Patrick Mahomes on new OT rule: ‘Find a way to win the game’

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is conscious of the NFL’s new extra time guidelines, and evidently, he thinks it’s neither right here nor there.

“Your job is to discover a option to win the sport, irrespective of how lengthy it takes,” Mahomes informed Yahoo Finance.

As relayed by OutKick’s Meg Turner, the NFL handed a brand new rule that can permit each groups to own the ball throughout OT. Beforehand, if the primary group with the ball scored a landing in extra time, that was it — sport over.

After all, Mahomes is aware of all about extra time. It was his Chiefs who shocked the Buffalo Payments within the AFC playoffs this previous season by getting the ball first, scoring, and shifting on. (Then the Chiefs misplaced to the Cincinnati Payments within the AFC Championship sport.)

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) scores on an 8-yard landing run forward of Buffalo Payments security Micah Hyde (23) through the first half of an NFL divisional spherical playoff soccer sport, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo.
(AP Photograph/Charlie Riedel)

Per the New York Occasions, there have been 12 extra time playoff video games since 2010. And the group that had the ball first gained 10 of them.

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The brand new rule is prone to make issues a little bit extra honest, versus it being a case of whoever wins the coin toss stands a very good probability to win the sport.

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) throws a go through the first half of an NFL divisional spherical playoff soccer sport in opposition to the Buffalo Payments, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, in Kansas Metropolis, Mo.
(AP Photograph/Charlie Riedel)

“I’m certain there’ll be moments the place you’re feeling prefer it’s a very good choice,” Mahomes stated. “However then there can be moments if you rating that landing first and you’re feeling prefer it’s a nasty one. So that you simply go on the market and play and attempt to win the sport no matter method.”