(01-24-2022, 02:00 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(01-24-2022, 01:46 PM)Mikey Wrote: baloney.

Buffalo gave that game away by playing prevent, spongy defence. I'd much rather they played more tightly on guys and risk the breakaway TD/big gain at the end of regulation than allowing KC to simply march against air.

They had their chance to seal the deal, and didn't. And no, in the playoffs you never had to play the entire OT. The only way you play the entire OT is if the teams only match field goals on the opening drive or fail to score for the entire period.

OT should be sudden death, full stop.

Gee, pro and college basketball and hockey seem to do just fine playing a full OT period.  Maybe we need to change it so the NBA OT games are decided with the 1st 3 pointer.  Dont want them to get too tired. I guess those big NFL guys cant occasionally play a full extra 10 min.

Your argument of the 'defense just having to get a stop' would hold water in another era, but not in this era where the defense has virtually every rule stacked against them in pursuit of more scoring.

And per the history of the NFL, sudden death OT was not implemented till 1974.