Kansas City Chiefs football group head coach Andy Reid talks to reporters at a coaches press accessibility throughout the NFL owner’s conference, Monday, March 28, 2022, at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
Rebecca Blackwell|AP
PALM BEACH, Fla.– Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh desires no part of a brand-new overtime guideline. Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid is uncertain. And Buffalo Bills Sean McDermott made it clear where he stands.
“I’d like to see a change,” McDermott stated Monday at the NFL’s yearly conferences.
NFL owners are set to evaluate propositions that ask for both groups to have the ball throughout the additional duration. The dispute follows a timeless championship game in between the Chiefs and the Bills that ended in overtime after Kansas City scored on the very first ownership.
The present guideline, which is referred to as Rule 16, permits each group to have the ball in additional play unless the club that gets the opening kickoff ratings a goal. If the opening drive leads to a basket, the opposing group gets the chance to match ball game or win with a goal. If there’s a turnover, the first string to score wins.
Proposals from the Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles recommend that both groups ought to have the ball in overtime, despite whether a goal is scored on the very first ownership. Meanwhile, the Tennessee Titans proposed the group that ratings a goal on the opening drive would likewise require a two-point conversion to win.
The guideline has actually remained in location for the playoffs for 12 years. In 2012, the league broadened the format to the routine season. To alter the guideline once again, 24 of 32 NFL owners require to authorize modifying Rule16
“I like to stay out of overtime as much as possible,” joked Harbaugh, the Ravens coach.
But then he buckled down.
“I’m not for them,” Harbaugh included. “I don’t think adding plays at the end of the game is the answer. I don’t think extending games is the answer.”
Reid, Kansas City’s coach, smiled when he was inquired about the guideline. He remembered the Chiefs’ 2019 overtime loss to the Tom Brady- led New England Patriots in the playoffs. The Patriots won the coin-toss and got rid of the Chiefs after an opening drive goal. But he likewise remembered remembered his group’s January win over the Bills, when the Chiefs were the recipient of Rule 16.
“I’m not exactly sure where I sit,” stated Reid, the chairman of the coaches sub-committee that has input on NFL guideline modifications. “I’ve seen it work both ways. It’s worked the way we’ve got it.”
Last week, Atlanta Falcons CEO Rich McKay– the chairman of the NFL’s Competition Committee– stated “data and analytics” support a modification to Rule16 He kept in mind how there have actually been 12 postseason overtimes given that the present guideline was carried out, including that the coin-toss winning group has actually won 10 times. Seven of those success began the very first drive, consisting of the Chiefs’ win over the Bills in January.
Securing 24 votes on Tuesday will be challenging and a “pretty big hill to climb the first time,” McKay stated.
Also, do not ignore defense.
“There is a defense on the other side of the ball,” Houston Texans head coach Lovie Smith informed CNBC. “When you kick the ball off … you can take it away, score right there, and you win. There’s a reason why we had these rules in place for this long period of time.”
He included, nevertheless: “But I think change is always good, too.”
