the overtime rule.
I was a little nervous. I was a little concerned.
I was worried there may not be a consensus around anyone
approach, which causes the NFL, sometimes to say, let's just
keep doing what we're doing for the postseason.
Both teams, have the opportunity to possess the ball.
And if the score is tied after each, team has possessed
the ball, once it then becomes Mike tomlin's preference of sudden
death. He doesn't fear sudden death. He'll still get sudden
death.
After the first two possessions,
and really after,
after the first teams had a possession of the is possessed
the ball. If they don't score can still be sudden death
because then the second team can win with a field goal or
touchdown. And Chris, you know, when you think about it,
and I don't know that they could call this an unintended
consequence because unintended consequence to me is failure of
imagination because it allowed hard to sit down and just kind
of BS back and forth about all the different ways. This is
going to
go. And I'll tell you one way, it's going to go.
You have teams that win the toss and kick,
you're going to have that happen a lot. Especially if
weather is a factor at all. If wind is an issue at all home,
field advantage you're going to have. I think a lot more teams
now are going to be very inclined to kick because yeah,
if you give up a touchdown on the first drive,
you're going to know exactly what you need. You got four
down territory, the full length of the field and then you hold
the Fate In Your Hands. You score a touchdown assuming
the team that had it first gets seven. Yeah, go for the win.
And to go for the loss because the other alternative is sudden
death. So
I, I love that aspect of it. Where
Marty morning Wags
decision from two thousand two or three. Where he kicked to
start over. Time isn't going to be as crazy anymore.
Not going to be as crazy. I'm with you and then fact I think
that will be the really the plan of attack for most teams
and O gauge it out. Let's see, maybe we stop them and we get
the ball and feel good field goal position.
Like you said, you know what you want and I think you hit on
the other unintended consequences. At least. That's
what I thought. Of and I'll go again. This rule is got
the spotlight on it because the why
the Mahomes Josh Allen shootout that was maybe the last or
the most exciting last five minutes. We've ever watching
a football game ever in the history of football. We didn't
get to see that. So yes the kicking off and over time
but I you know to what you're saying the the go for two
for the second team that scores one team scores a touchdown.
Now the other team gets the ball against a chance.
I would think in a game like we saw in that divisional
Oh Sunday
bills Chiefs. That would be the game. You'd see it McDermott
would make the decision to go. You know what our defense
I give up. We're not going to stop my homes and them, that's
it. We're going to go down right here. Josh Adams in
a win, the game,
or we're going to lose.
Here we go. And I think that's the other unintended
consequence of this that I really like, I really do. So,
I think it was the appropriate change. I'm glad they didn't do
it
even in the regular season.
I think it's special just to have this in
postseason. Play not drag on the game.
As you know, we weren't about you, Noah, guess it is a 17
Game season and all that you get to the playoffs.
Hey, it's the better teams, the better quarterbacks. We don't
want to see teams go out like that. I guess that's why
there's a little added emphasis to me and I'm glad they made
the change and they can't call it an unintended consequence.
It's an expected consequence. I think,
because you do sit down and you talk it out and you think at
three, that's what makes sense, right? That's what I always
hate when they say unintended
because unintended
Just implies to me that they have their heads up their
asses. Pardon me when they're when they're in the room doing
their jobs of understanding and imagining how this is going to
work.
Once you put it into practice. I think we kind of know ya how
it's going to work. Right? The only thing you have to do,
though. If you're going to kick to start over time, you're
giving up that opportunity
to begin the sudden death phase
with the ball. If you go 77,
that's right. Six.
33 or 88
to begin the scoring of overtime, right? Yeah, that
that is your right. That's the risk. You're going to take
wait. We kick off. They score. We score now. They get the ball
and if they score,
the game is over
and maybe that's what's ways. People are make something twice
about it. It's that's again. That's one of those things.
You're going to have to evaluate your team. What they
are during the season. How good are we on defense? And then
not only the season thing, but
I think to this scenario, you're going, Evaluate the game
and just the actual game and the flaw and what's going on
there, your injuries, your team healthy, you know, we knew that
made the difference from McDermott in that game
as far as some people banged up in the secondary and issues
like that to where it changed their thought process. So yeah,
I would think all those things come into play here, Mike, but
the appropriate move and it sounds like it
got pushed through pretty easily. Right? That a lot 2:31.
Yeah. So the 29th at scared to hear, Falcons are glad it
wasn't 28 to 31
miles Simmons, made that point.
