What NFL rule(s) would you change?

The Tuck Rule!

Prefers the sudden death overtime. It makes EVERY play in OT an important one. Why ruin a already good thing? So you want to punish a team that has WON their division even though their record may not be as good as a wildcard team from a different division? Maybe that team that won their division plays in a tougher division. Maybe that wildcard team that went 12-4 played a weak schedule because of last year being 4-12. You are rewarding medocrisy. Allowing bonus cap money to the SB teams? That would only allow the best teams getting better and would create large gaps between the haves and the have nots. The league WANTS parity, the system is set up to insure just that. There have been dominate teams since the current cap rules. The Denver teams of the late 90's, the New England teams of the 2000 era. Granted under the current rules the window to hold those teams together is smaller than in the past but again that is really what the league wants, parity, new teams succeeding, it spreads out the fan base and the overall support for the NFL. The current system works.

That stupid Tom Brady Rule, and any roughing the passer rule, or roughing the kicker, and some of the passing interference's on the receivers. It needs to be like the 1960's to 170's football where the rules were much harder and records were actually harder earned. Jerry Rice had a hard time getting his passes because of harder rules...if Jerry Rice had these easy rules, he'd easily have a 30 TD season with 2,500 receiving yards because no one could touch him. Could you imagine Joe Montana or John Elway with these rules, they'd have 5,000 yard seasons or a freak 5,500 to 6,000 yard season with 50 to 65 TD's in a season because you simply can't touch the QB's or receivers anymore. They need to change the offensive line rules too, I think to protect your QB, you should be able to do anything possible to keep a defender off your RB or QB, except for kicking in the balls. The horse collar rule, where you can't grab the collar of a player when running behind him for the tackle...but you can pull their hair? Makes no sense. Just my own personal opinion, the NFL is just getting softer and Rugby players will be having the opportunity to really rag on American Football. Change the overtime rules to the College Overtime...like the man upstairs said...Have 15 minutes for each quarter after the 4th. Flip a coin and let her rip like a normal football game. Team A scores a field goal, and Team B does too, Team A goes again, they don't score, but Team B does, Team B wins. But if Team A does score, and Team B doesn't, Team A wins. Whoever has the higher points, obviously, wins. Simple.

Take the training wheels of our quaterbacks! Get rid of the tuck rule, the new rule they implemented this offseason to stop people diving from their knee's at quaterbacks and the helmet to helmet contact rule.

My reasons for removing these 3 rules

1. Toughen the game back to reasonable standards

2. I feel it will either force the quarterbacks to air the ball out less to protect their 'game managers' and push teams to run the ball more which will make these 2 back systems more exciting eg. Panthers could you imagine the excitement of Stewart and Williams getting 50 touches on the ball a game? same thing with Jacobs and Bradshaw at the Giants!

3. Guys like Larry Johnson wont be getting 450+ touches on the ball so they some how might last a season

4. Run defence becomes important, teams like the 06 Colts will need a defensive front! DE's like Tyson Jackson should be valued because he is a stout run defender not devalued just because he isnt the worlds greatest pass rusher. More rushing carries will mean a lot less passes meaning these rush-line backers who often become draft busts will have to play a real position as a complete player .

5. Quarterbacks will go for more vertical passing game to force the ball field or those spread guys who play at 95% of colleges who normally fail can be athletic and run the ball from the pocket and yes, no one wants to have the quarterback like Tavaris Jackson but this change allows guys to adjust and the Tim Tebow's and the Pat White's can be usable in the NFL and when they adjust let them swap styles from spread to pro but it wont happen over night

6. Quarterbacks arnt dropping back 40 times a game and hence teams like Pittsburg and Baltimore dont have 20 shots on your average NFL quarterback hence less injurys to them in general

7. Speed kills with so much attention on the run, you get 1 on 1 match ups down field, exciting after the catch runs becomes better when we have the 4 defensive backs vs 3 reciever sets or the 2 reciever with a recieving tight end. We might even see a tight end who cares about blocking for once! I understand yes, the mismatch of guys like K2 and Vernon Davis will be missing but if they are technically big wide recievers with good hands in traffic and they have all the space in the world and if your bigger than a fullback and can run low 4.5s you can truck a safety or a corner

8. Less points.period. last year was so outrageous in the scoring department i felt sick in week 2 Dallas vs Philly both teams had high quality defences but both got shredded by Mcnabb and a rookie wide out and Romo and TO.

9. Wearing the defence down, with 50 carries a game, a defence would actually render far more yardage as the game wore on guys like AD would be even more exciting and imagine a 3rd year Chris Johnson?

10. Guards and Centers become just as important as Tackles as the inside ground game takes a very significant role in a team's success, Power backs like Leron Mclain are pushed back to half back and real blocking fullbacks who want to be fullbacks are in there blocking.

I agree with a change to OT rules but they are not horrible now. I think more plays should be challengable. Chargers losing on a Hoculi mistake is unjust. Humans make mistakes - they should be able to fix it.

Also, if you win a coaches challenge - you should get one back - not only if you get both right. When you get a challenge right, it means that there's indisputable evidence that the refs messed up. So because a coach throws a challenge and is proven right, now he has to be super careful with his last one? If he was right, then give him back his challenge.

Get rid of the 'no touching a receiver after 5 yds' rule as well as the tuck rule and the new "Brady rule." Make the game more like it used to be and less like a game of catch.

Tom Brady Rule

It wasn't a malicious incident, just a freak accident by Pollard. No need for a rule IMO

Change OT to the first team to score 6 points wins.

I would change football overtime to baseball overtime. If team number one scores a field goal, the other team most a field goal or better. If they score field goal the other team goes again, and so on. If one teams cores a safety, they automatically win, though. If team one scores a field goal and the other team scores a TD and then the team one losses.

roughing the kicker, some of the pass interferance calls are gay and in the OT i would change it so it's more like basketball. give the two teams a 10 min quarter and whoever scores the most at the end of the quarter wins.

I guess I'd change the rules about overtime. I like the college overtime rules better.