New Playoff Seeding Idea

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Ram65 said:
Traditionalists, including several coaches and owners, argue that guaranteeing a home playoff game preserves the high stakes of division rivalries down to Week 18.
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Solution:
Have a better organization and WIN more games.
After playing in the same conference for the entire season, a team with a better overall record, but only a wild card because of being in the better division, is still relegated to being a visiting team to a weaker division champ.
And screw the 18 game season, too. Shorter player's careers is going to be a result of that move. More $$ all around, except the league will always be there collecting the additional revenues, the players will get more too, but not for as long as they play now, imo.
I know 18 games is inevitable because the league always just casually slips those comments about wanting it into any "official" conversations for about 3-4 years, before really trying to make a change stick.
And it will stick.
 
Ground Chuck said:
You make it sound like there needs to be a reprinting of 10,000 leather-bound rulebooks or something.

Every year there are new rules in the NFL. Some are ridiculous. Some make a lot of sense.

ONCE is often enough to make a change like this. And it happens more than once in a while. Happened last year. About to happen again this year.

So yeah, it does happen often enough to change the rules.
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7-10 division winner is pushing it but I think 8-9 is fine. We almost lost to them and they beat us earlier. It wasn't like it was an uncompetitive game.
 
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majrleaged said:
I like it they way it is except for 2 things. Only 1 team gets a bye. I think that is bullshit because of the strength of schedule can have to much to do with it.
Second. If a team wins the division with a loosing record they don't get a home field advantage. They get seeded like a WC team.
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I like the 1 week bye. There aren't any byes in the NBA or NHL. It makes the playoffs more uncertain.
 
RamsOfCastamere said:
Winning your division has to mean something, otherwise what is the point? What goes around comes around, eventually. We would have gladly accepted that playoff spot if Bradford and Danario got it done.
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That kick to the nuts still hurts. Losing that last game to the Seachickens to some backup chump named Charlie Whitehurst who had, for the entire year, before playing us, a total of 63 passing attemps for the entire season. He plays us and has 36 attemps in that game alone, looks like Unitas out there, and wins the division with a 7-9 record. Just brutal. Thanks for the nightmare memories, Coach Spags.
 
My opinion is this. There should be 4 division winners. 4 wild cards. Everyone gets a bye. Playoffs begin two after the final regular season game. The advantage for top seeds is home field. Each division winner gets in the playoffs. But home field is decided by record. Not a division winner. Everyone gets a week off to rest before the first round. One game on Friday. 3 games on Saturday. 3 on Sunday and one on Monday. And for Christ's sake don't put any games on a damn paid streaming service! Let everyone watch the game they want.
 
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snackdaddy said:
My opinion is this. There should be 4 division winners. 4 wild cards. Everyone gets a bye. Playoffs begin two after the final regular season game. The advantage for top seeds is home field. Each division winner gets in the playoffs. But home field is decided by record. Not a division winner. Everyone gets a week off to rest before the first round. One game on Friday. 3 games on Saturday. 3 on Sunday and one on Monday. And for Christ's sake don't put any games on a damn paid streaming service! Let everyone watch the game they want.
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This is actually an even better plan.

You brought some Big Weiner Energy with that take @snackdaddy
 
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