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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
If you think that is bad, what about the AFC and NFC West schedules? Against cream puff teams in their own division.
Arizona - Rams x2, Seahawks x2, 49ers x2
Denver/SD - Denver x2, San Diego x2, Raiders x2, KC x2.
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Well since all those teams stink it is all they can do to compete against each other. I'm not arguing about whether or not the NFL playoff format is fair or not. Of course it isn't going to be fair for every team every year.
The current four division format was set up to put a more balanced schedule in place and to allow every team to play each other every four years. In the old scheduling format teams would go decades without playing each other. Steelers and Raiders went something like 20 years without facing each other, which was sad since they had some great battles in the 1970's.
Its impossible in a 16 game schedule, in a 32 team league, for every team to play each other and have an identical schedule. The current system is an attempt to make things as fair as possible, under the circumstances, while still allowing all the teams to face each other at least once every four years.