Tremendous Bowl LVIII between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs went into additional time, testing the brand new rule authorised by the league two years in the past.
Underneath the previous guidelines adopted in 2010, if the workforce that possessed the ball first in additional time scored a landing on that drive, it gained the sport. The opposite offense by no means received an opportunity to even take the sector.
Alternatively, if the workforce possessing the ball first kicked a discipline aim, the opposite workforce received an opportunity to win the sport with a landing or tie it with a discipline aim. At that time, the sport turns into a sudden-death situation.
The playoff additional time guidelines authorised in 2022 assured every workforce a possession. If the workforce that possesses the ball first doesn’t rating a landing, or if the rating is tied after every workforce has had a possession, then sudden loss of life units in, and the following rating wins the sport.
Former New York Giants nice Tiki Barber believes the additional time 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 additional time guidelines: pic.twitter.com/BtH8tL4brm
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“The brand new NFL additional time 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 fashion since you wish to be honest. However it takes all urgency out of soccer.
“I hate that. Soccer, in my thoughts, is competing towards an opponent. However it’s additionally competing towards these forces that constrain you. It’s the sector, it’s the officers, and it’s the clock. And additional time within the NFL playoffs, they’ve neutered the clock, and it is not sensible to me.”
I perceive his level, however take into account, it’s the postseason. The sport wants to provide a winner. Within the previous days (assume the 1958 NFL Championship between the Giants and Baltimore Colts) it was a real sudden-death affair — first workforce 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 at the moment is that each groups get a shot because the clock ticks within the background, albeit pointlessly.
