Twitter & Some Players Want The NFL’s Overtime Rules Gone Following Superb Playoff Weekend

The NFL had itself a near-perfect weekend, however one obtrusive situation followers and a number of the league’s gamers are complaining about, and it’s the dreaded additional time rule. 

Following the very good AFC Divisional Playoff matchup between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Buffalo Payments, which noticed the Payments lose to the Chiefs in additional time, there have been requires the foundations to be modified. Proper now, guidelines state that additional time is handled as a model new sport. The primary group to attain a landing wins the sport. A discipline objective doesn’t finish the sport.

The complaints concerning the rule rapidly got here after the Chiefs rapidly went down the sphere and scored a landing after successful possession following the coin toss. Buffalo Payments quarterback Josh Allen, who was having himself a sport, didn’t even get to the touch the sphere in additional time, and it left a bitter style in not solely Payments followers’ mouths but additionally different NFL followers. Followers and gamers like Giants working again Saquon Barkley rapidly identified {that a} coin toss is principally figuring out who’s the winner of the sport and never the precise gamers on the sphere.

After all, there are all the time purists who refuse to let change occur. ESPN Monday Evening Soccer’s Louis Riddick argued that the Payments ought to have simply performed protection and never “cry” concerning the guidelines.

Riddick went even additional, arguing that “Of the 163 OT video games (common season + playoffs) beneath the present OT guidelines, ONLY 35 of the 163 have been determined by TDs on the primary possession of additional time. 21.5% !!!!”

Legitimate factors, however each arguments could be true in the identical sense. Ought to a coin toss be the figuring out issue of giant playoff video games with critical implications? Truthfully, no. Each groups should have their offenses contact the sphere in additional time. The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, who have been celebrating this previous Sunday, we’re additionally on the receiving finish of a trash additional time end result and took their grievances concerning the OT rule final yr.

We expect it’s time the NFL took a tough have a look at the additional time guidelines. You’ll be able to peep extra reactions within the gallery under.

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