Should the NFL overtime rules be changed?

[Deberg_1990]

Forehead did not seem pleased.....


http://seattletimes.com/html/seahawk...post22xml.html


The winner of a classic football game should never be determined by pure, dumb luck.
Unlike the Super Bowl, the only difference Sunday between the Broncos and Seattle was a flip of the coin. “We felt like we were the better team,” Broncos defensive tackle Terrance Knighton said.

Not to take anything away from the Seahawks’ 26-20 overtime victory against Denver, but if there’s anything we’ve learned from the NFL of late, it’s this: What’s fair got to do with anything in this league? And the more the rules change, the less we trust that justice is truly being served.

After Denver rallied from a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter on the road in the NFL’s rowdiest stadium, the silence of stunned Seahawks fans was deafening as quarterback Peyton Manning represented the Broncos on the coin flip to determine which team would get the football to begin overtime.
Manning called tails.
The Seahawks won.
NFL overtime rules are stupid.

“It puts a premium on the coin toss,” Manning said. “I called tails at the beginning of the game, and went with it again in overtime. It was heads, and it proved to be a significant call. But that’s the way it is. And you’d like to not leave it to that, leave it to get to that situation.”
Manning was forced to stand and watch as Seattle marched 80 yards for a touchdown on the opening possession of overtime. No doubt, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was fantastic on the game-winning drive. When a fierce 6-yard run by Marshawn Lynch gave sudden death to Denver’s remarkable comeback, Broncos linebacker Nate Irving and his defensive teammates were so emotionally stunned their feet no longer seemed to work. They stood near the goal line, nobody wanting to go home.
Did this qualify as a moral victory after the 43-8 blowout in the Super Bowl? Knighton certainly didn’t want a juice box and a condescending pat on the head. “You either win or you lose ... We’re not saying, ‘At least the score is better than the Super Bowl’ or anything like that,” Knighton insisted.

Manning has become known in Denver, thanks to imaginative T-shirt makers and excitable fans, as PFM. Maybe I’ve finally figured out what those three letters mean: Pray for miracles.
In the hands of Manning, miracles happen.
While the NFL’s most beautiful mind was stumped by the Seahawks for the vast majority of four quarters and Denver’s offensive game plan appeared so simplistic you might have wondered if it had been written in crayon, Manning willed the Broncos 80 yards in the final 59 seconds of the fourth quarter to tie the game, despite the hindrance of no timeouts to stop the clock.

Manning hit a wide-open Jacob Tamme with a 26-yard pass for the touchdown, then found Demaryius Thomas against Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman to convert the essential two points after the TD.
Prayer answered.

“That’s what makes him Peyton Manning,” said Wilson, with obvious respect for one of the NFL’s elder statesmen. “That’s what makes him one of the best quarterbacks ever to play the game.”

Then, however, Manning was forced to sit and watch overtime. Maybe NFL commissioner Roger Goodell should have bought Manning a pretzel and beer. In 2012, the league amended its overtime rules to allow each team to possess the ball at least once in the extra period, unless a touchdown is scored on the opening drive by the lucky bums who win the coin flip.
That’s stupid. Let’s simplify the rules: If the teams have fought into an overtime, haven’t both teams earned the right to touch the football at least once?

Yes, Tim Tebow gave Denver fans one of the biggest playoff thrills in franchise history by beating Pittsburgh in overtime on an 80-yard bolt from the blue.
But has Hollywood ever required Denzel Washington or Harrison Ford to sit out the last reel when things got dicey and the audience prayed for a miracle from the movie’s hero?
“We’re not going to change the rules,” said Broncos cornerback Chris Harris Jr. “But I would’ve liked our chances if we got our ‘O’ back out there.”
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[morphius]

I like the first to 6 approach, no real reason to change it. Wouldn't change my feelings if it were the Chiefs losing. But come on Denver, you spent all that money on D and still couldn't stop them when it counted.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Frosty

So, if Manning had won the coin toss and drove down for a winning TD in the first OT possession, he would be up there in the press conference saying it would have been more fair if Seattle had gotten an extra possession in OT, too?

Riiiiiight.

This. Peyton.

[Marcellus]

no.

[ping2000]

It's so easy to hate the Broncos when there are articles like this. **** you Donks. The rest of the universe is happier today. By the way, they did change some rules for you, to allow the midget cheating drug abuser to play. Again, **** you.

[007]

Ahhhhh, pooor Manning. He didn't get an opportunity to win the game because his defense couldn't get the job done when it mattered most. We need to change another rule to benefit him.

Peyton.

[CaliforniaChief]

Originally Posted by notorious

They are crying a ****ing river at the Mange right now over this.


Nobody was bitching when Tebow bombed Thomas in OT against Pitt a few years ago.

Absolutely correct. The rules are fine. Score more than 5 points in the first 3+ quarters and this isn't an issue. Broncos.

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by Guru

Ahhhhh, pooor Manning. He didn't get an opportunity to win the game because his defense couldn't get the job done when it mattered most. We need to change another rule to benefit him.

Peyton.

Exactly.

If it happened to us, there wouldn't even be a discussion.

[lcarus]

This just reeks of sour grapes...

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ping2000

It's so easy to hate the Broncos when there are articles like this. **** you Donks. The rest of the universe is happier today. By the way, they did change some rules for you, to allow the midget cheating drug abuser to play. Again, **** you.

I didn't watch the game. Was he huffing gasoline from the little cart that carries injured players off the field?

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by Frosty

So, if Manning had won the coin toss and drove down for a winning TD in the first OT possession, he would be up there in the press conference saying it would have been more fair if Seattle had gotten an extra possession in OT, too?

Riiiiiight.

Exactly this.



Sore butthurt loser is sore butthurt loser.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Again, I don't think you're understanding what I'm proposing. It's not clear at all that my plan would extend overtime anymore than the current plan. Under my plan there is no possibility of a field goal, then another field goal, then overtime continuing.

Also again, I didn't say anything about fairness. I said what I would like to see purely from a selfish point of view as a fan. I get that the coin toss punishes teams for letting the game go into overtime. But it also punishes the fans.

Ahh, well in that case, your plan is not acceptable because it gives a tremendous advantage to the winner of the coin flip.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Bambi

Ties are x100 better than that bullshit we saw today.

I normally love it when you piss off people on this forum.

Right now, however, you're being the biggest chode muncher I've ever ****ing seen.

[rabblerouser]

Wait...Didn't Denver's defense take the field with Seattle's offense??

So...Denver HAD a chance. Force a punt, force a Turnover, or hold them to a FG.

Denver had all kinds of chances to win in OT. Whiny pussies.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Wait...Didn't Denver's defense take the field with Seattle's offense??

So...Denver HAD a chance. Force a punt, force a Turnover, or hold them to a FG.

Denver had all kinds of chances to win in OT. Whiny pussies.

Yep. And as visiting team, got to make the coin flip call. Should have called HEADS!

[RealSNR]

“We felt like we were the better team,” Broncos defensive tackle Terrance Knighton said.

Going back to the Super Bowl, there is a four-game difference between the two times these teams have played. Seattle outright dominated all quarters of the Super Bowl. They also shut Manning the **** down for 3 quarters of this game, and if you can do that, you beat the Donks. Every single ****ing time.

Out of 8 quarters of football, the Donks have basically played better than Seattle for... oh, say... 8 minutes of regulation. And this ****tard wants to claim his team is the superior one?

Eat cocks, Terrance Knighton.