1. No overtime during the regular season; there is nothing wrong with a tie.

2. During the playoffs, each team either gets the ball at least once on offense (modified college rules) or a touchdown must be scored for a win, field goals in this scenario would not count.

3. Change the review rules to allow coaches’ challenges in an overtime scenario.

4. Allow as many coaches’ challenges as there are mandatory commercial breaks, that way there is something going on in the game while the TV audience is busy with marketing ploys.

5. Allow booth reviews that are not coaches’ challenges outside of overtime and 2 minutes to play in a half.

6. Stop giving an opposing team 7 yards for free on a missed field goal attempt. A team should not be penalized for missing a field goal and this would help increase long field goal attempts. Really, a team is not penalized for going for it on 4th down in the red zone and failing to score, so why are field goal attempts treated differently?

That’s really it for now, oh wait…

7. Bring the Pro-Bowl back to Hawaii. It is ludicrous to play it the week before the Superbowl; no one cared when it was a week after and no one will care now that it is a week before. Oh that’s right, the host city cares because it is one more money making opportunity. What a load of crap.

More to follow…

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SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Walsh changed the look of the NFL with his offensive innovations and legion of coaching disciples, breaking new ground and winning three Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers in the process.

Nicknamed “The Genius” for his creative schemes that became known as the West Coast offense, Walsh died at his Woodside home Monday morning following a long battle with leukemia. He was 75.

Bill Walsh innovated the game he loved by being a revolutionary that brought the style of play now known as the West Coast Offense to the NFL.  There haven’t been too many great coaches like Coach Walsh in football; Walsh, Vince Lombardi, Joe Paterno, and Joe Gibbs would comprise my top foursome.  At the end of the day, the on field accomplishments don’t end up meaning a whole lot other than to sentimental fans.  The real achievement is to be respected, loved, and missed by those you coached and mentored; the ones who knew you outside of the game. 

“This is just a tremendous loss for all of us, especially to the Bay Area because of what he meant to the 49ers,” said the 49ers’ Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana. “Outside of my dad he was probably the most influential person in my life. I am going to miss him.”

That probably sums up his legacy right there, one of the greatest hall of fame quarterbacks of all time speaking about one of the greatest hall of fame coaches of all time.  Coach Walsh’s contributions to the game of football on and off the field will be dearly missed.