Football NFL won't change the overtime rules

Sam Hall · 03-18-2009, 01:50 PM

By John Clayton
ESPN.com
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After further review, the NFL overtime rules won't change.

NFL Competition Committee co-chairman Rich McKay, speaking on a national conference call, said there will be no adjustment to the current overtime rules. The committee met for 10 days in Naples, Fla., and, after consulting players and conducting a league-wide survey from the 32 clubs, there wasn't enough support to make any proposal to change the current overtime rules, which were created to minimize the chance of ties.

There has been a recent push by fans for each team to have a possession in overtime. Players expressed concerns about safety issues if the current rules are changed. McKay said there has been a growing concern about the increasing number of games decided on the first possession after the overtime coin toss. In 2008, the team that won the coin toss had a 43.4 success rate in winning the game on the series following the coin toss. Overall, the team that won the coin toss had a 63 percent winning percentage regardless of the number of overtime possessions.

In other competitive items that will be discussed at next week's owners meeting in Dana Point, Calif., the committee recommended a reseeding proposal for the draft order in future years. Under the proposal, the 20 teams that didn't make the playoffs would be seeded based on their record as it is currently formatted. The change would involve teams making the playoffs. Those playoffs teams would be seeded in slots 21 through 32 and but they would drop in the positions based on how long they last in the playoffs.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have proposed a reseeding change in the playoffs that would reward non-division winners with better records a higher playoff seed than division winners with worse records.

In 2008, the Kansas City Chiefs proposed a rule change to limit the amount of hair coming out a helmet, but the Chiefs didn't resubmit that proposal this year, and it will not be discussed at the owners meeting.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3993657

Rooster · 03-18-2009, 01:54 PM

I really hate sudden death overtime in Football. It really needs changed IMO.

**BigMeatballDave** · 03-18-2009, 01:56 PM

****in cowards

**The Franchise** · 03-18-2009, 01:58 PM

The reseeding of the playoffs definitely needs to be changed.

Sam Hall · 03-18-2009, 02:03 PM

I can't believe they didn't change the overtime rules since there was so much talk about it. Seemed like a common sense thing to most people.

Chiefnj2 · 03-18-2009, 02:04 PM

Good. Teams should play to win in regulation and play some damn defense in overtime.

**BigMeatballDave** · 03-18-2009, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

Good. Teams should play to win in regulation and play some damn defense in overtime.

Giving up a 55 yd FG in OT doesn't mean you're D is bad.

**BigMeatballDave** · 03-18-2009, 02:15 PM

I'm OK with sudden-death OT, they should eliminate FGs in OT, though.

FAX · 03-18-2009, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rooster

I really hate sudden death overtime in Football. It really needs changed IMO.

Agreed.

The outcome of NFL football games should not be determined by coin flip.

FAX

**DeezNutz** · 03-18-2009, 02:23 PM

Is the league going to allow 22 teams into the playoffs, though? /the ****ing idiot who used to be in charge in KC/

FAX · 03-18-2009, 02:33 PM

There are tons of ways to handle a tie or deal with overtime if the NFLPA doesn't want to actually play the game some more and stuff. The head coaches could bare-knuckle the question at mid-field, for example. Or, the cheerleaders could strip and either applause or text message votes determine the winner. Or, each team could elect a representative to trade nut kicks on the 50-yard line with the first guy to cry "uncle" being the loser. Tons of ways.

FAX

talastan · 03-18-2009, 02:35 PM

I don't have a problem with either changing OT rules or for reseeding playoffs. The best teams should get in, regardless of rank in division. This IMO promotes a much more exciting regular season, and makes the playoffs that much more enjoyable and competitive with fans knowing that every team that made it deserves to be there.

Sam Hall · 03-18-2009, 02:36 PM

NFL to look into altering replay rule

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NFL will look into changing instant replay rules in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the blown call by referee Ed Hochuli that helped cost San Diego a game last season.

The competition committee will propose that when the ball comes loose when a quarterback is throwing, replay can be used to determine if it is a fumble or an incomplete pass. Such a change would resemble the rules alteration made for down-by-contact plays two years ago.

In the final minute of a game at Denver in Week 2, Hochuli ruled a ball that slipped from Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler's grasp was an incomplete pass instead of a fumble. The ball was recovered by the Chargers and Hochuli later acknowledged his decision was wrong.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html

**Bugeater** · 03-18-2009, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

Good. Teams should play to win in regulation and play some damn defense in overtime.

This.

CoMoChief · 03-18-2009, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bugeater

This.

Well sometimes it just doesn't play out like that. easier said than done. There are ties all the time.

They need to just make it where both sides get an offensive posession, if one scores only a FG, and the next team on offense scores a TD, then team #2 wins.

This is very simple.

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