More playoff teams in the future?

[Gryphon]

NFL | Chiefs president wants more playoff teams
KFFL reports:
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:10:55 -0800

Skip Wood and Jarrett Bell, of USA Today, report Kansas City Chiefs president Carl Peterson wants to propose expanding the amount of playoff teams from 12 to 14. As many as three teams could finish the 2005 season with a 10-6 record and miss the postseason. Peterson said, "I'm going to propose ... an expansion of the number of playoff teams. I think it shorts the fans, the franchises and the cities to have teams with successful seasons but still not qualify for the playoffs." Since the playoffs last expanded in 1990 to 12 teams, only three teams have finished with 10 wins and missed the postseason.

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THE GRYPHON

 

[dal0789]

Hopefully we arnt the 4th team to win 10 games and not make the playoffs ray2:

 

[superpunk]

Nah, leave it where it is. Take care of your business, and you get in. If we miss out, well then we have noone to blame but Billy Cundiff and Jose Cortez. The bastids. ;-)

 

[Yeagermeister]

Why so the SB can be played in March?

 

[Hoov]

Get rid off bye week and superbowl will not be pushed back at all.

Im for more teams in playoffs.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Get rid off bye week and superbowl will not be pushed back at all.

Im for more teams in playoffs.

The bye weeks are good leave them in and leave the playoffs alone.

 

[Hoov]

i hate the bye weeks. But even if one round added to playoffs only pushes the SB back from last w/e in Jan to first w/e in Feb. i really dont see what difference that makes.

And playoff football games are some of the best games. adding 2 more teams just makes it a little more intresting.

 

[percyhoward]

I don't see it happening.

Let's say you match up seeds 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, and 4 vs 5, while only the top seed gets the bye. That would give the 1 seed a big advantage over the 2 (with an extra week's rest) in a conference championship game.

Any other combination gives you an uneven number of teams, unless you allow 4 wild cards in each conference and eliminate the bye altogether.

 

[The30YardSlant]

I hope we dont go the route of the NBA, too many teams get in IMO.

 

[Hoov]

thats what i thought, 4 wc teams, 4division winners. But then when i looked at the breakdown i dont know how it would work with the top 2 teams getting byes, because then you have 2 teams resting and six playing which would result in 3 winners, so then there would be 5 teams. im sure their is a way to figure it out though.

 

[Doomsday101]

thats what i thought, 4 wc teams, 4division winners. But then when i looked at the breakdown i dont know how it would work with the top 2 teams getting byes, because then you have 2 teams resting and six playing which would result in 3 winners, so then there would be 5 teams. im sure their is a way to figure it out though.

there is a way, keep the playoffs as is. LOL

 

[CactusCowboy]

Please, no, we soon will be like the NHL, where everyone practically makes the playoffs.

 

[percyhoward]

thats what i thought, 4 wc teams, 4division winners. But then when i looked at the breakdown i dont know how it would work with the top 2 teams getting byes, because then you have 2 teams resting and six playing which would result in 3 winners, so then there would be 5 teams. im sure their is a way to figure it out though.

If you figure out a way to have 4 division winners and 4 wild cards without eliminating the bye, I bet the league would love to hear it.

And eliminating the bye would render the regular season almost meaningless.

The FAIR way would be to shorten preseason to two games, then have an 18-game regular season where every team plays every other team in the conference, and its divisional opponents twice. But what you gain with fairness, you lose in interconference matchups.

The current system is a pretty good one. Any team that finishes 10-6 is gonna have at least one game that they basically gave away.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

NFL | Chiefs president wants more playoff teams
KFFL reports:
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:10:55 -0800

Skip Wood and Jarrett Bell, of USA Today, report Kansas City Chiefs president Carl Peterson wants to propose expanding the amount of playoff teams from 12 to 14. As many as three teams could finish the 2005 season with a 10-6 record and miss the postseason. Peterson said, "I'm going to propose ... an expansion of the number of playoff teams. I think it shorts the fans, the franchises and the cities to have teams with successful seasons but still not qualify for the playoffs." Since the playoffs last expanded in 1990 to 12 teams, only three teams have finished with 10 wins and missed the postseason.

for more updates visit http://gryphononcowboys.blogspot.com/

THE GRYPHON

I like the way it works now.....my concern is the playoffs will become watered down..

 

[Boysathelm]

Gee, the president of a team who's on the verge of being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs wants MORE teams to be eligible for post-season games. Who didn't see this one coming?

Guys, I want the BEST teams to be in the playoffs. As it stands now, only 1/3 of the teams in the league can get into the playoffs. Increase it even more and it'll be 1/2. That isn't enough degree of separation to distinguish elite teams from the bad ones.

 

[burmafrd]

I frankly think there are too many NOW. Too many divisions. Only 4 to a division- that really is not enough. Should be 5 or 6. Actually have only 2 Divisions. Then have 2 WC's. No bye. that would prevent weak teams from weak divisions sneaking into the playoffs.

 

[AllLoyaltiesAside]

given the mediocrity of teams that have made it in the past, do we really want to adopt a system in which teams with LOSING records are apt to make it? (not this year, of course)

 

[AtlCB]

NFL | Chiefs president wants more playoff teams
KFFL reports:
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:10:55 -0800

Skip Wood and Jarrett Bell, of USA Today, report Kansas City Chiefs president Carl Peterson wants to propose expanding the amount of playoff teams from 12 to 14. As many as three teams could finish the 2005 season with a 10-6 record and miss the postseason. Peterson said, "I'm going to propose ... an expansion of the number of playoff teams. I think it shorts the fans, the franchises and the cities to have teams with successful seasons but still not qualify for the playoffs." Since the playoffs last expanded in 1990 to 12 teams, only three teams have finished with 10 wins and missed the postseason.

for more updates visit http://gryphononcowboys.blogspot.com/

THE GRYPHON

I think you should have a conditional 7th and 8th wild card teams in each conference. The condition is that the 7th and 8th team must be 10-6 or better. I even like the idea of making all of the wild card teams conditional on 10 wins. This would prevent teams with crappy records making the playoffs.

 

[FLcowboy]

Get rid off bye week and superbowl will not be pushed back at all.

Im for more teams in playoffs.

Eliminate the week off between the conference championship game and the Super Bowl. I think each conference could support 8 playoff teams. That eliminates the "wild card" team having to play a divisional winner. The first playoff game would match a divisional winner with a non-divisional winner team, based upon seeding the ranks. The second playoff game pits the winners of the previous game, again, the matchups are bsed upon seedings. The winners of that game are the conference champions, and go on to the Super Bowl.

 

[jimmy40]

I like the way it works now.....my concern is the playoffs will become watered down..

That's what people said 30 years ago but I'd say that wild card weekend is pretty damn good football.