I always thought the overtime rule as is, is ok.
Because assuming the first team that gets the ball deep in their territory, if they fail to get a first down then has to kick the ball away, most likely the other team only has to be maybe 20-30 yards to kick the winning FG, whereas the team that got the ball first has to score a touchdown to win. So it seems like a fair tradeoff.
“I always thought the overtime rule as is, is ok.”
Statistics showed that it was not ok.
If you’re gonna have ‘OT’ at all, then why not go the full 15 minutes, regardless of who scores what or when.
I never liked the Sudden Death OT rules..................
Yes. Defenses need to play better. But a lot of that is because today’s game is wiffleball compared to the pre-2000 game. It’s another subject, but the current OT rule would be just fine I suspect if the League would just stop with all these illegal contact rules.