The NFL has had three overtime games this season, and in all three the team that won the coin toss elected to kick off to start overtime. That’s a departure from overtimes of the past, when receiving the overtime kickoff was viewed as a big advantage, and a sign of how much the league’s new overtime rules that guarantee both teams a possession have changed strategies.

Lions head coach Dan Campbell says he thinks the three coaches whose teams have won overtime coin tosses — Giants coach Brian Daboll in Week Two, Packers coach Matt LeFleur in Week Four and Rams coach Sean McVay in Week Five — all made the right call by kicking off.

“You want the ball last. You want to know what you have to get. I think that would be the norm with the new rules now,” Campbell said.

But Campbell noted that

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