What the hell was Andy Reid thinking?!? Commentators missed it, but watch the clock on the last 2 plays.

Kelce gets 1st down inside the 10 with about 40 seconds to go. Chiefs leave 2 TOs on the board while the clock runs down to :06 before the last play. Luckily for KC the play went for a TD.

They could have run at least 4 plays given that they had 2 time outs. But they put it all on one play. Absolutely CRIMINAL clock mismanagement. I'm utterly shocked that no one seemed to catch this.

Edit: thanks for the explanation! I thought I was losing my mind. The new rules are pretty foreign to me.

Goes into a second OT period if its either tied or the second team hasn't completed their initial possession.

Technically, the Chiefs had never completed their first possession. So they would have rolled into the second OT with the ball still. If SF had forced a FG, game continues

Jack Cheese said:

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What the hell was Andy Reid thinking?!? Commentators missed it, but watch the clock on the last 2 plays.

Kelce gets 1st down inside the 10 with about 40 seconds to go. Chiefs leave 2 TOs on the board while the clock runs down to :06 before the last play. Luckily for KC the play went for a TD.

They could have run at least 4 plays given that they had 2 time outs. But they put it all on one play. Absolutely CRIMINAL clock mismanagement. I'm utterly shocked that no one seemed to catch this.

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My son and I were amazed.

Terrible clock management for the win tonight

But apparently not bc of dumb super bowl OT rules

LB12Diamond said:

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They would have just set the clock 15:00 more minutes.

Game clock not really needed unless the thinking was giving both teams a break after 15:00 minutes of play.

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Wild. Okay. Thanks. I thought I was losing my mind.

lol

Talked about on the NFL forum..

But the tv production was really bad...NFL changes rules for playoffs overtime... And yet they don't explain what's going on in detail..

Surely it should have occured to either announcer to point out the clock didn't matter as the clock wound down under a minute..crazy.

Romo was to busy going off on one of his tangents and talking through almost every play.

After hearing what the overtime rules where each team is guaranteed a possession, SF who won the toss should have elected to kickoff since you know what your opponent does with their possession. The same strategy as NCAA OT. I guess because they were worried what would happen on subsequent possessions.

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He literally said "for everyone screaming about the clock right now…."

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while they were showing a replay of the previous play and not showing what's the hell is going on, while people are freaking out bc they hadn't explained it prior?

Yeah that's good execution.

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After hearing what the overtime rules where each team is guaranteed a possession, SF who won the toss should have elected to kickoff since you know what your opponent does with their possession. The same strategy as NCAA OT. I guess because they were worried what would happen on subsequent possessions.

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No. But the f'd up that explanation too.

It was not about "rest" for the defense. The advantage of getting the ball first with those rules is if it's still tied after each team gets the ball, then Sf can score and win. Possibility of 2 possessions over only 1 for the other team trumps advantage of knowing what you need to get going second.

But again cbs should have explained this ***** Totally unprepared for playoffs ot.

great point from Aston 04 on why SF took ball first. I didnt think about the D tired argument, but the point about getting the first sudden death possession after a tied "first possession" by each team is indeed the point that trumps.

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Romo talking like Twitchy from hoodwinked after drinking coffee for most of the game makes it easy to tune him out.

He has several annoying habits. Besides using to many adjactives, him continuing to talk throughout many of the plays during live action is the worst. Can you at least just talk after the play or during replays. Nope, just goes on and on.

Romo was off a lot for the biggest game of the year. He doesn't have it

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revvie said:

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After hearing what the overtime rules where each team is guaranteed a possession, SF who won the toss should have elected to kickoff since you know what your opponent does with their possession. The same strategy as NCAA OT. I guess because they were worried what would happen on subsequent possessions.

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No. But the f'd up that explanation too.

It was about "rest" for the defense. The advantage of getting the ball first with those rules is if it's still tied after each team gets the ball, then Sf can score and win. Possibility of 2 possessions over only 1 for the other team trumps advantage of knowing what you need to get going second.

But again cbs should have explained this ***** Totally unprepared for playoffs ot.

