And we did twice. But I do realize the extreme advantage of the people winning the toss and the fact that they had Sproles as a returner.

Whatever though, at least going into the offseason we hav narrowed where we need to upgrade or focus on to become as dominant as any team could hope to be. We’re on the cusp of turning a great team into one that’ll be remembered for years. At least I hope so. This loss should serve to light a fire going into next year.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the OT rules. I don’t agree with the college rule being adapted to the NFL. The only thing I might think would be better is that you let the team play the entire quarter. They use the excuse for the Fairness comitte or whatever jargon they want to throw at you saying there’s a competitive disadvantage to playing more than 1 OT. But since they let the teams play the entire 15 minutes in regular season if nobody scores than what’s the difference of letting them continue to play if they do score? I honestly think OT is anticlimatic because of the above mentioned statement “The second I heard "heads" I knew it was over.” That’s not a minority consensus. Besides, the team that wins the toss still has a significant advantage, but not an overwhelming advantage like everyone complains about. If playing out the entire quarter was the norm, most of us would be saying the penalties were iffy but weren’t the reason we lost. And that’s what happens in the NFL on the regular; weird plays, weird bounces, bad calls, there’s a number of ways scores could happen. Could you imagine the Chargers fans if the Colts won the toss and Manning did what he did on the 70+ yard TD to Wayne? And the fact that you can win on a FG is just silly. Maybe if they made it that you had to win by 4 or more points instead of 3. I know it’s all hopes and dreams, but there are definitely ways to improve the OT system that wouldn’t adversely effect the experience. As it stands, the playing field is definitely skewed. For a league that prides itself on a level playing field it just seems out of sync.

LovinBlue’s exactly right. When you see a team react the way people do in OT when they win a coin toss, you know there’s a competitive advantage. And not even discussing eliminating it is a problem. Sometimes abandoning tradition is a step forward, call me crazy. Besides, they pretty much made up that rule at the end of the game anyway. To say it was well thought out and the pros and cons weighed is laughable.

A matter of superstition.

Also, the D had been on the field for most of the game…I figured they were tired.

Thanks for judgin’ tho.

Like I said, they completely made it up in the Giants/Colts championship. They basically went up to each other after thinking the game was over and were like “Uh, we can’t have 2 champions Bob.” And Bob turned to him and said “You’re right Sam, but we already packed up the ball because this has never happened before. Do you even remember where the ball was?” “I sure don’t Bob, I guess we could flip a coin and start over? And man, it’s pretty cold out here so you want to just say whoever scores first wins? I don’t want to be out here all night, they’re only paying me 2 bucks.” “Sure Sam, that sounds good, let’s do that.”

And that is the untold story behind overtime. But now for some reason, I guess the league feels that guys sat around in the dead of summer thinking up every sort of possible OT suggestion and brilliant minds spent restless nights coming up with the ultimate solution.