Banedon

The current OT rules are a hell of a lot better than that suggestion, and I kinda hate the current OT rules. Do you hate it because it takes away a team trying to rush down the field at the end? I can see that. I guess it is just whether you want the excitement of someone trying rush to score at the end or being more fair. I didn't mind the old OT rules, but just thought this would be more fair. A tie game in sudden death is already exciting. I wouldn't really care either way--and honestly wouldn't totally mind ending the games in a tie. I hate it because football doesn't work as a "short game". Yes, occasionally there's a quick drive, big pass, etc. But generally it's a grind it out, get 3-4 yards, try to sprinkle in the occasional big play game, and I dont' think that fits well into a confined space. I think OT ends up giving a win to one team and a loss to another, for a game in which both proved equal over the course of 60 minutes of play. I'd rather give them a tie and move along. Obviously that's not an option in the playoffs, and something has to be done there. I wonder how ties instead of OT would have affected this past season? If I get some time later in my Friday, I'll see if I can figure that out. I could definitely go along with giving the teams a tie, but the comment about football not really working as a short game is why I always thought it would be better to just continue on from where they left off. It seemed strange to need to start the game over from scratch with another coin toss and play a mini game to see who wins, rather than just continuing on with a slightly longer game to see who is the leader. Again, it is already arbitrary that we consider the winner the team with the lead after 60 minutes. Why not just continue on until someone has the lead again and stop the game at that point? Because that point the clock is irrelevant. Why have it? You also lose the urgency of the 2 minute drill.

Denver would have finished last in their division instead of first (with San Diego going to the playoffs). Arizona would have had a much better draft pick since they were 4-0 in OT games. Dallas would have had a worse record. Hard to know how that would have affected the NFC East because the tiebreakers already caused some strategy changes at the end of the last year. No Tebow in the playoffs? I call that a win.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/andre-parker-punt-return-kent-state-wrong-way_n_1845199.html

The current OT rules are a hell of a lot better than that suggestion, and I kinda hate the current OT rules. Do you hate it because it takes away a team trying to rush down the field at the end? I can see that. I guess it is just whether you want the excitement of someone trying rush to score at the end or being more fair. I didn't mind the old OT rules, but just thought this would be more fair. A tie game in sudden death is already exciting. I wouldn't really care either way--and honestly wouldn't totally mind ending the games in a tie. I hate it because football doesn't work as a "short game". Yes, occasionally there's a quick drive, big pass, etc. But generally it's a grind it out, get 3-4 yards, try to sprinkle in the occasional big play game, and I dont' think that fits well into a confined space. I think OT ends up giving a win to one team and a loss to another, for a game in which both proved equal over the course of 60 minutes of play. I'd rather give them a tie and move along. Obviously that's not an option in the playoffs, and something has to be done there. I wonder how ties instead of OT would have affected this past season? If I get some time later in my Friday, I'll see if I can figure that out.

I watched way too much of that game last night. The only real position battle is for the 3rd RB, and personally, I like Booker more than Allen in that regard. Booker looked a lot faster than Allen, and had better moves and vision.

The current OT rules are a hell of a lot better than that suggestion, and I kinda hate the current OT rules.

It's not at minimum 85%. My wife drafted a pretty sketchy team. They told her that her team was brutal and I think gave her a 45% chance at the playoffs with great in season management.

@_B_Hard_ Brandon Hardin I need to find out more about this "new IR rule" ... cuase eventually I will be healthy to play.

Two 7:30 overtimes and then a "kick-off" from the 50 yard line, most FG's made wins, a la soccer and hockey. :stickman:

How do you determine who gets the ball first in this 8 min overtime? Coin flip? I really don't see how that fundamentally solves one of the main issues that NFL overtime presents.

jersey and I definitely disagree on the sudden death idea. (which is nothing new, it's been a long running debate) I hate it. It's a main reason why I am behind the OT elimination idea.

Not to mention injury concerns.

Which is nuts when you consider 25% of our schedule is against Green Bay and Detroit. Yeah, but we get to play some soft divisions. Also, looking at our schedule, 5 of our last 7 games are divisional games....that's really odd scheduling. Is the NFL purposely trying to put more divisional games later?

The Football Outsiders Almanac has the Bears opponents this season at -5.7% DVOA, the easiest schedule in football by the measure.

I open to overtime if there's a good way to do it. I'm just not super convinced there is a good way.

Don't overthink it. Bane is strong...we want our sports teams to be strong....*shrug* Like Sulley, I liked it more when I thought it was just the Bears....didn't see the other ones till a few min later.

So apparently I didn't correct my post fast enough.

Chuck Klosterman on Grantland proposes 3 NFL rule changes. Interesting to think about anyway... http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8314725/chuck-klosterman-proposes-three-rule-changes-nfl I love the idea to kill regular season OT.

Cubs Version: Bulls Version:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-43933739663288_2222_1048486

He's notoriously bad at picking, so I'm not putting a ton of stock in it.

I think there's a chance they go with a 4th RB because of special teams rather than a 6th WR.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/8310739/jay-cutler-offense-redefining-chicago-bears-image