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The bye week is an incentive for the top teams to keep their players playing so they can secure one of the top two spots.
NFL playoffs could expand
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gldnone913
Integrity and Consistency
@ the potential of a team w/ a losing regular season record winning the super bowl
These. Top teams already pretty much take the last week of the season off as it is. If you take away the bye weeks and teams will be taking the last month off. I can see it now. The Pats get off to a 11-1 or 10-2 start and then Mallet starts the rest of the season until the playoffs arrive. And I really wouldn't be able to blame Belichek. Just a dumb idea. It's as if the people in charge either don't understand what makes the game the way it is or just don't care.
Baseball even with the new expansion has a lower percentage of teams in the playoffs. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's actually a good thing. Everybody shouldnt' make the playoffs. The playoffs should mean something and be special. You should have to earn your way in. Every squad that gets in should have a realistic shot at the title.
i dont like goodell but lets not act as if there werent talks of expanding the playoffs to 16 teams around this time 10 years ago.
it was gonna happen eventually. and im not mad. its not like the ncaa thinking about expanding the tournament to 96 teams or anything like that.
it was gonna happen eventually. and im not mad. its not like the ncaa thinking about expanding the tournament to 96 teams or anything like that.
BigE214
Future GOAT
worst commish in sports
i hate to see what the NFL is gonna look like in 5 years
22 on 22 flag football on 200 yard fields
You da only niggga in the world that remembers that
Actually it's worse. There would be no fundamental change to how NCAA teams do business with an expansion to 96 (although I
at that too). Teams would still be striving to win just like they are now. However if you put half the teams in the playoffs in the NFL the product is sure to suffer. Top teams in the NFL will start doing like top teams in the NBA have done and pretty much operate under a "fukk it we are in" mentality after they get to 10 wins. Beyond that you will have 8-8 and 7-9 teams in every year. You can't compare football to other sports because physical toll and health play so much more of a role than in any other sport.12 is perfect, with 4 teams getting bye weeks the games and start times make sense. If more teams make the playoffs, you have to be creative on start times because each game would have to be on in a certain time slot to appeal to their fan base. Imagine cramming 4 games into a saturday or a sunday. The times would have to be like
12PM
4PM
8PM
11PM(West coast if possible) to make it work. That's a nightmare
12PM
4PM
8PM
11PM(West coast if possible) to make it work. That's a nightmare
KritNC
All Star
So... I'm the only one who likes this?
I love the sport.. and other than making them play 18 games which I am not down with.. this is the best idea... It ain't like we don't want to see RGIII and the Bengals make it
I Kinda like that aspect of it but I think back to one of the main reasons I like the NFL and that is because every game feels like it means something due to only having abuot 33% of the field make the playoffs unlike basketball,hockey,baseball where games do not matter as much because nearly half the field makes the playoffs. I listened to NFL Exec, Bill Polian, talk about it and he made some good points about it actually making the league more competitive in the end of the year because teams will be battling it out for those last playoff spots. I still think we need to keep it as it is, I don't want to see the playoffs watered down and have a 7-9 team make a run in the playoffs
Edit:
Here is Bill talking about it
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8743130/nfl-discuss-expanding-playoff-field-roger-goodell-says
12 is perfect. I don't want any losing record wild card team in the playoff.
R.E.N. Spells Ren
Veteran
I Kinda like that aspect of it but I think back to one of the main reasons I like the NFL and that is because every game feels like it means something due to only having abuot 33% of the field make the playoffs unlike basketball,hockey,baseball where games do not matter as much because nearly half the field makes the playoffs. I listened to NFL Exec, Bill Polian, talk about it and he made some good points about it actually making the league more competitive in the end of the year because teams will be battling it out for those last playoff spots. I still think we need to keep it as it is, I don't want to see the playoffs watered down and have a 7-9 team make a run in the playoffs
Edit:
Here is Bill talking about it
NFL to discuss expanding playoff field, Roger Goodell says - ESPN
This is bullshyt
There'll be teams competing for the last playoff spots regardless of the number of playoff spots. All this changes is that it lowers the caliber of teams that'll be competing for those final spots.
KritNC
All Star
Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
I honestly, genuinely wish that Roger Goodell would fukking die.