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<blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 954835" data-attributes="member: 10247"><p>You are right that a game is 3 parts, offense, defense and special teams and by doing it this way it gives all 6 units (3 per team) a chance to contribute. Team A wins the toss and scores now their defense has to be up to the task to stop the other team from scoring. Team B's defense messes up their first chance their offense has a chance to bail them out. If you have two teams with strong offenses and no defense the team that wins the toss has a strong advantage the current way. You want strategy? No team is going to choose to kick off under the current rules but with each team getting a chance a team with a great defense might just choose to kick if they think they can pin the other team deep and take advantage. </p><p></p><p>I get your point about giving each team one more try then going back to the old way. The fact is I never really had a problem with the old way. I was fine with simple sudden death. The difference is that during the first 60 minutes there is time for teams to answer an opponents score with a score of their own unless you are talking a last second score before halftime or the end of the game but that's what you get when you set fixed time limits. Time runs out. If they don't answer the score the game continues. That's why I wouldn't do OT in the regular season. You set a time of 60 minutes if no one is ahead after that it makes no sense to me to just give them more time. No one has to win a regular season game. I get why they do OT but I don't think it is needed. </p><p></p><p>When you come to a game that has to have a winner though things change. Giving 1 team an extra chance to score is not fair and despite your assertions that things don't have to be fair I think they should be. At least as fair as they can be. So now both teams score a FG and the next score wins. Where is the fairness in that? Well, both sides had a chance to let their offense and defense and ST s win the game. Most scores in OT come with time left on the clock so like in regulation the other team should get a chance to match if there is time left. Maybe the best option would be to simply keep playing 10 minute OT periods until the time runs out in one and one team is ahead but that could lead to some really long games and since that may not be desirable sudden death is the only really practical way to end it at that point.</p><p></p><p>You are right though. If both teams score the same points on their "extra' possession it does go back to the way it was and like I said I never had a problem with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sschind, post: 954835, member: 10247"] You are right that a game is 3 parts, offense, defense and special teams and by doing it this way it gives all 6 units (3 per team) a chance to contribute. Team A wins the toss and scores now their defense has to be up to the task to stop the other team from scoring. Team B's defense messes up their first chance their offense has a chance to bail them out. If you have two teams with strong offenses and no defense the team that wins the toss has a strong advantage the current way. You want strategy? No team is going to choose to kick off under the current rules but with each team getting a chance a team with a great defense might just choose to kick if they think they can pin the other team deep and take advantage. I get your point about giving each team one more try then going back to the old way. The fact is I never really had a problem with the old way. I was fine with simple sudden death. The difference is that during the first 60 minutes there is time for teams to answer an opponents score with a score of their own unless you are talking a last second score before halftime or the end of the game but that's what you get when you set fixed time limits. Time runs out. If they don't answer the score the game continues. That's why I wouldn't do OT in the regular season. You set a time of 60 minutes if no one is ahead after that it makes no sense to me to just give them more time. No one has to win a regular season game. I get why they do OT but I don't think it is needed. When you come to a game that has to have a winner though things change. Giving 1 team an extra chance to score is not fair and despite your assertions that things don't have to be fair I think they should be. At least as fair as they can be. So now both teams score a FG and the next score wins. Where is the fairness in that? Well, both sides had a chance to let their offense and defense and ST s win the game. Most scores in OT come with time left on the clock so like in regulation the other team should get a chance to match if there is time left. Maybe the best option would be to simply keep playing 10 minute OT periods until the time runs out in one and one team is ahead but that could lead to some really long games and since that may not be desirable sudden death is the only really practical way to end it at that point. You are right though. If both teams score the same points on their "extra' possession it does go back to the way it was and like I said I never had a problem with that. [/QUOTE]
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