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 Why the NFL Overtime rules should be changed sooner rather than later 


By Demetrius Singletary  

  

This past Sunday the Bills lost in overtime to the Chiefs and easily was a top 3 playoff game of all time. Josh Allen was having a perfect playoffs as he threw for 9 touchdowns, zero interceptions, and less than 15 total incompletions which is unreal for a Qb. The game itself was insane and the final score after regulation was 36-36. Both Quarterbacks (Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen) were having amazing games and there was an overtime period! But that’s where things start to get unfortunate for the Bills. To decide who starts with the ball first in overtime you do a coin flip and if you’re correct on your guess between heads or tails you can decide if you want to play offense or defense first (Almost all teams choose offense in this case). So the Chiefs won the coin flip and decided to get the ball first. If you were a bills fan you were probably worried because all the Chiefs needed to do was get a touchdown and they win the game, and that’s exactly what happened. Now people have said for many years to change this rule and just play all of the 15 minutes in that overtime period to decide the winner because it isn’t fair if the other team doesn’t get a chance to win the game as well if a touchdown happens on the first drive. I believe that both teams should play all 15 minutes of that overtime period and whoever wins that period, obviously wins the game. Of course in a regular season game it’s a little different, if after the last 15 minutes the game is still tied, then the result will be a tie unlike a playoff game when you absolutely need a winner to move on to the next round. I just hope that next year the NFL will understand this and change up the Playoff overtime rules. 

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