Good, I was looking for some people to have reasons why it wouldn't work. Safeties would help simply because in my format, if the quarter ends with no team scoring 6 points, whoever has more points in the end wins. If the game was tied 21-21, and one team scores 5 and the other scores 3, then the team that scored 5 would win 26-24. The one thing that I would find interesting if teams were deep in their own territory up by 3, and they took a safety and punted deep. I haven't thought it all the way through yet either, but I think it would add a lot of strategy and fun to overtime, and it would make it fairer.
I've always felt it wouldbe best to play a full 15 min qtr and whoever was in the lead at the end of the 5th qtr would win the game
Flip a coin? I like the 5 point idea but do not think the NFL would appreciate games running for excessive amounts of time. Especially in the playoffs. God forbid they overlap.
Sorry if I misunderstood. When Cakes asked you if they go to sudden death, you said "no". You said they keep playing. When do they stop? If they keep tying at the end of the next quarter, then the game would go on indefinitely; something the TV and players association would have a major problem with. Screws up programming for TV and too much toll on the players.
The system is fine the way it is. There are three parts to a team with none being more important than the other. If Indy didn't want to go home, Indy should have stepped up.
I just wanted to add (sorry if it's been said)... On local radio stations, it seems like everyone wants the OT formula changed. They often say, 'How can you have OT decide a game, and the league MVP doesn't even get a chance to touch the ball' To which I reply, 'The league MVP had a chance to win the game, and instead got sacked' I don't think OT needs to be changed. I bet in most OT games, you can look back to the regular time, and see numerous mistakes by the players, and failures to capitalize. I'm sorry, both teams don't need to touch the ball in OT. You had 60 minutes to win. You didn't get it done. It might be a heart-breaking loss, but blaming the rules instead of your own play is wrong (for 99.9% of games).
That's a big IF. It's HIGHLY unlikely they would be tied after 2 extra OT's. I'd actually be okay if they lowered the time to 10 minutes on anything that could be played past the 1st OT. If they were tied after one OT during the regular season the game would end tied.
NFL overtime sucks! Fine leave it alone in the regular season. In the playoffs each team should get a chance to touch the ball. Regardless of who is playing in the game.
Ideas for overtime play I know this has been talked to death,,, but I just thought of a new one.. before you jump all over it think about it,,, then if you still think it sucks,,, flame away... Play it exactly as you do now , same coin flip, the only difference would be you get 3 downs instead of 4. I think it would be more exciting and would bring the kicking game into it a lot more as field possition would be key. longer field goal attempts, or punting to try and pin the other team back deep. what do you think?
If they can’t clinch a game in regular time; at the start of overtime any specialized kickers are out of the game, no field goal kicker, no punter, no one just for kick offs (let the QB do it as punishment). Each team gets a possession and if no one can score, both quarterbacks come out of the game. If that doesn’t work, the running backs come out of the game (so no kickers, quarterbacks, or running backs). If that doesn’t work then the teams are each forced to switch their defensive base (IE a 3 – 4 team has to play a 4 – 3 and the 4 – 3 has to play a 3 – 4) That should be incentive enough to win these god damn games in regulation and stop being conservative pussies and playing for ties. Overtime is a waste of time.
