Random NFL talk

[Battlelyon]

 

[Schmoopy1000]

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this cant be right.
Where's the Browns?

 

[jarntt]

Wow if they give Pacheco a contract like this

 

[Battlelyon]

 

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this cant be right.
Where's the Browns?

The Browns are in the AFC North.
The Browns have NEVER won the AFC North.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

You go 14-3 and are rewarded by having to play a 10-7 team on the road in a city that's on fire. Sometimes it does look like Vikings Fan will never see a Super Bowl title.

 

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You go 14-3 and are rewarded by having to play a 10-7 team on the road in a city that's on fire. Sometimes it does look like Vikings Fan will never see a Super Bowl title.

There's no perfect way to seed teams because teams don't play the same schedule. The NFC East played the AFC North, (the best of the 4 AFC divisions), and the NFC South, (the weakest of the 4 NFC divisions). The NFC West played the best of the 4 NFC divisions and a middling AFC division. Who's to say who had the tougher overall schedule. I'm fine with giving the top 4 seeds to the divisional winners. I don't think it would be fair to just use the outright record to say an 11-6 Wildcard team is better than a 10-7 division winner.

As a compromise i'd be fine with accrediting divisional winners with 6 extra wins for seeding purposes - so that by win percentage a 13-4 Wildcard team would beat out a 10-7 division winner with an adjusted 16-7 record. However, the NFL audience includes the lower end of the US market. Regulations have to be simple. Some of the audience struggle with a 15 yard penalty being converted into a half-the-distance-to-the-goal penalty. I don't see the NFL significantly changing the seeding structure.