Does the NFL need to reformat its playoff system
- Thread starter Combat Carl
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Just to be clear I have seen you post quite frequently and tend to agree with you on most sports topics.
Nonetheless...your suggestion completely undermines the purpose of division play. Not to mention that it fails to adequately address the other potential issue in which there are 9 of the best 12 records are in one conference, but still only 6 of them get in.
Divsion play is more about scheduling than anything. Their is no value in having the best record in a random grouping of four beyond that which is artificially given to it. I wouldnt mind top 12 overall either. I care more about rewarding excellence than tradition or giving meaning to random groupings
so then don't EVER have any team meeting each other twice, and if that means not seeing a rival of yours, so be it. That cool too?
Y'all want divisions without the ultimate division incentive
See above. I dont want divisions. They are cool for scheduling but if we are gonna place arbitrary groupings over winning and losing then I have a problem.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
If you can't succeed in an arbitrary group of 4, you're not gonna fare much better in a group of 32.
Success is relative though. All it takes in some groups is 7-9 wins while others require 11-13. I think the people in the latter grouping should fare better. They at least deserve the chance to prove it either way.
How many times has a 7-9 team hosted a playoff game? I can only remember it happening once (Seattle vs New Orleans). Why the fukk would the NFL re-structure their entire playoff format over something that virtually never happens?
Combat Carl
Yeah n!gga
Because its not fair fakkit
Because its not fair fakkit
I just checked. The 2010 Seahawks are literally the only sub-.500 team to ever make the playoffs, let alone host a playoff game. But yeah, I'm sure the NFL will get right on re-structuring its format.
Last season, both the 49ers (12-4) and Saints (11-5) had better records than the NFC North Division champion Packers (8-7-1) and NFC East Division champion Eagles (10-6) and had to travel on the road to face them. 
Both should've done more to win their respective divisions to host a home playoff game (and this is coming from a Saints fan).
Both should've done more to win their respective divisions to host a home playoff game (and this is coming from a Saints fan).
Rottweiler
All Star
NO
they wont host a game, that was changed after last years sf/gb fiascoThe fact that a possible 7-9 team at best from the NFC South will not only make it but host a home playoff game is
While either Dallas, Seattle, GB, or Detroit will miss the offs because of this bullshyt
sf had the toughest first half schedule and now the hawks have the toughest schedule down the stretchThey way its looking. It will be SF, Seatle, Greenbay, Dallas, Detroit fighting for the last two spots. Crazy to think some of those teams won't get in but it is what it is. I think SF won't make it and Dallas falls off too
Edit- didn't realize seatle schedule so toughtwo frisco games, two cardinals games, Eagles and the Chiefs
its gonna be amazing stretch run
So something needs to happen all the time in order to take measures to prevent it?
It doesn't make sense, it's not fair, and it's very easily fixable but let's just leave it how it is because it doesn't happen often
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We've had numerous 8-8 teams or teams with inferior records hosting playoff games. Having anything like that happen once is too much.Last season, both the 49ers (12-4) and Saints (11-5) had better records than the NFC North Division champion Packers (8-7-1) and NFC East Division champion Eagles (10-6) and had to travel on the road to face them.
They both did more than the teams that they had to go on the road to face though.
at people treating .500 teams as if they have somehow done more than 10 and 11 win teams.They both did more than the teams that they had to go on the road to face though.
As much as it hurts me to say, the Saints deserved to drop to the #6 seed for fukking up and blowing their chances at the NFC South crown to the Panthers.
your division is trash though so its easy for you to say that..
if the divisions were stacked evenly then you would have an argument.
but they arent, they are horribly balanced
Arizona Cardinals deserved to make the play offs over every single team in your division last year
As much as it hurts me to say, the Saints deserved to drop to the #6 seed for fukking up and blowing their chances at the NFC South crown to the Panthers.
More than the Eagles who...uh...you know...had fewer wins than them?
So basically you are okay with teams being punished for being in good divisions or rewarded for being in bad divisions? The line of thinking you expressed only makes sense if all divisions are equal and that is not the case.
