Polian So You Want Overtime Rule Changed

(EDITORS NOTE: To listen to the Bill Polian interview, click on the following link: )It wouldnt be the NFL playoffs if we didnt have something to complain about, and the NFLs current overtime rule is that something.Like it. Loathe it. It doesn't matter. Everyone Theo Riddick Jersey wants to talk about it after the Kansas City-Buffalo divisional round playoff game last week. The reason: Easy. The Chiefs won because they scored a touchdown on their opening po se sion of overtime, and Buffalo had no chance to reply.Unfair? Critics think so. But thats the way it goes under the current league rules for overtime. If the team with the opening po se sion scores a TD on that series, the game is over. If it doesnt, its opponent has a chance to respond with whatever score (a field goal, touchdown) ties or wins the game.Of course, Buffalo never had that chance, and that has Bills Mafia and plenty of others clamoring for something different.Like what? Well, Hall-of Richie Incognito Jersey -Fame GM and former Buffalo GM Bill Polian has an idea, and it might fly with people on both sides of the fence: Simply allow both teams to have at least one po se sion, no matter what happens on the opening series. Then, if the game remains tied, the team that scores first wins.Scroll to ContinueWith the explosion of offenses, he said on the latest Eye Test for Two podcast ( ), and with the use of 53-and-a-third yards of width of the field, along with the length that weve always had I think the advantage the offense has today with these running quarterbacks and their ability to throw the football 50 yards on a dime and make it where the defender cant get near it ... is just too overwhelming.So I would be in favor of two po se sions in the overtime and you could probably take the coin to s out. Id want to discu s that and Charles Woodson Jersey hear other peoples point of view on that. Tradition means nothing to me. The idea that whoever lost the opening coin to s would automatically go first in the overtime ... that sounds suitable to me. If I was a member of the (competition) committee, thats what Id now be for.Polian was a member of the competition committee, which recommends rules changes, for 19 years and a supporter Kolton Miller Jersey of the overtime rule in its present form which is why his comments are especially noteworthy. Granted, he has ties to the Buffalo Bills, too, serving as their GM from 1986-92, but that has little to do with his stance on the rule. He believes a change is warranted because the rule, in its present form, is unfair.But according to , it really isnt. Under the current rules, it said, teams that win overtime coin to ses have a record of 86-67-10, a 52.8 winning percentage. However, when you look at the numbers for overtime playoff games, the results are more skewed: Teams that win overtime coin to ses are 10-1, with seven of those clubs scoring on their Willie Brown Jersey opening drives.Its those figures that have Polian pushing for a change.He conceded that he hasnt had time to plot out all the unintended consequences of his proposal, but he also said Ive been through the discu sion long enough to understand the unintended consequences -- one of which is the prolongation of games to extreme lengths.You could put it in for one year only to see how it works, he said of his idea. Certainly, you can talk it through at the committee level. Im certain that they will. Because some team (or) franchise is going to put in an overtime proposal. So the committee is going to have to deal with it.