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he NFL has officially expanded the postseason to 14 teams for the 2020-21 season.
Each conference will now have a third wild card with only one team getting a first round bye. No. 1 seeds already had a staggering advantage. It will now be even more daunting. While studies have shown hardly any losing teams would have qualified for the postseason under this format over the past 30 years, it is still wholly unnecessary. Sixth seeds are already quite frequently barely worthy of the postseason tournament. That being said, more football is more football.
SOURCE: Ian Rapoport on Twitter
Speaking Tuesday, NFL executive Jeff Pash confirmed the league is "fully directed" toward playing a normal 16-game season with a full postseason in 2020.
“Our planning, our expectation, is fully directed at playing a full season starting on schedule and having a full regular season and a full set of playoffs," Pash said before admitting some uncertainty. "Am I certain? I’m not certain that I’ll be here tomorrow. But I’m planning on it.” So far, the NFL has been doing its best to treat COVID-19 more as a minor nuisance than existential threat to the 2020 season, but that is largely a convenience afforded by the calendar. The reality is, it won't be up to the league, but mother nature and America's response to the unprecedented pandemic. The course of events by June and July will determine the fate of the 2020 campaign.
a flurry of COVID-19 related updates on Tuesday, the NFL said it was hoping to release the regular season schedule no later than May 9, and that it will aim for "virtual programs" for offseason activities.
The league also announced its socially-distanced guidelines for draft rooms, mandating that "no more than 10 people in every room," and that everyone must be at least six feet apart. Some states have banned gatherings even that large, though we assume the NFL will be allowed to look the other way. The NFL has yet to formally cancel OTAs, but the "virtual programs" announcement is an acknowledgment they are not going to happen. The NFL is insisting that it has yet to consider contingencies to a normal regular season, though obviously the talks have to be happening behind the scenes.
Each conference will now have a third wild card with only one team getting a first round bye. No. 1 seeds already had a staggering advantage. It will now be even more daunting. While studies have shown hardly any losing teams would have qualified for the postseason under this format over the past 30 years, it is still wholly unnecessary. Sixth seeds are already quite frequently barely worthy of the postseason tournament. That being said, more football is more football.
SOURCE: Ian Rapoport on Twitter
Speaking Tuesday, NFL executive Jeff Pash confirmed the league is "fully directed" toward playing a normal 16-game season with a full postseason in 2020.
“Our planning, our expectation, is fully directed at playing a full season starting on schedule and having a full regular season and a full set of playoffs," Pash said before admitting some uncertainty. "Am I certain? I’m not certain that I’ll be here tomorrow. But I’m planning on it.” So far, the NFL has been doing its best to treat COVID-19 more as a minor nuisance than existential threat to the 2020 season, but that is largely a convenience afforded by the calendar. The reality is, it won't be up to the league, but mother nature and America's response to the unprecedented pandemic. The course of events by June and July will determine the fate of the 2020 campaign.
a flurry of COVID-19 related updates on Tuesday, the NFL said it was hoping to release the regular season schedule no later than May 9, and that it will aim for "virtual programs" for offseason activities.
The league also announced its socially-distanced guidelines for draft rooms, mandating that "no more than 10 people in every room," and that everyone must be at least six feet apart. Some states have banned gatherings even that large, though we assume the NFL will be allowed to look the other way. The NFL has yet to formally cancel OTAs, but the "virtual programs" announcement is an acknowledgment they are not going to happen. The NFL is insisting that it has yet to consider contingencies to a normal regular season, though obviously the talks have to be happening behind the scenes.