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You go def first. You get a stop you win with fg. They score, you have 4th down certainty. You both score tds, you go for 2.

Romo sounds like he partied last night.

Aside from not explaining the most critical moment of the game he did alright and was entertaining.

From Kyle Shanahan

Coach Kyle Shanahan said the decision to take the ball at the beginning of overtime was pre-determined. If both teams were tied after one possession apiece, he wanted to be the one that got the third possession, and the sudden-death advantage.

— Matt Maiocco (Threads @maiocconbcs) (@MaioccoNBCS) February 12, 2024

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great point from Aston 04 on why SF took ball first. I didnt think about the D tired argument, but the point about getting the first sudden death possession after a tied "first possession" by each team is indeed the point that trumps.

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Since you were such a jerk on your previous post, I'll point out that Romo "literally" said that a reason for taking the ball first is to give a tired defense a rest. "Maybe English as a first language" is something you should work on.

I was the one who stated this thread. What probably happens is (stay with me here...) people talk a lot while watching the Super Bowl - especially during an exciting, close one, so they miss stuff that is explained by the commentators.

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Divining Rod said:

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great point from Aston 04 on why SF took ball first. I didnt think about the D tired argument, but the point about getting the first sudden death possession after a tied "first possession" by each team is indeed the point that trumps.

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Since you were such a jerk on your previous post, I'll point out that Romo "literally" said that a reason for taking the ball first is to give a tired defense a rest. "Maybe English as a first language" is something you should work on.

I was the one who stated this thread. What probably happens is (stay with me here...) people talk a lot while watching the Super Bowl - especially during an exciting, close one, so they miss stuff that is explained by the commentators.

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I heard him say it but didn't know what the hell he was talking about because the rule is so odd.

They definitely could have handled it better.

The only purpose of the clock running in playoffs overtime is to limit timeouts to 3 per team for each 2 quarter period. I assume the second quarter has a 2 minute warning and is like a third "half". Like the ref said it's like a new game. We may never know unless a game goes that long.

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revvie said:

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After hearing what the overtime rules where each team is guaranteed a possession, SF who won the toss should have elected to kickoff since you know what your opponent does with their possession. The same strategy as NCAA OT. I guess because they were worried what would happen on subsequent possessions.

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No. But the f'd up that explanation too.

It was not about "rest" for the defense. The advantage of getting the ball first with those rules is if it's still tied after each team gets the ball, then Sf can score and win. Possibility of 2 possessions over only 1 for the other team trumps advantage of knowing what you need to get going second.

But again cbs should have explained this ***** Totally unprepared for playoffs ot.

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It wasn't just CBS. Maurice Jones Drew on the NFL Network postgame show made comments that showed that he didn't understand the new rules either.

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Jack Cheese said:

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What the hell was Andy Reid thinking?!? Commentators missed it, but watch the clock on the last 2 plays.

Kelce gets 1st down inside the 10 with about 40 seconds to go. Chiefs leave 2 TOs on the board while the clock runs down to :06 before the last play. Luckily for KC the play went for a TD.

They could have run at least 4 plays given that they had 2 time outs. But they put it all on one play. Absolutely CRIMINAL clock mismanagement. I'm utterly shocked that no one seemed to catch this.

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My son and I were amazed.

Terrible clock management for the win tonight

But apparently not bc of dumb super bowl OT rules

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It's people not understanding, and the networks not explaining it well, not "terrible click management".

Mahomes said that in almost every team meeting since the playoffs started, they had a session explaining this new rule (thanks, Buffalo) to the point that he was sick of hearing about it every day. But it paid off in this game.

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From Kyle Shanahan

Coach Kyle Shanahan said the decision to take the ball at the beginning of overtime was pre-determined. If both teams were tied after one possession apiece, he wanted to be the one that got the third possession, and the sudden-death advantage.

— Matt Maiocco (Threads @maiocconbcs) (@MaioccoNBCS) February 12, 2024

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but Andy Reid said he was prepared to negate that advantage by going for 2 if KC scored a TD

the 49ers should have thought about kicking off / choosing defense...like the college game

the TV did a terrible job of explaining it. I only knew because my son explained the change to everyone before OT started.

