Tremendous Bowl LVIII between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs went into time beyond regulation, testing the brand new rule accepted by the league two years in the past.
Underneath the outdated guidelines adopted in 2010, if the crew that possessed the ball first in time beyond regulation scored a landing on that drive, it received the sport. The opposite offense by no means obtained an opportunity to even take the sphere.
Then again, if the crew possessing the ball first kicked a subject objective, the opposite crew obtained an opportunity to win the sport with a landing or tie it with a subject objective. At that time, the sport turns into a sudden-death state of affairs.
The playoff time beyond regulation guidelines accepted in 2022 assured every crew a possession. If the crew that possesses the ball first doesn’t rating a landing, or if the rating is tied after every crew has had a possession, then sudden dying units in, and the following rating wins the sport.
Former New York Giants nice Tiki Barber believes the time beyond regulation guidelines within the postseason are nonsense, claiming they make the clock irrelevant.
Tiki goes off on the “absolute nonsense” of the NFL’s new playoff time beyond regulation guidelines: pic.twitter.com/BtH8tL4brm
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“The brand new NFL time beyond regulation rule within the playoffs is nonsense. It’s absolute nonsense. To make a clock imply nothing is nonsense,” Barber mentioned Monday on WFAN. “The clock has to finish the sport. I perceive why they do it this manner since you wish to be truthful. Nevertheless it takes all urgency out of soccer.
“I hate that. Soccer, in my thoughts, is competing in opposition to an opponent. Nevertheless it’s additionally competing in opposition to these forces that constrain you. It’s the sphere, it’s the officers, and it’s the clock. And time beyond regulation within the NFL playoffs, they’ve neutered the clock, and it is mindless to me.”
I perceive his level, however consider, it’s the postseason. The sport wants to provide a winner. Within the outdated days (assume the 1958 NFL Championship between the Giants and Baltimore Colts) it was a real sudden-death affair — first crew to attain wins.
The clock ticked, however it clearly was irrelevant when it got here to urgency as Tiki was intimating. Isn’t that principally nonetheless the case? The one distinction between 1958 and in the present day is that each groups get a shot because the clock ticks within the background, albeit pointlessly.