Ties are very infrequent in the NFL.
Ties were eliminated in college football a long time ago. With that being said, NFL players should know the overtime rules. The only time sudden death applies is in the playoffs.
If I were an NFL player, I wouldn’t admit this publicly.
Najee Harris went back to the bench after Pat Freiermuth’s overtime fumble and gathered himself for the Steelers’ next offensive drive. Only problem: There wouldn’t be another Pittsburgh possession.
“I didn’t even know you could tie in the NFL,” Harris said. “In my mind, I was sitting on the bench saying, ‘I’ve got another quarter to go.’ But someone came to me and said, ‘That’s it.’ I’ve never had a tie in my life before.”
Harris wasn’t the only one who wasn’t expecting the abrupt, unsatisfying ending.
“It’s nuts,” Lions second-year running back Godwin Igwebuike said. “I’m back there like, ‘Yo, how many overtimes can we do?’ And they’re like ‘three’ … I hear ‘two, one’ and we were like, ‘Yo, whatever’s going on, we’re about to just put our all into it.'”
The game was one of the worst games of the year, but that made it so entertaining.
It was as if both teams were trying to throw the game. The QB matchup of Jared Goff and Mason Rudolph was about as bad as you could imagine.
Ben Roethlisberger isn’t great anymore, but he is better than what the Steelers have on the bench.
The Lions just seemed cursed.
This is a game they could have won at least seven different times during the matchup, but they continually shot themselves in the foot.
They should be lucky they came out of there with a tie and don’t have to worry about becoming the first 0-17 team in NFL history.
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