Two more playoff teams, your thoughts?

[HaroldSeattle]

It's just fine now. You heard of the saying "If it's not broke don't fix it?"

 

[Wolvie]

Not only would this "new" system lessen the importance of the regular season, but it also buts that #1 seed on an even higher pedestal. Everyone else but them have to duke it out in another game against a pretty good opponent only to get more beat up while that #1 is getting more rested and healthy and diagnosing the other playoff team's schemes

 

[Jim Rome is Flaming]

I personally think the playoffs would benefit from the removal of both wild card teams. If I'm not mistaken, the purpose of the playoffs is to find the best team in the NFL. And I don't see how a team who isn't good enough to win their 4-team division can even be considered as the top team in the NFL. Yeah, I get the wild cards have been successful recently, that still doesn't make them the better team.

 

[Wolvie]

I personally think the playoffs would benefit from the removal of both wild card teams. If I'm not mistaken, the purpose of the playoffs is to find the best team in the NFL. And I don't see how a team who isn't good enough to win their 4-team division can even be considered as the top team in the NFL. Yeah, I get the wild cards have been successful recently, that still doesn't make them the better team.

Then you could potentially have a 14 win team not make the playoffs just because the team ahead of them happened to go undefeated. How shitty would that be to have the second best team in the league not even make the playoffs

 

[BritishDolfan]

14 out of 32 is "everyone"?

It's nearly half. IIRC there was a theory that the ideal amount of playoff teams is about a third of the league.

 

[lhagen931]

I think there should be 16 teams 8 AFC, 8 NFC.

 

[BritishDolfan]

I think there should be 16 teams 8 AFC, 8 NFC.

Maybe if they expanded to 40 teams. Half the league in the playoffs is way too many imho.

 

[phantomfoul88]

Just leave it alone. We don't need to turn the NFL into the NBA or NHL. Half the league makes the playoffs and that's a joke.

 

[boltfan72]

I personally think the playoffs would benefit from the removal of both wild card teams. If I'm not mistaken, the purpose of the playoffs is to find the best team in the NFL. And I don't see how a team who isn't good enough to win their 4-team division can even be considered as the top team in the NFL. Yeah, I get the wild cards have been successful recently, that still doesn't make them the better team.

Because there are years when there are two dominant teams in one division. And there's still motivation to win the division, since you're guaranteed at least one home game.

 

[boltfan72]

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