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You go def first. You get a stop you win with fg. They score, you have 4th down certainty. You both score tds, you go for 2.

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Bingo

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the TV did a terrible job of explaining it. I only knew because my son explained the change to everyone before OT started.

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I tried to explain it to our group, but even the article I found didn't explain it very well. And in the end it's pretty simple, and the ref said it. It's a new game. With quarters, just with the possibility of sudden death mixed in.

As a 49ers fan, I found his post-game explanation for receiving the ball to start overtime a bit odd, Kyle Shanahan has often talked about his strategy of deferring possession when winning the coin toss in regulation. Evidently, that logic does not extend to playoff overtime.

In regular-season overtime, this would make sense. Score a touchdown on the first possession, and the game is over. But in the Super Bowl? Score a touchdown, and the other team still gets a possession. Opting to receive the ball first certainly appears to have a bigger advantage during the regular season. Instead, Shanahan explained his logic by saying the 49ers wanted to have the ball third in overtime. If both teams matched each other touchdown for touchdown or field goal for field goal, Shanahan wanted the 49ers to have the first crack at a sudden death score.

"It's just something we talked about with, you know none of us had a ton of experience with it, but we went through all the analytics and talked to those guys and we decided it would be better we wanted the ball third," Shanahan said. "If both teams matched and scored, we wanted to be the ones to have a chance to go win. We got that field goal so we knew we had to hold them to at least a field goal and if we did then we thought it was in our hands after that."

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/kyle-shanahan-explanation-coin-flip-post-game-overtime-49ers/2bde25ca3f47d31c95b2391b

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Instead, Shanahan explained his logic by saying the 49ers wanted to have the ball third in overtime. If both teams matched each other touchdown for touchdown or field goal for field goal, Shanahan wanted the 49ers to have the first crack at a sudden death score.

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This makes perfect sense to me, but as someone said this morning, it requires utmost confidence that you're going to score a TD and/or be able to hold the other team to a FG or less.

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revvie said:

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From Kyle Shanahan

Coach Kyle Shanahan said the decision to take the ball at the beginning of overtime was pre-determined. If both teams were tied after one possession apiece, he wanted to be the one that got the third possession, and the sudden-death advantage.

— Matt Maiocco (Threads @maiocconbcs) (@MaioccoNBCS) February 12, 2024

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but Andy Reid said he was prepared to negate that advantage by going for 2 if KC scored a TD

the 49ers should have thought about kicking off / choosing defense...like the college game

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Except the game could still have been tied after 1 possession each... following a punt OR missed fg by each team... or a fg by each team...

I think if you ran statistical analysis it would say to get the ball first. But I agree it's not a total no-brainer--- which actually makes it a good OT format.

Just tv needed to outline what's going on to the audience in depth--- for something that's literally never happened before in a NFL game almost happened (go from quarter 1 of OT to quarter 2 of OT)..

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Aston04 said:

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revvie said:

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After hearing what the overtime rules where each team is guaranteed a possession, SF who won the toss should have elected to kickoff since you know what your opponent does with their possession. The same strategy as NCAA OT. I guess because they were worried what would happen on subsequent possessions.

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No. But the f'd up that explanation too.

It was not about "rest" for the defense. The advantage of getting the ball first with those rules is if it's still tied after each team gets the ball, then Sf can score and win. Possibility of 2 possessions over only 1 for the other team trumps advantage of knowing what you need to get going second.

But again cbs should have explained this ***** Totally unprepared for playoffs ot.

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It wasn't just CBS. Maurice Jones Drew on the NFL Network postgame show made comments that showed that he didn't understand the new rules either.

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Yeah the MJD comments were embarrassing. He asked Andy Reid about it and Reid kinda blew it off. Then he asked Mahomes the same question. You would think someone in the production truck would explain this to him to keep him from sounding foolish. It's one thing for fans not to understand the rules but the folks on the NFL Network set SHOULD know the rules.