Buffalo Bills to submit proposal to change NFL overtime rules in playoffs

INDIANAPOLIS – More than a month has passed since Josh Allen called tails, the coin came up heads, and the Buffalo Bills quarterback never saw the ball again in the AFC Divisional Round playoff loss to Kansas City.

The Chiefs won the toss to start overtime, Patrick Mahomes marched them easily down field to his game-winning TD pass to Travis Kelce, and just like that the Bills’ season was over and screaming about the overtime rules commenced.

Only this time, it wasn’t just bitter Bills fans spewing injustice, it was NFL fans chiming in because the best game of the NFL season – one of the best games in the history of the league, quite frankly – felt a little tainted due to the fact that the Bills didn’t get a chance to possess the ball in the extra period.

The NFL’s Competition Committee is set to meet in Indianapolis this week to discuss several issues, but one that figures to be front and center will be altering the overtime rules to ensure that both teams get a possession.

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The Bills plan to submit a proposal that would impact only postseason games, while the Colts will present a solution which they want applied to the regular season, too.

“I do think there will be some changes,” Bills general manager Brandon Beane said Tuesday during his media session at the NFL Scouting Combine. “I think there’s, I don’t know how many proposals, but a GM and I laughed at the Senior Bowl that there was going to be 32 different proposals.”

As it stands today, if the team that possesses the ball first scores a touchdown on the opening drive, the game is over. If it scores a field goal, or doesn’t score, the opposing team gets the ball and can either win the game with a touchdown, or tie it with a field goal.

In the regular season, if the game is tied after 10 minutes, it’s…