Three flags in three quarters is your idea of heavily flagged?

Right. Personally, as far as the regular season goes, I'd prefer no overtime at all. Just let ties be ties. When you're in the playoffs and you need a winner, I think just playing an extra period is the least-bad option. I realize neither part of this is at all likely to happen, though.

Reid is also the master of the nice 8 minute-long drive when his team is down with 4 minutes left in the game.

What's wrong with conditioning and depth being a deciding factor, though? Those are things a team can control, unlike the outcome of a coin flip. Sure, Falcons probably would've lost by more, but the test of a good OT system isn't whether or not it benefits the Falcons.

Excluding ties, the team that gets the ball first has won 54.8 percent of the time, since the current overtime rules were instated. For reference, under college football's OT rules, the team that gets to go second wins 54.9 percent of the time.