We had a chance if we would have won the last game of the season...and we would have been 8-8. So...I didn't complain about it when we had a chance in 2010 and I'm not going to start now. Whatever happens, happens.
If a team wins their division at 7-9 or 6-10 how hard could their schedule really be? They have 6 games against teams that have 6 wins or less...plus 4-6 more teams with losing records, and up to 8. They could have a schedule where 14 of 16 teams they faced had losing records...and most likely no less than 10.Leave it.
Don't mind a .500 or less team making it if they played a harder schedule than a non division winner with a cake schedule
I do wonder if people would have turned against Spags as quickly as many did if that game wasn't for a playoff spot. I didn't really hear much grumbling before then, but maybe I just missed it.We had a chance if we would have won the last game of the season...and we would have been 8-8. So...
It sure seemed at that point that the team was headed in the right direction...but it sure went south the following year.I do wonder if people would have turned against Spags as quickly as many did if that game wasn't for a playoff spot. I didn't really hear much grumbling before then, but maybe I just missed it.
If a team wins their division at 7-9 or 6-10 how hard could their schedule really be? They have 6 games against teams that have 6 wins or less...plus 4-6 more teams with losing records, and up to 8. They could have a schedule where 14 of 16 teams they faced had losing records...and most likely no less than 10.
Problem is this is all guessing. A Team that plays the NFC West (and we all know the division records last year) and say the AFC East Is not nearly as difficult as say playing the AFC South/West and NFC South (Atlanta leads the south and hasn't beaten a team out of their division).
If you can't win your division, your prize shouldn't be having homefield advantage over a team that did simply because you have a better record. Otherwise, whats the point of divisions? Think about the snowball effect too - if a team with an easier schedule has 1 more win than a "better team" but with a tougher schedule... Wouldn't be right.
playing in a tough division like the NFC West is one thing - playing the NFC East/South and AFC West/South is another. Think about that how effects your schedule - instead of 6 games against the cards, niners, and seahawks, if you were in the afc south you'd play Falcons, Saints, Panthers, or Bucs Twice....
Win your division first, and foremost. Runner ups shouldn't get a better consolation prize than those who did win their divisions
Umm, exactly...if you win your division against that group and still have a losing record there is no way you are one of the elite teams. I thought the postseason was meant to find who the best of the best is. I hardly find a 6-10 or 7-9 team as elite. Give that team the title as NFC South Champion then award the playoff spot to a team truly deserving.
That's just my opinion...all good if you disagree but I really don't see how that argument is supposed to make me think differently?
But a bad team playing in a bad division should?Right but I think if you're supposedly a really good team that deserves home field advantage you wouldn't have finished second in your division..And if you're really that good of a team, playing a "lesser team" on the road shouldn't matter much.
If you want home field advantage win your division - I don't think runner ups should get it.
But a bad team playing in a bad division should?
That's an interesting take.
I think you MUST have a winning record to make the playoffs. If no one in a division is over .500, the team with the best record not in the playoffs gets the spot.
When I see a 10-6 team miss the playoffs but a 7-9 team make it, it pisses me off. That 10-6 team deserves the spot.
As a Wild Card team - yes but not as Division champs. Of course we DID beat the division chumps three times that season.I seem to remember a Rams team finishing 8-8 and making the playoffs once upon a time.
Same here. Otherwise you've got 4 divisional teams all fighting for draft position in December. Sort of like in fantasy football and the team you're competing with to get to the playoffs has a matchup against the guy who hasn't looked at his lineup in a month.I'm ok with the way it is.
Otherwise, you might as well just scrap all divisions.