> get to choose to start OT. Far simpler and in the playoffs it's based on something you've already earned, and makes the regular season a bit more meaningful.