Two words to explain why your argument is wrong: unbalanced schedules.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.
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.
Really? I didn't even realize that.We did lose cheerleader shots during the broadcast. We need more TA & drop the sideline reporters.
My idea is to have the weak div winner like the east this year have a playoff game with the good team that normally does not get a WC spot.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.
only time I notice a cheerleader is when one of the players run into them on the sideline....Really? I didn't even realize that.
That's just your opinion. It's not a compelling argument. Each division is given a playoff seed to compete for. There is nothing wrong with that system, no matter how those divisions finish. Then there are two wild card seeds awarded to the two best W-L records that did not win a division in each conference. Leave the system alone.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.
It just took the right person with a sharp mind to figure it out. KUDOS!Before a team with less wins hosts a playoff game, the commissioner and the replay booth need to investigate every play to see how many pass interference calls to reverse; the team with the most must them divide that total by the number of players who ever said that their team was a family, and multiplied by the number games in which their coaches wore non-matching outfits. Any even number hosts. In case of a tie (both even numbers), the team with the most cheerleaders gets to host. It's as easy as that.
The only way to eliminate such oddities is to have no divisions at all.
The top 6, or 8 if expanded get in. No more rival games just a rotational schedule each year to where you don't play a certain 4 teams that year. Do not play the same team twice either.
However...then their will be someone that whines...well the 7th and 8th NFC team is better than the 5th and 6th AFC team why aren't they in the playoffs....
It is set up this way for good reasons. Keep it the same.
All division winners make the playoffs and get to host games under the current NFL rules.9-7 or less teams should not host a playoff game
But then what do you do if a team is 9-7 division winner is in a tough as hell division from top to bottom, and a 10-6 wild card team is in a powder puff division? Or if the 9-7 division winner has one of the toughest schedules in the NFL and the 10-6 wild card has one of the easiest?
No matter the method of choosing home field advantage in the playoffs, there will always be variables that make things seem unfair, and those can change from year to year, and there is no set system that can cover for all variables. Accordingly, the NFL can only come up with a system and stick with it. Giving the division winners the home field advantage over the wild card teams seems like a reasonable way to go.