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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Ok, but that doesn't exactly jive with what you were saying earlier.
And therefore deny Buffalo and Cinci a chance to play for the bye. Very unfair if you ask me.
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Until you eliminate divisions division winners should be rewarded, even if it's a crappy division. It still is winning something. Wild card teams won nothing. Crappy division winners just don't deserve the advantage of a home game. Which helps, obviously, since we've seen two of the last three sub .500 division winners actually win a playoff game. But adding the #7 seed hasn't done anything, only the Colts stayed within two TDs in their loss. Every other game has been a boring, one sided game, and sneaking in Trubisky, Ben's corpse and an Eagles team last year who couldn't pass the ball made for dreadful games.
If you choose to placate Buffalo and Cincinnati by totally changing the schedule for weeks to have them play, more teams than them will be facing unfair situations. Again, no perfect situation here. If it's not voiding the game then flip a coin, that is currently a real NFL tiebreaker, so go with that. It was probably a 50/50 game anyway, although with the knowledge of the first 10 minutes it was maybe a 60/40 Bengals game. But every scenario leaves someone screwed. Voiding screws the fewest people.
Six teams per conference was perfect. The NFL did not need to deviate from that. But gambling, TV deals, bigger salary caps and player money etc...Was always gonna happen. It's gonna be terrible when they go to eight, and eventually 10. But money wins, always. So we'll have to deal with an even more watered down playoffs. But lets wait as long as possible.