All In Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Seeing how the Cowboys were able to steal a game from the Giants last week, and this week how Giants marched right down the field. Why not implement the colllege OT system? So many OT games are decided by who gets the ball first. I wonder what the percentage of victory is when you win the coin toss. What do you guys think? Could it ever happen? I mean if they're thinking of going to 18 games, how far off would they be to implement the college system? What would it take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 NO. The college system only pits Offense vs. Offense. You should have to kickoff and return punts and stop teams in order to win in OT. I think there should be field position battles, etc since that is just as much a part of football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2cents Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 No!!!! I am sick of listening to sportscasters whine about this when it comes up. It is real simple, if you lose the toss PLAY DEFENSE!! If you can't stop them, stop whining, real winners don't let the team they stopped the enitre 2nd half waltz down the field like there is noone there to stop them. :2cents: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I'd personally take the NFL OT over college. What I'm wondering is why they can't institute a real OT, say an extra 5-10 minutes of regular football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 It's not whining. The team that loses the coin flip is at a disadvantage, plain and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Jumbo Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Originally posted by Skins_Freak Seeing how the Cowboys were able to steal a game from the Giants last week. I thought it took a while for the cowboys to beat the Giants in overtime? Wasn't there like 5 minutes left in OT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phat Hog Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I like the NFL OT rules. If you lose the toss, and your defense can’t stop the opponent – you deserve to lose plain and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 It would be pretty cool if they could play an entire period. Instead of sudden death, they play a full 10 or 15 minutes. It'd never fly since games top 3 hours already, but it's be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlanta Skins Fan Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 It *is* whining. The team played dumb most of the day and deserved to lose, but somehow still found itself with a 1st and 10 at the Giants 19 yard line with 1:44 on the clock. What followed was a sack on 1st down, and, on 3rd and 10, an incomplete pass combined with holding on Samuels (just to be safe). The offense could have avoided OT with a TD on that drive. Honestly, as many have said, we deserved to lose. That doesn't mean we suck, because we've got talent and some heart. But you can't rationalize every loss and pin it on officials and NFL OT rules. Sometimes, we just get beaten or we beat ourselves, and yesterday both things happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I like the idea of guarenteeing each team at least 1 offensive play. IE, if your team wins the toss and receives and subsequently scores a TD, you must then kickoff and the other team gets the ball. Or if you recieve and then turn it over, the other team can score and win. Just seems wrong that only 1 team gets a chance to win it. Kind of like playing extra innings and only letting 1 team bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J33Edwards Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I think the NFL overtime system is better...like someone else here said if you lose the coin toss and your defense can't stop your opponents you don't deserve to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennesseeCarl Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I'd like to get rid of the concept of OT and return to the era where if both teams finish the game with the same point totals, it counts as a tie. Why can't there be ties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 It is NOT whining. The premise of this thread is not arguing about a rule change that could have benefited the Redskins in yesterdays game but rather about the NFL OT rules in general. Deciding the outcome of a game on a coin flip is bs no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlanta Skins Fan Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Originally posted by Kilmer17 I like the idea of guarenteeing each team at least 1 offensive play. IE, if your team wins the toss and receives and subsequently scores a TD, you must then kickoff and the other team gets the ball. Or if you recieve and then turn it over, the other team can score and win. Just seems wrong that only 1 team gets a chance to win it. Kind of like playing extra innings and only letting 1 team bat. Not to be crass, but the NFL has bigger fish to fry than to do backflips for teams that couldn't do it regulation. Specifically, every guy in the league is more or less paid by the TV networks, which have big bucks riding on their planned schedules. The reason overtime rules are the way they are is so the NFL doesn't screw their paymasters with endless overtime games. They want the shortest possible route to a plausibly fair winner, and that's why the rules are the way they're written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Id be fine with ties, more than I am with the current system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsplayboy Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I dont like the college overtime but i was thinking this what if the giants would have won the toss got the ball kicked a field goal and then kicked the ball to us different then college overtime because you got to go the entire lenth of the field to score what do you guys think?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Brown #43 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Originally posted by Phat Hog I like the NFL OT rules. If you lose the toss, and your defense can’t stop the opponent – you deserve to lose plain and simple. From a fairness standpoint, this argument makes no sense. Imagine in baseball if a game were tied going into the tenth inning. Say the visiting team scores a run in the top of the tenth, but then the home team is not given a chance to bat in the bottom of the tenth to try and tie the game or go for the win. Would you then say, "Well, you didn't stop them in the top of the inning, so you deserve to lose." That's absurd. We'll never know what the Skins would have done if they were given a possession in OT. OK, the Giants kicked a field goal. But maybe we would have scored a touchdown. We'll never know, and therein lies the flaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 no, the college system is dumb. you get a chance to win the toss in OT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I like the NFL overtime but to make it better you have to win by a TD no field goals allowed Then that would be a lot more exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 That would certainly be a compromise I could live with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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