Posted on 05/23/2017 11:34:41 AM PDT by Phlap
CHICAGO — Beware standings tiebreaker person … an 8-5-3 division champion could be coming to the NFL soon.
The league reportedly has passed a rule at the owners meeting on Tuesday that will shorten the length of regular-season overtime games from 15 minutes to 10. There were two ties in the NFL last season, as many as there had been in the prior three seasons combined.
But this feels like a solution looking for a problem to us. How is this going to help … with anything? The NFL is expected to officially announce the changes later on Tuesday.
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Part of the reason for the decline in O-line play is that there are fewer practices in full pads than there were 10 years ago, and you just can't improve technique without contact. And this extends down to the college and high school levels as well.
Exactly.
There is too much physical bodily sacrifice for any team to have to settle for a tie.
I think this move is just brought on by after game highlight show motives. $$$
Do you think that NCAA football should have overtime rules that are the same as the NFL OT rules? I think that the NCAA changed their OT rule in 1997, and I think that they should have continued allowing tie games.
When were the hollowed dynasty days? I was born in 1967, and I started paying attention to the NFL during the 1978 super bowl.
Late 80s, early 90s. roughly that zone where the NFC won 12 or 13 in a row, and most of those were Dallas, The Giants or the Niners. It was a boring era to be an AFC fan. Not a terribly exciting era to be a fan of an NFC Central team either, until Greenbay got the last win of that run.
Why? Because the Players are pissed that it will drop their avg. salaries from 200k an hour to 190k.
Institute Roller Ball rules.
Television advertisements and scheduling (of the next program, that also has advertisements lined up, ready to go and earn revenue).
Sing it, Meghan
What’s worse than ties are those tiebreakers.
Now if the Chargers beat the Seahawks by 14 points or more, they’re in, unless the Steelers beat the Bengals next week.
If more games ended in ties, you’d have less need for tiebreakers.
LOL. That was great. Hits the nail on the head.
That’s a great strategy. The Dallas Cowboys have long had a reputation for finding offensive linemen from some of the most obscure places that most teams never used to even scout.
I think you’ve summed it up perfectly!
It seems that all of those great NFL teams had one thing in common: they all grew from a winning combination of a great GM and/or player personnel director and a great head coach. Bobby Beathard and Joe Gibbs in Washington, Tex Schramm and Tom Landry in Dallas, George Young and Bill Parcells with the Giants, John McVay and Bill Walsh in San Francisco, Dick Haley and Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh, etc. That's because the key to success in the NFL back then was building a roster over time and then riding it for as long as possible.
Teams build defensive game plans around pressuring the quarterback these days. It helps them hide deficiencies everywhere else on the field. Run-blocking is not as important as it used to be, but an offensive line that can give a QB time to throw is essential in the NFL today.
This wasn't really a function of NFC dominance, in my mind. The real issue was two-fold:
1. In the 1980s, the AFC went through several years where the AFC team that would match up best against the dominant NFC teams would lose in the playoffs. The Broncos of Super Bowls 21 and 22, for example, were not great teams from top to bottom but had some solid players who came up big in the playoffs. I still say to this day that we may have seen two of the best Super Bowls of all time if the Cleveland Browns had won those two AFC championship games. Those Browns were built like some of the best NFC teams of that era.
2. In the 1990s, the "run and shoot" took hold in the AFC -- with disastrous results outside the conference. Maybe they were just 10-15 years ahead of their time, but that type of offensive game plan didn't work well in a tough game against an opponent with a great ground game. The Bills demonstrated that in spades, in both victory and defeat. The AFC wild card game against the Oilers in 1993 exposed all of the flaws of this offense; Warren Moon threw for over 200 yards and 4 TDs in the first half alone, but Houston blew a 32-point lead in the second half even while playing against an injury-depleted Buffalo team. The "run & shoot" offense of Houston was exposed badly, as it was completely ill-suited to mount time-consuming drives with a running game. That may have been the first NFL team in my lifetime to go through a season without a tight end on the roster. They just lined up with four wide receivers and threw the ball downfield all day long.
The NFC won every super bowl between 1985 & ‘97. I liked some later super bowls more. When I was a kid, I lived near Las Angeles and Denver, so my two favorite teams are the Rams and Broncos. The Broncos won super bowls in 1998 and ‘99. The Rams won the super bowl in 2000, and they lost the super bowl in 2002.
Speak for yourself Yank. We Canadians never had a problem with regular season ties because there were none in the playoffs. Forcing a winner in regular season games achieves little.
A tie is like kissing your sister.
Don’t want to kiss your sister? Play better.
As I get older (43), I’ve become oddly nostalgic for the wild wild west of college football where games and seasons could end without a definitive winner. I’m not entirely sure that overtimes and playoffs are any better at picking “the best team” than the old system.
But American sports fans hate ties and love playoffs.
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