Why not realign NFC east/south

[CitySlicker202]

Originally Posted by HowAboutThemCowboys

NFCE didn't deserve anyone in the playoffs this year. Hardly considered loaded with strong teams

To say the NFCE this year wasn't top dollar strong is one thing. But to discredit the Skins by saying no team from the division deserved a playoff berth is just homerism talking. So the NFCE is only strong when the Giants, Eagles or Cowboys win the division? LoL

[Coy]

Originally Posted by HowAboutThemCowboys

NFCE didn't deserve anyone in the playoffs this year. Hardly considered loaded with strong teams

I hate the Skins but they do deserve to be in the playoffs, they won 7 in a row to get in, if that is not deserving then I don't know what is.

[Vanilla2]

Originally Posted by CitySlicker202

To say the NFCE this year wasn't top dollar strong is one thing. But to discredit the Skins by saying no team from the division deserved a playoff berth is just homerism talking. So the NFCE is only strong when the Giants, Eagles or Cowboys win the division? LoL

Exactly what he's saying and I concur.

[ghst187]

Originally Posted by mgcowboy

Dallas should move to NFC South and Panthers should go to NFC East.

NFC east is too crowded of strong teams where almost every year you get 3 strong teams in the division and only 2 (sometimes 1) gets to go through to the playoffs....They kill each other and hurt their own chances by playing each others twice a year

Even geographically it makes sense....

when they had the last big realignment this came up. We were stupid to stay in the East. We could've easily gotten into a division with St Louis, Arizona, and either San Fran or New Orleans. Now, a division like that looks like it would be fairly tough but year in and year out there would've been a lot of years it wouldn't take much to win it. Just think about San Fran all through the 80s and 90s. They played in the worst division in the NFL for two decades and although they had good teams, they were that much harder to beat with homefield advantage EVERY year in the playoffs because they beat the Rams 12x per year. Meanwhile, even in the early 90s we were beating the previous SB winners...NYG and Wash then an always tough Philthy team just to make the playoffs. Meanwhile, San Fran was thumping away on the listless Rams...again.

[Vanilla2]

Why wouldn't you wanna be in the east?

Bunch of softies this team has for fans.

Maybe they should mandate everyone sits in the men's room at Cowboy stadium too.

[IAMKING]

If we're trying to make it easy lets just switch with the Niners

[GMen86]

Originally Posted by ghst187

when they had the last big realignment this came up. We were stupid to stay in the East. We could've easily gotten into a division with St Louis, Arizona, and either San Fran or New Orleans. Now, a division like that looks like it would be fairly tough but year in and year out there would've been a lot of years it wouldn't take much to win it. Just think about San Fran all through the 80s and 90s. They played in the worst division in the NFL for two decades and although they had good teams, they were that much harder to beat with homefield advantage EVERY year in the playoffs because they beat the Rams 12x per year. Meanwhile, even in the early 90s we were beating the previous SB winners...NYG and Wash then an always tough Philthy team just to make the playoffs. Meanwhile, San Fran was thumping away on the listless Rams...again.

I'd much rather see the Cowboys stay and the NFC East remain intact than face the Panthers twice a year. Even if the Panther matchups were 2 guaranteed wins a season.

Keep the division and the rivalries intact and keep the competition stiff. If it means a painful loss now and then to a divisional rival it keeps the regular season more exciting.

I hate when the Giants lose but I would much rather have meaningful games for 16 weeks than a cake walk into the playoffs only to get blown out by a battle tested team.

[Aikbach]

Does the OP not realize good teams come and go and the present circumstances are not everlasting, that the teams in the respective divisions will neither be good or bad indefinitely?

[crazytown41]

Joke thread??

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by CitySlicker202

So the NFCE is only strong when the Giants, Eagles or Cowboys win the division? LoL

[WPBCowboysFan]

Originally Posted by DuceizBak

You're an idiot.

