Tremendous Bowl LVIII between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs went into time beyond regulation, testing the brand new rule accredited by the league two years in the past.
Underneath the previous guidelines adopted in 2010, if the group 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.
However, if the group possessing the ball first kicked a discipline objective, the opposite group obtained an opportunity to win the sport with a landing or tie it with a discipline objective. At that time, the sport turns into a sudden-death situation.
The playoff time beyond regulation guidelines accredited in 2022 assured every group a possession. If the group that possesses the ball first doesn’t rating a landing, or if the rating is tied after every group has had a possession, then sudden loss of life units in, and the subsequent 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 fashion 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 not sensible to me.”
I perceive his level, however take note, it’s the postseason. The sport wants to provide a winner. Within the previous days (suppose the 1958 NFL Championship between the Giants and Baltimore Colts) it was a real sudden-death affair — first group to attain wins.
The clock ticked, but it surely 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 present is that each groups get a shot because the clock ticks within the background, albeit pointlessly.
