(01-26-2022, 10:42 AM)p_rushing Wrote: The rule should be that each team gets the ball and has to match the other teams score to win. So if they keep scoring, the other team gets to try also. The focus is too much on the offense now, so the team winning the coin toss is at a big advantage. That gives the defense a chance to play aggressive and try to win the game as opposed to sitting back and trying to stop a TD. Then if your defense is good and stops them, you are rewarded with a short field for a FG win.

Presently a defensive score on the first possession ends the game, thus rewarding a good defense. Your matching plan would only apply if a FG or TD were scored.

If they do this, then I want it to be one-to-one match. You start on the same yard line as the scoring team started their drive, and your clock is now the total time elapsed on the scoring drive.

If you want to mix it up, allow for the scoring team to kickoff, but the rule is that the drive starts from either the spot the return is downed or the other team's drive starting line, whichever is closer to the end zone. This would allow a team with a great returner not to have an advantage neutralized.

From then on, you continue aiming to match scores while trying to beat the clock established by the opposing team. Eventually a defense will get a stop, a penalty will kill a drive, a FG will be missed at the buzzer, or a team makes a jaw-dropping play to secure the victory.

It would still reward a potent offense, but it would also encourage them to have a sense of urgency about the time they are on the field and between plays. Could you imagine an entire OT played like a two-minute drill?

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(01-26-2022, 12:19 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(01-25-2022, 01:31 PM)mikesez Wrote: I'm just saying, it's pretty poopy when a coin flip influences the outcome of an athletic contest!

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I agree, I would be fine with no overtime in the regular season.

Same here.  Ties make positioning for the playoffs more interesting.  And the Players Association would love it from the perspective of shortning the game.  Vegas oddsmakers would probably hate it tho.

You misspelled fantasy football fans and agents representing players with stats-based incentives in their contracts

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