Yeah, but you know what? The Falcons in that game? Yeah,
that game. What a got a chair gotten the ball. Right would
have got the ball
and that didn't make the Ruckus that it did because the big
story in that game was the Patriots, overcoming
the deficit. Yeah, the Patriots winning with a touchdown on
the first drive over time. Frankly. It
it was kind of like to me
no matter what the overtime rules are the Patriots win that
game half day. I was back from 2:32. They're winning that
game. The Falcons are done. They're just like us the hell
out of here. Take the take the freaking Trophy.
This is just details. Now as to how
the Patriots win this game,
the
the only
and I am reluctant to mention this because I think it's kind
of goofy. I've seen people make this argument anticipating that
people will say, well
if it's tied 7-7
you you each team scores and then
then like if the Chiefs if the Chiefs had scored seven,
the bill scores seven and the Chiefs get again. Well, Josh
Alan should get a second chance. No, no, no. No
because if the chief scores seven and the bills, go down
the field. They have an opportunity to win the game
with their offense. Yeah, if they choose to do it,
they can they can avoid sudden death if they choose to do it.
So at least they have a fair chance,
at least they have an opportunity and how thrilling
that would have been. If the chief score take one.
They're up by seven
Bills score and decide to go for two.
That would have been a moment. Yeah, and maybe We'll get that
moment. All those
miles Simmons and I were talking about yesterday too,
there probably won't be another overtime. Playoff game for
a dozen years. Now, we have right now that they finally fixed
over time II, don't know. Don't worry. And the AFC, we're going
to have it with these quarterbacks.
There were going to have, it will get to see this
for sure. They're just there to good. They got too many weapons
at their disposal. Most of these quarterbacks disposal,
not disposable
at their at, you know, at their disposal. I just the way
the rules are. I think we'll see it. We definitely will.
And I'm with you, too.
Mike. Yes, the the fact that you get the chance to go for
two.
Would that second position possession. And then the game
though that squash is the argument of oh we should get
the ball again to and you know at some point we got to draw
a line here. And again,
there's like we talked about it's a million-dollar pliers on
the defensive side of the ball to they got to make a stop.
It's that can't always be perfectly fair for everybody.
This is in the second grade YMCA League where everybody
gets a blue ribbon. For great participation.
Yeah. Not, everything's going to be perfect what they're
doing here. I think is the best possible thing they can do for
right now.
It is very fair, especially with the fact that like you
said that second team can go for two and then the game. So
I liked it and yeah, I saw some of that on Twitter and social
media to, but come on.
Yeah, look
the only way to eliminate that concern that there is
a lopsided opportunity to do whatever is necessary to be
done. In overtime is to switch to
the college system.
Where there's always a chance to match
or my preferred?
Approach, which they won't do, because it's too gimmicky,
which we're going to see begin next month with the usfl,
the two-point conversion, shootout, where you go back and forth and
back and forth trying to score from the 2-yard line.
They're going to do it three times each in the usfl. And
then after that, they go back and forth until somebody gets
it in. Somebody, doesn't in theory. It could last forever.
Yeah. We saw a college game that lasted forever like that.
Last year. What was that? Penn State?
And somebody, I can't remember exactly who. Was Pete, maybe
you'll remember. But yeah, to me that's not really football.
It's not, it's not taking, it's taking a lot of factors of
the game out of it,
and it was Penn State, Illinois, where to go Pete
coming up with their 9 over X. Listen, that like it. I was
watching
it really wasn't that cool after like overtime for it was
kind of like, oh my gosh because some of it was bad too,
but you're a little bit like, you know, again, it's not
football from the 2-yard line and some of that stuff. It
just, it doesn't seem the same.
I don't want to see that.
And there's the other problem to from the standpoint of
preparing to play in a game. How many two-point conversion
plays and short yardage type plays, are you going to have
how many and hold back? You know, when you
get to that stage of the game, where all you're doing is going
for two.
You may be out of options. You may be going back and doing
things you did earlier. It's just it's got look, I like it
from the standpoint of you can present it in a way. That would
be very compelling and I've suggested. Yeah. 44
guys on the field,
25 seconds between
Queen plays split the officiating crew and just ping,
pong it back and forth that would make for a very
compelling two or three minutes until it was all resolved. But
it's not real football, right? They wanted a changed over
time.
If they were going to do one,
that would have been a continuation of the game of
football, with special teams. Of fact, exactly defense,
normal stuff right at Play.