Titans coach is an advocate of proposal heading into NFL owners meetings Aaron Wilson
Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher, the co-chair of the NFL competition committee, is one of the architects of a proposal to change the overtime format for the postseason.
The format is intended to prevent a team from winning the game on a field goal on the first possession of overtime.
The proposal will be voted on at the NFL owners meetings in Orlando, Fla., this week and would allow a team that wins the coin toss to be able to win the game with a touchdown on the first possession of overtime.
A field goal would allow the other team to get one possession to tie the game or win it with a touchdown.
A game-tying field goal would make the game a sudden-death situation form that point onward.
And if both teams failed to score on their first possessions during a playoff game, the rest of the overtime would be decided under a sudden-death format.
“What we don’t want to have happen in the playoffs is a kickoff return, and then a penalty and a field goal, and have the game be over,” Fisher said, per NFL.com. “What we’re proposing has sudden-death qualities throughout it, even at the beginning. … Bottom line is that each team will have an opportunity to possess — doesn’t guarantee a possession.”
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Why tinker with something that is NOT BROKEN?? If you lose the coin flip...play effing defense and stop your opponent or block a kick. This is a Mickey Mouse proposal that will confuse half the viewing audience.
If you change anything at all about OT, keep it simple...e.g. a 5 minute overtime quarter.
Because, Greg, it is broken. The facts prove that the coin flip winner wins the majority of the time on its drive. That's not opinion, that's a fact. You can scream all you want about play D, etc. and you'd have a case if it came out about 50/50. But you don't, so why defend what so many agree is a patently absurd way to end a game.
This takes away the purely statistical edge of the flip and puts the game back in the hands of both units. I feel it makes so much sense it should have been enacted years ago.
Really, what is wrong with it? And base your arguments on facts please, not opinion, or that's how it's been done, or play D or any of the run of the mill crap that gets thrown out in this argument.
People, the NFL is trying to right a wrong.
I agree with Greg. An overtime mini-quarter makes the most sense. The contest would continue to resemble a football game and not become the folly similar to what we see now in college ball.
Why not just make it a field goal kickin contest! Start at 40yds, then keep moving back 5 yards until somebody misses. Plenty of excitement for the fans with minimal risk to the players..
BearMarket: Since 1994, when the overtime kickoffs were moved from the 35-yard line to the 30, teams winning the coin toss have won 58.9% of overtime games compared to 46.8% from 1974 and 1993. We also have the impact of rule changes favoring offense, field turf replacing grass in several stadiums, and more domes resulting in higher FG accuracy and we still are under 60%, so I don't think the coin flip is the problem. Now, moving the kickoff back to the 30 in OT I agree with.
This is the wrong time to be worrying about overtime rules. How about agreeing on a CBA first?
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Mar 20, 2010
02:41 PM
Why tinker with something that is NOT BROKEN?? If you lose the coin flip...play effing defense and stop your opponent or block a kick. This is a Mickey Mouse proposal that will confuse half the viewing audience.
If you change anything at all about OT, keep it simple...e.g. a 5 minute overtime quarter.