Looks like the overtime rule for the playoffs will be changing moving forward, as the NFL owners voted 28-4 to adopt the competition committee’s proposal to change overtime only for the postseason.

The four teams voting against the proposal were Baltimore, Cincinnati, Buffalo and Minnesota.

I don’t like the change to overtime, but I understand why they feel like the percentages fall to heavily toward the team that wins the coin toss. What do you think? Do you like the new proposal? Let us know in the comments section.

The NFL announced today that league owners passed four player safety rules that will go into effect next season during meetings in California this week

The first is the elimination of blindside, helmet-to-helmet blocks.

According to the report, new rules state that the initial force of a blindside block can’t be delivered by a helmet, forearm or shoulder to an opponent’s head or neck. An illegal blindside block will bring a 15-yard penalty. Check out the block by Pittsburgh’s Hines Ward on Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Keith Rivers and you’ll understand what the owners are getting at here.

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I was talking to defensive coordinator John Marshall about what he’s going to do if he finds himself short of linebackers come Monday Night. Right now, three of the seven LBs on the roster aren’t able to practice.

He said the backup to the backups are two safeties: Brian Russell and Deon Grant. He said the Seahawks are lucky because they’ve got some versatile guys, guys like Julian Peterson and Jordan Babineaux, who can play multiple positions and guys like Russell and Grant who can come in to finish out a game.

He said when he was the

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