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Goodell suggests extra draft picks

Jangler

By Jangler,
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Well I guess when fans pay full price for a regular season game and only watch backups play then I guess it wouldnt be bad motivation. I think Goodell should fine teams that rest players it just makes the end of the season so lame for winning tea,s

I disagree why risk your starter hurt for draft picks and screwup your playoffs (see Patriots).

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Brooklyn Bully Newbie

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While you can't make a coach play starters when you have a Playoff spot locked up (even if you reward them), it IS unfair to other teams who have a shot at the Playoffs when said "sitting" team lays down. As seen tonight when the Bengals let the Jets rape them, as seen by the Colts the past two weeks, etc. And as a fan, we'd like to see the starters but our gripe is of little concern.

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I disagree why risk your starter hurt for draft picks and screwup your playoffs (see Patriots).

I agree the patriots showed that today. The thing I disagree is with the fans paying full price for a game where the starters sit and its usually a win for the other team that can sometimes mess up playoff hopes for teams.

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While you can't make a coach play starters when you have a Playoff spot locked up (even if you reward them), it IS unfair to other teams who have a shot at the Playoffs when said "sitting" team lays down. As seen tonight when the Bengals let the Jets rape them, as seen by the Colts the past two weeks, etc. And as a fan, we'd like to see the starters but our gripe is of little concern.

If those other teams took care of their own business, they wouldn't need the extra help.

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If those other teams took care of their own business, they wouldn't need the extra help.

Logical...until you come across a team that DID take care of its business...along with 3-4 others that did, and which get in ALL depends on other games...then it'd be nice if Week 17 was played evenly all the way around.

But it'll never happen.

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Here's our proposal: Augment the current playoff qualification system with seeding assignments made by a neutral committee, similar to the approach the NCAA employs when selecting teams for the men's and women's basketball tournaments.

The six playoff teams would be determined as they currently are. But then the committee would seed the six teams in each conference based on their play during a specific period, such as the final four games of the regular season. So if a team like the Saints, which started 13-0, falls apart down the stretch, they'd be at the mercy of the committee when it comes to getting home-field advantage. And if a team like the Colts chooses to rest starters for the postseason, they'd risk losing the top seed to the Chargers, who finished with 11 straight wins.

And while we're venturing outside the box, let's go ahead and frolic in the poppies. How about getting rid of playoff byes and adding two teams to the playoff field per conference, and how about letting them be true wild-card teams, added based not on total won-loss record but on how they're performing late in the year?

For 2009, for example, we'd make the Texans and the Browns (yes, the Browns) the seventh and eighth seeds in the AFC playoff field, and we'd invite the Panthers and the 49ers (or maybe the Falcons) to join the NFC party.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/04/week-17-morning-aftermath-a-proposed-solution-to-the-late-season-dilemma/

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I don't see any problems with team resting their starters late in the season. Teams wouldn't have so many wins if other NFL teams weren't playing like poo all season long, so why should they be punished for taking off 2 or 3 games.

The Colts and Bengals laying down can't be worse than the Panthers performances against the Jets, Bills, Eagles, etc.

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