You'll be throwing picks for the Browns this year, Jake.

I’m glad NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wanted to try to fix the inequity of the league’s overtime rules, but I don’t like what he did. The NFL has modified overtime (just for the postseason) so that if a team wins a coin toss and kicks a field goal, the other team will now get a possession. I still prefer the Afflictor solution, which altered OT for the regular season as well as postseason. It was posted on December 29, 2009. An excerpt:

The problem. In the current system, which started 35 years ago, a coin flip determines which team gets the ball first in OT. Since it’’s sudden death, that first possession is key and the team that gets the ball first wins more games by a few percentage points. Chance shouldn’t determine the first and potentially only possession.

The changes I’d make. In order to favor merit over luck, there’d be no more coin toss. If there is a tie at the end of regulation, a 10-minute overtime period would begin from exactly where the action stands at the end of regulation. Even if one team scores, the ten minutes will be played to completion. If the game is tied at the end of this period, a horn will sound and a five-minute sudden-death period will commence from where the action stands. The first team that scores in this period wins. If neither team scores, the game is a tie. In playoffs, the five-minute sudden-death portion continues until there is a winner.