9-7 or less teams should not host a playoff game

[Toruk_Makto]

Disagree. Division wins matter. Not all schedules are the same, and not all 9-7s are worse than 10-6s.

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[Silly]

It's bad enough they're proposing a 17 game season. Leave it alone! No more changes!

We did lose cheerleader shots during the broadcast. We need more TA & drop the sideline reporters.

 

[cern]

if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[CPanther95]

Nope. We good.

 

[OmerV]

if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Why not rewrite the rule every year so the league can manipulate the playoffs the way they see fit?

 

[BourbonBalz]

In 2010, the 7-9 Seahawks beat the 11-5 Saints in the playoffs. Obviously they belonged.

 

[cern]

Why not rewrite the rule every year so the league can manipulate the playoffs the way they see fit?

in some ways they already do. the dez rule. the non pass interference rule. the horse collar (roy Williams) rule, the don't touch the qb rule and so forth.

 

[Silly]

One of the things I enjoy about the NFL is cheering for the underdog. It just makes sports fun. I have no problem with a division winner @ 9/7 in the playoffs. The division race creates rivalry games. & they can stick their replay challenge every other play where the sun don't shine!
I vote to keep the NFL fun.

 

[mattjames2010]

Divisions are outdated and half the divisions in this league don't even make sense geographically.

 

[mattjames2010]

True, but they'll never change it. Drums up too much conservation.

If you don't like it, win your division. That's what the league will say to complainers. It's a good point.

Still doesn't make it right though.

It's not. I mean, look at the 49ers and Seahawks - both teams are better than wildcards. People keep talking about "underdogs" like they are the only ones that ever take up wildcard spots. That's really just not the case.

 

[Einstein]

Hate this idea as well as the fumble through the end zone not being a touchback. Winning the division means something, and if you want to keep the ball when you fumble into the end zone recover it yourself before it goes out.

 

[JayFord]

Any team below 10-6 who wins their division should be forced to play their game away

I wouldn’t take the playoffs away from them because the winning the division would be meaningless and rivalries would mean little

 

[CoachD]

The NFL should institute guidelines governing situations in which 9-7, 8-8 or 7-9 teams win their division, while teams with better records are often forced to settle for a wild card berth, or miss the playoffs altogether due to competing in stronger divisions.
There should be a requirement that any team should have to win 10 games in order to host a playoff game, and even then only be allowed to host teams with 11 wins or less.
Also, any team that wins 10 games in a season should automatically be in the playoffs. The NFL could add wild card games to accommodate such teams.
But it is unfair for a team like the Cowboys or the Eagles to potentially host a 12-13 win team that became a wildcard team because they played in a tougher division.

Ummmmmmm WRONG!! And here is why the Seahawks (who are a perfect example) won their division at 7-9 that's right 7-9 and played a really good Saints team at home in a wildcard game and guess what the Seahawks beat the living **** out of them!

 

[erod]

It's not. I mean, look at the 49ers and Seahawks - both teams are better than wildcards. People keep talking about "underdogs" like they are the only ones that ever take up wildcard spots. That's really just not the case.

It's impossible to compare schedules though from year to year. It ebbs and flows.

The system should remain because of that.

 

[leeblair]

Ummmmmmm WRONG!! And here is why the Seahawks (who are a perfect example) won their division at 7-9 that's right 7-9 and played a really good Saints team at home in a wildcard game and guess what the Seahawks beat the living **** out of them!

Yet the Saints had to play in Seattle, despite having a much more respectable season.
It was an unfair task for a team that had played at a higher level than the Seahawks, yet the Seahawks were rewarded for their poor record with a home game.
That's just wrong.

 

[Rockport]

The NFL should institute guidelines governing situations in which 9-7, 8-8 or 7-9 teams win their division, while teams with better records are often forced to settle for a wild card berth, or miss the playoffs altogether due to competing in stronger divisions.
There should be a requirement that any team should have to win 10 games in order to host a playoff game, and even then only be allowed to host teams with 11 wins or less.
Also, any team that wins 10 games in a season should automatically be in the playoffs. The NFL could add wild card games to accommodate such teams.
But it is unfair for a team like the Cowboys or the Eagles to potentially host a 12-13 win team that became a wildcard team because they played in a tougher division.

BS. Total BS.

 

[mattjames2010]

It's impossible to compare schedules though from year to year. It ebbs and flows.

The system should remain because of that.

The system is outdated, it was initially implemented as an NFL/AFL rivalry. This hasn't been part of football for years. And as I said, the divisions themselves don't even really make sense geographically and are only the way they are due to rivalries and the NFL being afraid of moving away from them.

The ultimate goal should be putting together a system that gets the two best teams to face each other at the end of the season. Many teams have also benefited from absolute cakewalk divisions.

 

[DFWJC]

I don't think you can randomly apply a record like that.

However, I do think its way more fair to let Wildcard teams with better records host over Division champs with lessor records.
Doubly rewarding mediocrity is terrible, imo.
Plus, it makes week 17 games meaningless sometimes (often) for division winners that aren't fighting for home field advantage.

Let all division winners make the playoffs, but that is it.
Seed all playoff teams by record but with no bye weeks for wildcards.

I'd be ticked if Dallas was 13-3 or 12-4 and had to play a road playoff game at some 8-8 team's place.

 

[OmerV]

Any team below 10-6 who wins their division should be forced to play their game away

I wouldn’t take the playoffs away from them because the winning the division would be meaningless and rivalries would mean little

You can't make this a blanket rule. What if the wild card teams are also less than 10-6? There is no system that accounts for all variables.

 

[Skillit]

I believe they’re it’s for 9 win playoff teams is actually pretty decent compared to the overall win % of wildcard teams.

it’s fine.

In recent history- the Giants and the packers won a SB on a 9 win season.