Gallntfox Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 At least some changes to the format have been for the better....the '72 Dolphins that went 17-0 played the AFC Championship game ON THE ROAD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Keep it how it is. Life isn't fair. Live with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blugene Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 If you keep it the way it is now, more teams are still mathematically in the playoff hunt a lot longer. It keeps us in suspense longer. If changed, we could just be going through motions for the last few weeks of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbynice Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Man I just wish that people would stop complaining. I would support this only if the idea of conferences were eliminated, which I do not see happening. Without that AFC versus the NFC you could make it a seeded thing, but while having conferences you have to be the best in your conference. Period. There will come a time when the NFC will not be the weaker conference and this argument will emerge again. In the meantime, just shut up and win. You know the format. It has been the same for quite a while now. Win or go home. Period. Sheesh! No more no less...Anything more will be uncivilized.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 What hasn't been mentioned if the worthy teams from both conferences were seeded and thrown into a tournament: the possibility of a Redskins-Cowboys Super Bowl. Wouldn't that be cool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roanoker Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 When the dust settles and the smoke clears, the best in each conference end up playing one another in the superbowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildbill1952 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Because you asked: I'm against the change. The argument that interest would be heightened by teams with better records and not division winners means that some teams would know by game 8 that hope of the post-season was over for them. Now you have fans of several teams stll intrested in the weekly contests because they have not been mathematically eliminated. So I guess the decision -making process would also include the question of which interest is better to generate: the weekly interest in a number of comparatively mediocre teams, or the post-season interest. I would say that post-season already has sufficient interest and the owners would opt for keeping the fan interest in the regular season high. Although the post about a Skins-Cowboys Super Bowl certainly made me think, the way the league is run, they'd make the Skins play the Super Bowl on two days rest after the 'Boys played some Wednesday afternoon contest 10 days prior after a bye week. I still remember the 49ers playing the 'powerhouse' teams of Atlanta, New Orleans, and the LA Rams (memories go way back) who together only had 15 wins for a season, and the 49ers would claim their greatness because their record reflected 6 games a year where they could start the cheerleders and win by 20. During that same stretch the Skins played the Giants and the 'Boys, who had 3 or 4 superbowls at the time. You'll have divisions like what San Fran had. I still think the current system is better than what's proposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAFGA Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I wish these people would quit whining. They're scared the Jets won't get in with a 10-6 or 9-7 record while an 8-8 team possibly will get in from the NFC. The NY bias is thick in that article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKiNz Jus 2 sick Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 the only problem i have with the playoff format isnt even a huge one but there is just one flaw and thats if a team wins the Division they are automatically in i think that no team with worse then a 7-9 record should be in the playoffs AT ALL so if u win the Division at 6-10 god i hope this dosnt happen anytime soon but you shouldnt make the playoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAFGA Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 the only problem i have with the playoff format isnt even a huge one but there is just one flaw and thats if a team wins the Division they are automatically ini think that no team with worse then a 7-9 record should be in the playoffs AT ALL so if u win the Division at 6-10 god i hope this dosnt happen anytime soon but you shouldnt make the playoffs They won't change it unless it happens. Believe me, if it did happen they would change it. The outcry would be tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReefa Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I like Easterbrook, but this is a dopey arguement. The fact is, every team plays a different schedule than pretty much every other team. The only teams with comparable schedules play in the same division as the other teams. Therefore, the only way you can look at two team's records and determine which team is the "best" is by looking at your division. If 11-5 Jacksonville wanted to host a plyoff game last year, they should have won their division. As it is, they went into New England and got exposed for what they were - a good (not great) team that got by on an easier schedule. There is no way you caould look at NE's schedule last year and look at JAX's and say they faced equivalent slates. This isn't like college football, where a team can run a ridiculous record up and get shut-out of the championship picture because they didn't play in the right division (like Boise State). Every team gets the opportunity to win the championship, and if they don't, they have only themselves to blame. Any team that gets left out of the playoffs could have gotten in by simply winning their division. Honestly, I'd just as soon they got rid of wildcards altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tastes Like Chicken Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I like the system the way it is currently. The rivalries are great in the division level. What if we got rid of divisions, and schedules were completely random 16 games? What would that do to rivalries? That would suck. Similar argument can be made for conferences. Remember the historic playoff battles in the 80s and 90s? Redskins-Cowboys, Redskins-49ers, Redskins-Bears, 49ers-Cowboys in the NFC? Who wouldn't like to see Patriots-Colts, Steelers-Colts, etc in the playoffs this year? The NFL is cyclical, and someday the NFC will be the 'powerhouse' again and the AFC will slip. I also think that you lose some of the history and meaning behind the Super Bowl if you eliminate the conferences. You lose the history of the NFL-AFL rivalry, and that would be a shame. I'm not interested in the possibility of a Panthers-Bucs Super Bowl either, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyf316 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 There's nothing wrong with the format. Leave it alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 the only problem i have with the playoff format isnt even a huge one but there is just one flaw and thats if a team wins the Division they are automatically ini think that no team with worse then a 7-9 record should be in the playoffs AT ALL so if u win the Division at 6-10 god i hope this dosnt happen anytime soon but you shouldnt make the playoffs I disagree. Whatever record is good enough to win your division should be good enough to get you in the playoffs. You might play in the best division and lose 4 division games...does that really mean a team that coasts in a bad division deserves to supplant you as a playoff team? The problem with making rules based on number of wins or records is that it's too superficial. You can't actually use logic to determine why a team is 8-8... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor 36 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 The NFL at this point doesn't have to worry about people turning away from the playoffs. This is the most lucrative sports league, and people are going to watch the playoffs and the Super Bowl no matter what. There is no need for a change, and I really don't believe the actual league would consider one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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