The New Rules: Right Direction Or Mistakes Already?

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00:00And my chump is the NFL. As much as I love the Lions winning the game, had they lost

00:06a coin flip and LA scored, I would have been one pissed off guy that we didn't get a chance

00:11to tie it.

00:12You don't like the overtime system, huh?

00:14No, I don't.

00:16Yeah, I mean, look, they're trying to, this is the one area that interestingly, they seem

00:21to be concerned about the health of the players and don't want overtimes to go on and on and

00:26on.

00:27I've always kind of in the back of my mind thought that there should be an equal number

00:31of possessions in overtime, like innings in baseball, each team should get the ball the

00:35same number of times.

00:37They've implemented this rule to try and get away with the kickoff three first downs field

00:42goal you win.

00:43And so that felt extra punitive, the coin flip.

00:47And I wondered, I was sitting there and I'm going, is this going to be a topic?

00:50When they were walking out for the coin flip, I'm like, okay, I still expect the Lions to

00:55win this game.

00:56But if they lose this coin flip and never get the ball, is that all we're going to talk

00:59about on Monday?

01:00Yep.

01:01But we're not, that works the other way.

01:04I mean, this is a case where maybe the, maybe the NFL needs to learn from college football

01:09a little bit about how you do an overtime.

01:11I'm not saying the college football overtime is great, but to put a team automatically

01:17in the red zone to shorten things up, maybe it makes more sense.

01:22In the NFL, the teams are a lot better and they're more evenly matched.

01:26So it's not automatic.

01:27You're going to score.

01:28I don't know if they have to tweak or not, but it's not going to surprise me when they

01:32do because this, this kickoff rule, I think it's pretty apparent what teams are going

01:36to do.

01:37They're going to kick it out again.

01:38So yeah, we'll take it from the 30.

01:39Go ahead.

01:40You get an extra five yards and they don't seem to care about being marked at the 30.

01:44I don't mind the overtime rules, but I mean, they make decisions based on entertainment

01:47because this is the entertainment business and what's going to get, you know, better

01:51viewing, better audience, better numbers.

01:53So they might change it because of that.

01:56But honestly, if you get dog walked in overtime, seven play running plays out of eight plays,

02:00you deserve to lose.

02:01Now, if the Lions had lost the coin toss, they showed right before that they could stop

02:06the Rams.

02:07The Rams needed a first down to ice that game and they couldn't do it.

02:09And the Lions stopped them, got the ball back.

02:11So I mean, you got to play defense too.

02:13And the thing is, for everything that happened last night, they have this new and improved

02:18defense that they're hoping is going to help them win games.

02:21The defense had a must stop series.

02:24They had to get off the field.

02:26Rams had the ball with a chance to run out the clock.

02:28And I think they got one first down and then the Lions forced the punt.

02:33And I, you know, I mean, I'm, it's not, it's, it's too early to do victory laps about the

02:38defense getting that stop, but they got that stop that necessary stop to get the offense,

02:44the football back.

02:45Yeah, they did.

02:47And I thought it was, it was just a cool scene.

02:49You know, you get to overtime and then the coin toss, you got both quarterbacks come

02:54to midfield.

02:55That was actually pretty cool to see Stafford and golf right there at midfield, whatever.

02:59It's even remotely uncomfortable.

03:01I think it has to be a little bit, I mean, or at that point at the game, Hey man, we're,

03:06we're just playing the game.

03:07We're in overtime.

03:08That's all that matters.

03:09I'm not thinking about, Oh, we were traded for each other and we'll get a positions.

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