Fact: I don’t think anyone cares. NFLThe overtime rules, whether during the regular season or the postseason. Until college football He decided to mess it up, he actually had the best version of overtime. Each team must be allowed to possess the ball. If you tie your opponent’s score on the first two possessions, you’ll have to bet on two. Unfortunately, the NFLPA would never allow this…

However, with the way the regular season overtime rules are set up, if you can win the game in regulation as the away team, you should. During the final minutes Monday night footballTodd Bowles Tampa Bay Buccaneers had the opportunity to do just that against the undefeated and two-time defending champion Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs instead. They should have gone for two.

You had the opportunity to finish the Chiefs’ perfect season at home. Tampa Bay was 4-4 and 1.5 games behind the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South race, a team that already completed the season sweep. Even if Tampa Bay had come up short, no one would have batted an eyelid at the attempt. It was the right situation to seek victory, instead of leaving it to chance in overtime.

Kansas City won it in overtime. Bowles cited “wet field conditions” as the reason Tampa Bay punted him.

This was another game Tampa Bay could have won, but it cost them dearly in the fourth quarter.

I remember hearing The Pack with Colin Cowherd in the past. Between his unabashed pandering to all things Lincoln Riley football and the USC Trojans, he had a great point about NFL overtime. He thinks the visiting team should have the ball first. After all, they had to overcome a lot to even force overtime with travel, and they’re probably the underdogs in most cases anyway.

I can back that up, even though college football’s old overtime is still by far better than anything the NFL tweaked this week. That being said, the first possession of NFL overtime is determined by a coin toss. After all, this is football. While I have learned to accept that if you score a touchdown on the first possession that counts as a win, you can’t leave it to chance.

In my opinion, you only play in overtime as a visiting opponent if you have to kick a field goal to get there. If you score one touchdown like the Buccaneers did, you might as well try for two. What do you have to lose besides the game itself? Unless it’s Week 17 or 18 or something, you have time to make up for a heartbreaking loss with a win later in the season. Tampa Bay lost anyway.

Citing wet pitch conditions as a reason not to play is the most cowardly football thing I have ever heard.