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Not if you make the modification suggested below by Pat85

I am very surprised the NFL has not already made that adjustment, as this was widely recommended by NFL people in the media prior to the big change in the OT rules. Ensure each team one possession regardless of the score, and that would solve the issues you have with the current system. I would be fine with eliminating an extra point option and requiring a two-point try to make it even more likely to be resolved after two possessions, but any option including the current NFL is better than college which has turned OT into a shootout that eliminates too many of the elements of the normal game, and almost always puts one or both defenses in the horrible position of defending consecutive redzone possessions after having already played 60 minutes.