Fact: I don’t think anyone cares NFLthe rules of his overtime, whether it’s in the regular season or the postseason. Until college football he decided to screw it up, he actually had the best overtime version. Each team should be allowed to possess the ball. If you tie your opponent’s score on your first two possessions, you must go for 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 visiting team, you have to. In the last few minutes Monday night footballto Todd Bowles Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a chance to do just that against the undefeated and two-time defense Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs in their place. It should have gone for two.

You had a chance to end the Chiefs’ perfect season in regulation at their place. Tampa Bay was 4-4 and 1.5 games behind the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South race, a team that had already completed their season sweep. Even if Tampa Bay hadn’t stopped, no one would have batted an eye at the attempt. It was the right situation to go for the win rather than leave it to chance in extra time.

Kansas City won it in overtime. Bowles cited “wet field conditions” as to why Tampa Bay hit it.

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

I remember listening The Herd with Colin Cowherd in the old days. Between his unabashed enjoyment of all things Lincoln Riley football and the USC Trojans, he had a great idea about the NFL overtime. He believes the visiting team should receive the ball first. After all, they had to overcome so much to even force travel overtime, and they were probably a letdown in most cases anyway.

I can kind of walk away from that, even though college football overtime is still far better than anything the NFL tweaked this week. That being said, the NFL’s first overtime possession is determined by a coin. This is football after all. Although I’ve learned to accept that if you score a touchdown on the first possession that counts as a win, you can’t leave it up to chance.

In my opinion, you’re only playing overtime as an away team if you have to kick a field goal to get there. If you score a touchdown like the Buccaneers did, you might as well go 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 go is the most cowardly thing in football I’ve ever heard.