League will vote in March to expand the playoff field from 12 to 14 teams in 2015

[Lumps]

Money making watering down bullshit. I enjoy quality not quantity. Casual fans might enjoy more football but hardcore fans know this is BS.

If you want to re formulate playoff configurations to have the teams with the best records in, fine, but don't water it down by allowing more teams.

[Mol3m4n]

This is dumb. Just put all 32 tans in the playoffs. Smdh.

[PanthersClinic]

They could easily add two playoff teams. to each conference. The bye week for first place is not a sure thing and we're 0-2 after playoff byes recently. I'd rather play the first week and have a win to feel good about.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

It is all about the Benjamins.

These owners will eventually kill the game we love.

[CharlottePanther]

I'm for it, more often a team with a winning record misses out on the playoffs then teams with losing records making it. If you have a winning record, you deserve to be in the playoffs period. It's very hard to win in the nfl

[KillerKat]

Keep 12, but the 12 with the best records.

[cbarrier90]

It is all about the Benjamins.

These owners will eventually kill the game we love.

And like sheep, we will continue to watch.

[cbarrier90]

Keep 12, but the 12 with the best records.

You can't do that because of the schedule imbalance.

Teams that play the NFC South would have an unfair advantage over the teams that would play, say, the NFC West.

[BigBoss]

Sounds like a horrible idea.

[TN05]

This would eliminate any need for divisions besides preserving rivalries. The whole point of divisions is that you have 4 teams with nearly identical schedules. Therefore it is difficult to argue that the winner of a division isn't the best team.

 

What will happen is that you will have situations where a 9-7 teams gets the last playoff spot over an 8-8 team where they have almost no common games. With only 16 games it is much more difficult to see what teams are better. This type of thing really doesn't happen much in other sports.

 

So yeah I vote against it.

The only thing that would change there is seeding. The top two division champs would be guaranteed a home game, while the remaining six (two wild cards and two division champions) would be seeded on record. All division champions would still have an automatic bid.

[dugbug]

As long as the division system stands I'm ok with more games.

[Anybodyhome]

I think this will also lead to reseeding at some point, which means better records means hosting the games. Maybe not for the first round, but in subsequent rounds.

[pstall]

They should do like NASCAR and play the Super Bowl FIRST, then have the regular season then playoffs.

[MadHatter]

This would eliminate any need for divisions besides preserving rivalries. The whole point of divisions is that you have 4 teams with nearly identical schedules. Therefore it is difficult to argue that the winner of a division isn't the best team.

What will happen is that you will have situations where a 9-7 teams gets the last playoff spot over an 8-8 team where they have almost no common games. With only 16 games it is much more difficult to see what teams are better. This type of thing really doesn't happen much in other sports.

So yeah I vote against it.

Division champ would still get in regardless of record... It would just impact where trey were seeded.