Roger Goodell has finally lost his mind now that he wants to expand the playoffs

[Biggems]

I would be cool with adding 1 more team per conference. 7 teams would allow only the top team to have a bye, which is how it should be. The other 6 play in the wild card round. Then the 3 winners advance to the divisional round to join the top seed.

6 wild card games would be outstanding, 12, 3:30, and 7 for the 3 games. Give the 2 seed in each conference a home prime time game vs the 7 seed.

Wild Card Round: 6 games
Divisional Round: 4 games
Championship Round: 2 games
Super Bowl: 1 game

[CowboysFanSince88]

Originally Posted by Cythim

Most teams in the NFL are big city teams. I flipped through the standings over the last 10 years and several teams are benefitting. I think what it does is allowing every franchise a chance to make the playoffs once every five years or so. Browns, Panthers, and Jags fans need to be kept engaged with a playoff birth every now and then.

And tnat's why I don't like it because it gives hopes to teams like the Browns, and Jags

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Originally Posted by CowboysFanSince88

Why should a team be in the playoffs if they don't deserve to be there?

Talk about a nonsequitor.

Deserve?

Deserve is relative to the rules that we play by. If you change the rules such that the 2^4 teams make the playoffs the those 16 teams deserve to be there.

[CowboysFanSince88]

Originally Posted by FuzzyLumpkins

Talk about a nonsequitor.

Deserve?

Deserve is relative to the rules that we play by. If you change the rules such that the 2^4 teams make the playoffs the those 16 teams deserve to be there.

Good, well make it 18 out of 32 in 2021

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Originally Posted by CowboysFanSince88

It seems like the purpose of this change is to make sure big city teams are in the playoffs and that bothers me.

Their goals seems to me to be to make money. There is no guarantee that it won't be the Bills that are the 15th place team. more games leads to more TV revenue which is the bread and butter of the NFL.

The only difference you will notice is that there will be two more games that first week of the playoffs.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Originally Posted by CowboysFanSince88

Good, well make it 18 out of 32 in 2021

Why? Bracketing in that just sounds like a pita. Most every tournament in the world includes powers of 2 ie 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64.

At least there is a logical explanation to going to that format. It's bloody mathematically symmetrical. 18 and 14 not so much.

[Cythim]

Originally Posted by CowboysFanSince88

And tnat's why I don't like it because it gives hopes to teams like the Browns, and Jags

When they pull out a 9-7 season against a stacked division why not send them to the playoffs?


it actually makes the regular season more meaningful because fewer teams will be eliminated before December. Instead of giving up hope at 7 or 8 losses fans will wait until 9 or 10 losses. There would be no more byes but seeding and home field advantage are still important so teams would not play soft once they clinch.