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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by Rate This » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:33 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:16 pm
Joe Lombardi was OC for the Chargers?

That explains a lot! 😁

I think the NFL should go from eight divisions to four. Play each team in your own division once annually as opposed to twice. Such a change would help prevent mediocre teams from winning divisions (*cough* Tampa Bay *cough*).
Maybe but if the entire group is terrible you are at square one again.



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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by bmw » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:36 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:16 pm
I think the NFL should go from eight divisions to four. Play each team in your own division once annually as opposed to twice. Such a change would help prevent mediocre teams from winning divisions (*cough* Tampa Bay *cough*).
I used to think that, but now that they've added an additional wild card, I think this is no longer necessary.

The one change I would support is that in a wild card vs. division winner matchup, home field goes not to the team with the better seed, but rather with the better record (seed being the tiebreaker if both teams have the same record). So I would leave seedings and matchups alone, but like in the case of the Dallas vs. Tampa Bay game, I would have given the home field to Dallas rather than Tampa Bay.



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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by Rate This » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:51 pm

bmw wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:36 pm
MWmetalhead wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:16 pm
I think the NFL should go from eight divisions to four. Play each team in your own division once annually as opposed to twice. Such a change would help prevent mediocre teams from winning divisions (*cough* Tampa Bay *cough*).
I used to think that, but now that they've added an additional wild card, I think this is no longer necessary.

The one change I would support is that in a wild card vs. division winner matchup, home field goes not to the team with the better seed, but rather with the better record (seed being the tiebreaker if both teams have the same record). So I would leave seedings and matchups alone, but like in the case of the Dallas vs. Tampa Bay game, I would have given the home field to Dallas rather than Tampa Bay.
I think they should also eliminate the bye in favor of 8 teams.



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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by bmw » Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:22 pm

Rate This wrote:
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I think they should also eliminate the bye in favor of 8 teams.
So we can have even more boring matchups on wild card weekend? Honestly I think 14 teams is pushing it. I thought 12 was just right.

What they maybe SHOULD have done instead of expanding the season to 17 games was leave it at 16 weeks but make week 17 kind of like a play-in week (like the first games in the NCAA tournament). Give each of the 8 division winners a week off (a bye) and the next 16 teams (so the 8 best AFC and 8 best NFC that didn't win their division) play to determine who the 8 other teams are. Then the playoffs officially kick off with 16 teams the following week with each of the 8 division winners getting matched up against the 8 winners from the play-ins. That would effectively put 24 teams into the playoffs.



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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by SD45 » Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:13 pm

I'm bored with all the division matchups. We see Eagles and Giants enough in the regular season.



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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by Rate This » Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:44 am

bmw wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:22 pm
Rate This wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:51 pm
I think they should also eliminate the bye in favor of 8 teams.
So we can have even more boring matchups on wild card weekend? Honestly I think 14 teams is pushing it. I thought 12 was just right.

What they maybe SHOULD have done instead of expanding the season to 17 games was leave it at 16 weeks but make week 17 kind of like a play-in week (like the first games in the NCAA tournament). Give each of the 8 division winners a week off (a bye) and the next 16 teams (so the 8 best AFC and 8 best NFC that didn't win their division) play to determine who the 8 other teams are. Then the playoffs officially kick off with 16 teams the following week with each of the 8 division winners getting matched up against the 8 winners from the play-ins. That would effectively put 24 teams into the playoffs.
At least you’re working with me… I really think we deserved to get in and one bye out of 4 on each side seems kind of ridiculous…



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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by radioandtventhusiast » Wed Jan 18, 2023 3:05 pm

I usually like Al Michaels, but that wasn't a great call by him. I don't know if it's Dungy being color guy or the fact that most of his TNF games were boring. Kind of a shame.



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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by Honeyman » Sat Jan 21, 2023 3:09 pm

On the Chiefs today big. Straight and teased to the Niners tomorrow.


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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by Matt » Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:22 pm

As long as the bills lose tomorrow, everything else is gravy (which I assume is what runs through bills fans veins instead of blood).


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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:20 pm

Radioandtventhusiast is right. Al Michaels was terrible last weekend.



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Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:23 pm

Al Michaels is still the best.

The Chiefs may be in trouble without Mahomes.


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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by Matt » Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:08 pm

MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
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Al Michaels is still the best.

The Chiefs may be in trouble without Mahomes.
Mahomes is playing, but Henne lead them on a 98 yard TD drive.


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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by moldyoldie » Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:15 pm

Agnew, you bonehead! :rolleyes


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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:18 pm

Curious to know the lines for tomorrow’s games.


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Re: NFL Playoffs

Post by Honeyman » Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:25 pm

MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:18 pm
Curious to know the lines for tomorrow’s games.
Buffalo -6. (49)

SF -4. (47)


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