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00:00First off, I know we had a disagreement yesterday in the regular season overtime format, which
00:05the Eagles put up, and they got the change, but the Eagles also wanted a full 15 minutes
00:10as opposed to 10 minutes now in the current overtime session.
00:13The one change we'll get, we'll have a playoff format.
00:15Each team gets to have the football once regardless of the other team scoring a field goal, touchdown,
00:21turning the football over, whatever it may be.
00:24Regular season overtime has changed, Mark, and do you like it or dislike it?
00:29I hate it.
00:30I despise it.
00:31I think it's the dumbest thing in the world.
00:33Why do both teams, so we went from, hey, flip a coin and play ball, which is the best and
00:39smartest and easiest way to do it, to, okay, well, you can't just kick a field goal.
00:43You have to score a touchdown.
00:45Then we went to, oh, both teams get to touch the ball at least once.
00:49Now we've gone to, oh, it doesn't matter if you score, when you score, the other team
00:53gets to score, and then if they match you, then we go back to the original version of
00:57then you can't kick a field goal, or then you have to score a touchdown, and then we
01:00go back to that version, and before that, we end up in sudden death again.
01:03So stupid.
01:05Stop tinkering with this stuff.
01:07Flip a coin, go play ball.
01:09This is not difficult.
01:11This is so stupid.
01:12The NFL has made overtime a joke.
01:15It's ridiculous.
01:17There's no point to, I would be more in favor of, guess what?
01:22If when you're tied and the clock strikes zero, the team that has the ball still gets
01:26to keep the ball.
01:27Like you may as well just do that.
01:29Like honestly, they've made this such a joke, I can't even fathom the words for it.
01:36Like back in the day, Texas high school football, where state championships were divided by
01:39a tie game, where who had the most first downs in a game won the state championship if it
01:44was a tie.
01:45Now going to extra, look, you have 60 minutes basically to win or lose a football game.
01:49Extra time, you sort of leave that up in the air.
01:51I don't mind the rules per se itself.
01:52I actually wanted a full 15 minutes as opposed to the first team gets it, runs it all the
01:56way down.
01:57Then you have a minute and 30 seconds to do something with the football.
01:59We'll probably also end up with a little bit more ties than not since one team could score
02:03a touchdown, eat up seven minutes.
02:05The other team goes down quickly and leaves the other team after a touchdown with 32 seconds
02:10left on the clock to do nothing with the football.
02:12So watch out for that.
02:13I don't think in the grand scheme of things, it's all that big of a change itself.
02:16I don't mind it.
02:17Mark doesn't like it here.
02:18It's just the way it is here.
02:19How about the adjusted dynamic kickoff, which I like?
02:23The old school kickoff.
02:24We're never going to get that back.
02:25Wedge busters, all that stuff, the stuff we loved, long kick returns because the kickers
02:28didn't have a strong enough leg.
02:29So the other team would automatically return it.
02:31I was watching games.
02:32I said it yesterday on radio.
02:33Mark, go back to the 80s and the early 90s, like just watching old Philadelphia Eagles
02:37highlights like Roger Rudjak, 62 kickoffs, four touchbacks on the season.
02:42We're never going back to that.
02:43So at least this brings the returns back into play because the penalty for kicking the football
02:47in the back of the end zone or into the stands results in a touchback, which brings it to
02:51the 35 yard line.
02:53Now expectations, Mark, 60 to 70% more returns this coming year.
02:58Come on, more action, Mark.
03:00You got to like that.
03:01It's more.
03:02No, I don't care.
03:04I'm not here for kickers.
03:06I don't.
03:07Again, especially from a betting perspective, there is nothing worse in a betting in a football
03:12game, particularly in under and having a kickoff return for a touchdown.
03:17It's just, you know, I mean, again, I get the point.
03:20They don't want to make the play boring, right?
03:23And you don't want to make it transactional where I score a touchdown and then, you know,
03:26we could just eliminate the kickoff altogether, give the ball, give the other team the ball
03:29in the 30 and let's start.
03:31Now you're going to penalize teams for being, for having a kicker who's strong enough to
03:37kick the ball to the back of the end zone.
03:39Again, why are we penalizing teams for having better players who can do things that not
03:46every other player can do?
03:48That's the point of it.
03:50And the idea of the idea that you're taking away a coaching decision of going, I'd rather
03:57just let them have the ball at the 30 and give me a touchback and put my defense on
04:01the field, then bring in some level of variance with a kickoff return team or a kickoff, you
04:07know, a defense team that could totally change the outcome of the game.
04:11I don't, I mean, again, you're, you're, you're punishing teams for having kickers who were
04:16good.
04:17And then you're taking coaching decisions out of coaches hands by forcing them to put
04:22together a return play.
04:24And I, I, that's not, I don't advocate for that.