Originally Posted by hornitosmonster

Got to love these young noobs. They know nothing of the strength of the NFC East and what the current division lineup means to the NFL in terms of ratings and money.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by mgcowboy

Dallas should move to NFC South and Panthers should go to NFC East.

NFC east is too crowded of strong teams where almost every year you get 3 strong teams in the division and only 2 (sometimes 1) gets to go through to the playoffs....They kill each other and hurt their own chances by playing each others twice a year

Even geographically it makes sense....

Good grief you dont switch divisions to try and align with softer teams.

Our big rivals are the Giants, Redskins and Eagles and I want them twice a year forever. You dont run and hide your way into the playoffs.

Tex

[rocyaice]

Yea because the NFL HATES the high ratings it gets when the NFC East play each other lol. It doesn't matter what the records are. NFC EAST ALWAYS draws ratings.

[StylisticS]

No disrespect to the saints, falcons, and buccaneers. But they do nothing for me. I love that the Cowboys are in the east and play the giants, eagles, and skins.

[mgcowboy]

Originally Posted by ghst187

when they had the last big realignment this came up. We were stupid to stay in the East. We could've easily gotten into a division with St Louis, Arizona, and either San Fran or New Orleans. Now, a division like that looks like it would be fairly tough but year in and year out there would've been a lot of years it wouldn't take much to win it. Just think about San Fran all through the 80s and 90s. They played in the worst division in the NFL for two decades and although they had good teams, they were that much harder to beat with homefield advantage EVERY year in the playoffs because they beat the Rams 12x per year. Meanwhile, even in the early 90s we were beating the previous SB winners...NYG and Wash then an always tough Philthy team just to make the playoffs. Meanwhile, San Fran was thumping away on the listless Rams...again.

That's the point behind my question when I started the thread....

A team like New England brags about being in the playoffs 10 of last 11? But everybody forgets that they almost every one of those tears are guaranteed 5-6 wins out of their poor division..Same goes for Colts during Manning years...Anyone had a look at NFC west winners the last decade? tell me that was not a joke of a division....
The hardest division to win over the years of all 8 divisions is the NFC east...
Last year the Giants won the SB....guess who swept the season series against them? the division door mat, 5-11, last place washington redskins...

If you ask me the WHOLE NFL division setup needs to be scrapped...it's old, it's boring..it's predictably silly...

NFL should conduct a draw in May of every year to decide the 8 divisions...
based on previous season, all 32 teams are divided into 4 pools based on records
pool 1: top 8 records (not division winners..the best 8 records)
pool 2: next best 8 records (9-16)
pool 3: the next best 8 records (17-24)
and pool 4: worst 8 records (25-32)

Now you can have divisions 1 through 8...Odd division numbers are the AFC (or whatever you want to call it) and the Even division numbers are the NFC..this is to allow the NFL to continue the current setup of assigning matches vs other NFC divisions and AFC divisions...(Like us playing NFC north next year and AFC west)


You draw the first 8 from the first pool, then the 2nd, and so forth..The draw would be televised live..that would be some show I bet... Now tell me NFL wouldn't love the TV rating coming out of the draw alone let alone the juicy matchups such draw would introduce...

With the ease of travel and communication there shouldn't be any problem with teams traveling east coast to west coast ..They already do and I don't think there would be significantly more travel....

It's not a final thought but imagine the excitement every off season of teams anticipating their division....the joy of having better shot to play different teams every year instead of getting stuck with 6 games against the same 3 teams every year...

But the current setup honestly is unfair, and old and needs to be revamped...

Don't tell me rivalries please..because I don't think there is such a thing except when the surrounding circumstances force one...Like the Colts/Pats rivalry...all coming out of Brady/Manning ... and it now moved to Pats/Broncos rivalry since Manning moved on...

Once salary cap and free agency started rivalries were declared dead in my opinion...one player you see play for the Cowboys this year..next year you see him play for the eagles..are you kidding me? in the old days you don;t even think of saying one good thing about the eagles let alone joining them....