NFL Overtime Rules Change Sparks Potential Controversy

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00:00First off, I know we had a disagreement yesterday in the regular season overtime format, which

00:05the Eagles put up, and they got the change, but the Eagles also wanted a full 15 minutes

00:10as opposed to 10 minutes now in the current overtime session.

00:13The one change we'll get, we'll have a playoff format.

00:15Each team gets to have the football once regardless of the other team scoring a field goal, touchdown,

00:21turning the football over, whatever it may be.

00:24Regular season overtime has changed, Mark, and do you like it or dislike it?

00:29I hate it.

00:30I despise it.

00:31I think it's the dumbest thing in the world.

00:33Why do both teams, so we went from, hey, flip a coin and play ball, which is the best and

00:39smartest and easiest way to do it, to, okay, well, you can't just kick a field goal.

00:43You have to score a touchdown.

00:45Then we went to, oh, both teams get to touch the ball at least once.

00:49Now we've gone to, oh, it doesn't matter if you score, when you score, the other team

00:53gets to score, and then if they match you, then we go back to the original version of

00:57then you can't kick a field goal, or then you have to score a touchdown, and then we

01:00go back to that version, and before that, we end up in sudden death again.

01:03So stupid.

01:05Stop tinkering with this stuff.

01:07Flip a coin, go play ball.

01:09This is not difficult.

01:11This is so stupid.

01:12The NFL has made overtime a joke.

01:15It's ridiculous.

01:17There's no point to, I would be more in favor of, guess what?

01:22If when you're tied and the clock strikes zero, the team that has the ball still gets

01:26to keep the ball.

01:27Like you may as well just do that.

01:29Like honestly, they've made this such a joke, I can't even fathom the words for it.

01:36Like back in the day, Texas high school football, where state championships were divided by

01:39a tie game, where who had the most first downs in a game won the state championship if it

01:44was a tie.

01:45Now going to extra, look, you have 60 minutes basically to win or lose a football game.

01:49Extra time, you sort of leave that up in the air.

01:51I don't mind the rules per se itself.

01:52I actually wanted a full 15 minutes as opposed to the first team gets it, runs it all the

01:56way down.

01:57Then you have a minute and 30 seconds to do something with the football.

01:59We'll probably also end up with a little bit more ties than not since one team could score

02:03a touchdown, eat up seven minutes.

02:05The other team goes down quickly and leaves the other team after a touchdown with 32 seconds

02:10left on the clock to do nothing with the football.

02:12So watch out for that.

02:13I don't think in the grand scheme of things, it's all that big of a change itself.

02:16I don't mind it.

02:17Mark doesn't like it here.

02:18It's just the way it is here.

02:19How about the adjusted dynamic kickoff, which I like?

02:23The old school kickoff.

02:24We're never going to get that back.

02:25Wedge busters, all that stuff, the stuff we loved, long kick returns because the kickers

02:28didn't have a strong enough leg.

02:29So the other team would automatically return it.

02:31I was watching games.

02:32I said it yesterday on radio.

02:33Mark, go back to the 80s and the early 90s, like just watching old Philadelphia Eagles

02:37highlights like Roger Rudjak, 62 kickoffs, four touchbacks on the season.

02:42We're never going back to that.

02:43So at least this brings the returns back into play because the penalty for kicking the football

02:47in the back of the end zone or into the stands results in a touchback, which brings it to

02:51the 35 yard line.

02:53Now expectations, Mark, 60 to 70% more returns this coming year.

02:58Come on, more action, Mark.

03:00You got to like that.

03:01It's more.

03:02No, I don't care.

03:04I'm not here for kickers.

03:06I don't.

03:07Again, especially from a betting perspective, there is nothing worse in a betting in a football

03:12game, particularly in under and having a kickoff return for a touchdown.

03:17It's just, you know, I mean, again, I get the point.

03:20They don't want to make the play boring, right?

03:23And you don't want to make it transactional where I score a touchdown and then, you know,

03:26we could just eliminate the kickoff altogether, give the ball, give the other team the ball

03:29in the 30 and let's start.

03:31Now you're going to penalize teams for being, for having a kicker who's strong enough to

03:37kick the ball to the back of the end zone.

03:39Again, why are we penalizing teams for having better players who can do things that not

03:46every other player can do?

03:48That's the point of it.

03:50And the idea of the idea that you're taking away a coaching decision of going, I'd rather

03:57just let them have the ball at the 30 and give me a touchback and put my defense on

04:01the field, then bring in some level of variance with a kickoff return team or a kickoff, you

04:07know, a defense team that could totally change the outcome of the game.

04:11I don't, I mean, again, you're, you're, you're punishing teams for having kickers who were

04:16good.

04:17And then you're taking coaching decisions out of coaches hands by forcing them to put

04:22together a return play.

04:24And I, I, that's not, I don't advocate for that.

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