The NFL’s new overtime rules, which guarantee both teams a possession, have changed most teams’ strategies: It used to be that the team winning the coin toss almost always chose to receive the overtime kickoff, but in the first three overtime games under this year’s new rules, the team that won the toss chose to kick off.
In this season’s fourth overtime game on Sunday, however, Jaguars head coach Liam Coen chose to receive. And he said that’s because regular-season overtime lasts only 10 minutes, and he wanted to run out the clock on the opening possession so the Raiders wouldn’t have much time for a drive of their own.
“That was something we had talked about really, in all of our game management meetings — in the regular season, that we wanted to take the football,” Coen said. “If we w

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