NFL Overtime Ideas for Competition Committee

Then, you would have ties galore

 

I don't think so. 2 FGs will do it. It will probably never happen because it make the coach's job a lot harder & the strategy more interesting - do you kick a FG on your 1st possession at 4th & 3? 4th & 6? etc.

 

Play the entire 15 minutes. If they're still tied at that point, game over.

 

Never going to happen - too much football, too much potential for injury. Many of these guys are done in the 4th quarter, to play a full 5th that regularly wouldn't get past the league or the PA.

 

It might if they get a 25% increase in their game check for true "overtime".

 

That's why it needs to be like college football, but not exactly like college football. Those two 7 OT SEC games were absurd.

 

That's the best idea out there. I don't see them ever changing it except maybe for the playoffs because they don't want the potential for the six overtime games that you sometimes see in college. The NFL does not want games running an hour long under any circumstances.

 

2 FGs would require... minimum... three possessions.

 

so?

 

If three possessions is MINIMUM, that would make 4-4.5 possessions the average.

Ties galore.

 

I like the idea of giving each team at least one offensive possession, too, but I don't like giving teams the ball at a certain starting spot on the field, like high school and college. Why not just play the normal way, with kickoffs? Team A gets the ball first, drives down and scores, then kicks off to Team B. If Team B doesn't tie the game or take the lead on its possession, Team A wins. If it does tie the game, then it goes to sudden death.