Seriously, I hate every single aspect of this.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/will-two-bye-weeks-return-for-nflTwo bye weeks has been tried and everybody hated it, which is why they got rid of it.
Says you. And that's okay.Less regular season and more postseason, with every team making the postseason, that's the opposite of where things should go.
Would point out that everything gets "top tier" after that first weekend, and that even in that first weekend, the games pitting the middle 8 teams ordinarily will be competitive... and... that the top 4-ish teams have earned some warm-up games as they launch their post season.And worst of all, imagine that first postseason week, with exactly zero top-tier matchups: all the best teams romp against the worst teams. It's hard to imagine a less entertaining week of football than that.
Cinderella stories in post seasons often attract interest rather than tamp it down. Yes, like March Madness.And let's say the Panthers somehow win. Then, whoo-hoo, we get to watch a 2-14 team play in the second round of the playoffs, what fun!
Yes, it is comparable to March Madness... just on the merits of what I just said. But let's grant your argument that only conference champs of certain conferences and other at-large teams selected by a committee will qualify... that's all valid to point out... but what that glosses over is consideration of the delta between the worst NCAA tournament participant and the best is exponentially wide... compare that to the delta between the worst NFC team and the best... and there is no serious comparison.(And no, it's not comparable to the first day of March Madness, because even there, only 64(ish) teams qualify out of 300+. Here, we'd have the absolute best playing the absolute worst.
Look closer. (But only if you care to... doesn't appear you probably do.) That's all I've got for ya at this stage.expanding an already too long regular season
Look closer. (But only if you care to... doesn't appear you probably do.) That's all I've got for ya at this stage.
Good on you... at least you seem to have maybe reviewed what was said versus what you evidently presumed had been said.Look closer they want an 18 game regular season .
This plan pushes the SB from a one-day-and-done event on the second Sunday in February to a third Sunday in February, and a fourth Sunday if necessary.Maybe the SB can play in March .
Is your goal here to make the season better for the fans or to figure out a way that the owners could make more money? Maybe I misunderstood. I don't think your system does either, but the evaluation would be different depending on your objectives.Appreciate that you or anyone else would take time to study it. It did take some thought, maybe obviously.
But my take is probably one that's more likely held among the NFL capitalists, since post season is what routinely generates a lions share of profits... and too, important to note that we're not talking huge jumps here, either way... but nonetheless, significant ones by virtue of how it's set-up.
There is precedent for every team making a post season in the fact that most college conferences include all of their teams. And again, the capitalists are going to prefer a season ending game that always has playoff consequences over the potential of season ending games that do not necessarily.
But who cares about those middle-mush games except fans of those teams? The 8-9 game is between teams that wouldn' t even make the playoffs today. And those top 4-ish games against the losingest teams have no appeal to anybody, and waste an opportunity to showcase good teams in exciting matchups. That's the appeal in the regular season: every week, there are a bunch of blah matchups, but there are also a few exciting marquee matchups. Your system is specifically designed to give us the least interesting possible matchups in the first week of the postseason.Would point out that everything gets "top tier" after that first weekend, and that even in that first weekend, the games pitting the middle 8 teams ordinarily will be competitive... and... that the top 4-ish teams have earned some warm-up games as they launch their post season.
Yes, but the Cinderellas in March Madness were at least teams that actually had winning records in the regular season. Princeton was 23-7. The Texans were 3-13-1. If you can't understand why that matters and how having a team like Houston playing in the later rounds of the playoffs would be bad, I don't know how to explain it to you.Cinderella stories in post seasons often attract interest rather than tamp it down. Yes, like March Madness.id another way... a more objective way... oddsmakers considered the 2023 Houston Texans to be at the +20,000 line for winning a Super Bowl... whereas the Princeton Tigers were looking at a 100,000 line, ie, 5x less likely to emerge as champs
Hmm. I was only responding to what you wrote. It seemed to emphasize what it emphasized, which was not revenue, but number of games.You don’t need to tell me it’s “ revenue driven “ friend .
It is? I must not be reading closely enough. I'd not seen that point raised, but perhaps that's my fault.My point is the NFL is a weekly physical battle with injury on top of injury
I would argue that if I'm an owner, I only make money to the degree that I make things better for fans... and that that's not a short-term assessment, but a long-term. It is true that there is the potential for overkill... asking too much of the golden goose.Is your goal here to make the season better for the fans or to figure out a way that the owners could make more money?
Why change something that’s working so well?
Completely reasonable question.Why change something that’s working so well?
It is specifically designed for what it is specifically designed for, as stated in the OP.specifically designed to give us the least interesting possible matchups in the first week of the postseason.
Just because you say it’s designed for something doesn’t make it so. It’s designed to give the worst possible matchups, and it’s designed such that 5-10 or 6-9 teams will inevitably show up in the final four, negating your concept of the “very best four teams” and turning the league into a laughing stock. I also like how you ignore the most important points I made.It is specifically designed for what it is specifically designed for, as stated in the OP.
If the worst weakness of the format is that you wait until the second weekend of post season for these most salient matchups you so love in the current Wild Card weekend, then okay.
Oh well. Trade-offs, my friend.
In exchange for that, the pay off is that no team has to endure 1-3 pointless home games every season as a consequence of being eliminated from playoffs... that on its own is a win, from where I sit. But forget that. The big pay off is that the very best four teams that the NFL has to offer participate in a grand finale... effectively a double-elimination tournament over the course of 4 weekends. That's a huge win. Fan interest off the charts. Revenues off the charts.