The NFL is changing the way its overtimes operate in the postseason. Call it the Josh Allen Rule.
The league’s owners reportedly passed new legislation that will ensure that both teams get at least one possession in overtime of playoff games. That rule change, brought forth in different forms at the NFL’s Annual League Meeting by the Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts, and Tennessee Titans, eliminates the possibility of a team losing a postseason game without giving their offense a chance to even the score.
It’s a timely addition — fewer than three months earlier, the Buffalo Bills saw their playoff run snuffed out in overtime after the Kansas City Chiefs won the coin toss, scored a touchdown, and left Allen, who’d thrown for 329 yards and four touchdowns at that point, to watch helplessly from the bench.
