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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I like how it is. Winning your division should be your main goal every year. Regardless of how crappy it is.
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Agreed winning your division should be an automatic playoff berth (otherwise what's the point of even having divisions?). I'd like to see them go the NBA route however, where winning your division punches your ticket to the playoffs, but NOT an automatic home game. Seems fairer to me anyway.
Also, if the concern about unbalanced divisions is still there, perhaps it's time to go back to the old, larger divisions again. Given what the NHL's division size looks like now, I don't see anything wrong with 5-6 team divisions in the NFL. The only drawback would be that 2 divisions would have 6 teams while the rest have 5, but I don't think it's that big of an issue.
EDIT: Given how the NFL has the most teams out of all the major N.A. sports leagues, it seems rather silly to me that they only have 4 team divisions. With numbers like that, is it any wonder that seemingly every year there's a junk division - like the NFC South this year - and a logjam division like the AFC North right now? Expanding the divisions like the NHL did would help reduce this. It resulted in mercifully murdering the forever bad Southeast Division.