NFL Wants To Re-Seed Playoffs

[BwareDWare94]

Don't think it's fair to say "you make it if you're (x-y record)" because then you could have a 10-6 team that misses that played a much tougher schedule than the 11-5 team hypothetically. You have to have a set number of teams. I wouldn't be opposed to adding a 7th team other than the fact that it's just a weird number of teams to have in the playoffs haha. Would eventually just become 16.

 
Eh. 10-6 teams miss the playoffs all the time. It's very rare to miss at 11-5, and let's face it, that's more more than twice as many wins as losses. I don't see what's wrong with the idea of adding that 7th time in the right--though very rare--circumstances. 

 

[CameronCrazy06]

The point is that you can't flex the number of playoff teams based on a record. You have to have a set number.
 
Not to mention the entire point of getting a 2-seed is to earn the first round bye, and now they don't get it because some other team finished with a good record? And in your format, it screws the 4-seed, division-winning Packers out of a home playoff game, yet the 49ers who didn't win their division get to play at home? You can't screw other teams like that just because you want the Cardinals in the playoffs.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

I believe it's confirmed that they are adding extra teams to playoffs in conferences.

 

[bosoxlover12]

Yeah. Dan Patrick says they will add a 7th team.


But it's literally just the 2 seed plays the 7 seed in Rd1; simple as that. 1-4 seeds are div winners

 

[BwareDWare94]

The point is that you can't flex the number of playoff teams based on a record. You have to have a set number.
 
Not to mention the entire point of getting a 2-seed is to earn the first round bye, and now they don't get it because some other team finished with a good record? And in your format, it screws the 4-seed, division-winning Packers out of a home playoff game, yet the 49ers who didn't win their division get to play at home? You can't screw other teams like that just because you want the Cardinals in the playoffs.

 
lololol so an 8-7-1 team gets the old quotation mark "screwed" over losing a home game they didn't earn in the first place? Give me a break. San Fran had more wins that either of the 3 or 4 seeds and played a tougher schedule. If they get one home game, who gives a rat's ass?
 
This isn't about the Cardinals, alone. This is about what's right, and my theory would have fixed both scenarios in which an 11-5 team got hosed in favor of lesser division winning teams. You do remember that I hate the Pats, right? That hatred doesn't take away from the fact that they got fucking boned the year they went 11-5 and missed.
 
Quick edit: There are actually three teams this would have happened to. The year the Pats missed, the fucking Bolts got in at 8-8, and when the 11-5 Broncos got boned in 1985, the Browns got in at 8-8.
 
Remember, the Cardinals knew they'd lost out during the second half of their game. They made it interesting, but I don't think they ever believed Tampa could go in and beat New Orleans. Even at 10-6, a 8-7-1 team got in ahead of them.
 
I hope the NFL just goes to a seed based on record format and doesn't expand the amount of teams. 

 

[bosoxlover12]

Does it matter? Yes I was upset that we missed the playoffs, but it's not like Matt Fucking Cassel was going to lead us to a Super Bowl. If you can't win your division, and aren't better than two other non division winners, you shouldn't make it. As many times as a 11-5 or 10-6 misses it, a 9-7 or 8-8 makes it.


Btw your 8-8 Cowboys won't ever win a playoff game in the next decade if you want happens. They won't beat a 13-3 team on the road, should they ever become that 7 seed because they can't win a division

 

[CameronCrazy06]

 
lololol so an 8-7-1 team gets the old quotation mark "screwed" over losing a home game they didn't earn in the first place? Give me a break. San Fran had more wins that either of the 3 or 4 seeds and played a tougher schedule. If they get one home game, who gives a rat's ass?
 
This isn't about the Cardinals, alone. This is about what's right, and my theory would have fixed both scenarios in which an 11-5 team got hosed in favor of lesser division winning teams. You do remember that I hate the Pats, right? That hatred doesn't take away from the fact that they got fucking boned the year they went 11-5 and missed.
 
Quick edit: There are actually three teams this would have happened to. The year the Pats missed, the fucking Bolts got in at 8-8, and when the 11-5 Broncos got boned in 1985, the Browns got in at 8-8.
 
Remember, the Cardinals knew they'd lost out during the second half of their game. They made it interesting, but I don't think they ever believed Tampa could go in and beat New Orleans. Even at 10-6, a 8-7-1 team got in ahead of them.
 
I hope the NFL just goes to a seed based on record format and doesn't expand the amount of teams. 

 
First of all, Green Bay is a better football team than their record shows; Rodgers missed how many games? But that's besides the point.
 
The main goal of every team in the regular season is to win your own division. The NFL has done a good job of making that important by rewarding those teams that do this with a home playoff game. You can't say a team that won their division didn't earn a home playoff game because they did everything they had to do to get it.