Isaac

I hate Goodell more on a daily basis. Of all the tragic damage he has done to the NFL and its fans, this change could be his greatest crime.

PatriotSeven

Horrible idea.

I'd be ok with extending the number of games and weeks by introducing a round robin like round for the divisional round, which would actually really help decide the stronger teams who would play in the Superbowl, lessening the luck factor.

But this does the opposite. This means we are now going to allow a bunch of mediocre teams to get in and add more single elimination games, hoping some scrub gets lucky and makes it to the Superbowl. This just increase the luck factor for bad teams even more. Teams who play inconsistent during the regular season, can exploit this and might not give it their all in the regular season in order to eliminate injuries and get on a streak late in the year.

Way to cheapen the tournament even further and erode the benefit of consistently winning teams.

It works in the NBA because they have a best of 7 format, so the weaker team is HIGHLY unlikely to get lucky 4 times in a row, in each round.

thenepatsrule

Unless your name is Lebron and the commish is hell bent on getting you your first Ring

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fxkane

The stupid greed that kills.

The only thing that truly distinguishes the NFL from the MLB and NBA is that nearly every single game is as important as a playoff game. If average and below average teams can make the actual playoffs, then these season games lose a great deal of their edge... the players lose their edge too, and so do their teams.

No change is not conservative--it's radical and right.

shmessy

Lawyers screw up everything.

I wish Goodell would just go away at this point.

Between this hairbrained idea and the 18 game season idiocy it seems as if he is trying to kill the sport.

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Joker

Run your franchise intelligently and correctly, you will have success as the league as currently constituted.

Run your team like a media whoring crackhouse of deviants and criminals, squirt into the playoffs like a fat slob with the runs and go beserk pandering to the lowest common denominator demographic,splashing your face and your big mouth in every media outlet nationwide,...THIS is what you'll get if this moronic idea is ever implemented.....the 6-10 NY Rats in the AFC Championship game...of course Goodell wants this, it's the only way he can hope to realize the dream he and his behind the scenes billionaire puppeteers have of a NY/NY Super Bowl. He tried destroying the Patriots...he attempted top dismantle New Orleans. Everything he does is NY centric strategic wise.

Tagliabue's decision speaks volumes about what HE and others in the NFL pantheon think about ol' Rog the Cyclops-dell. The gig is up...dump this moron...eliminate the position of Commissioner...compartmentalize the league into relevant sections that answer to a commission of owners.

The Reign Of Error must come to an end.

rlcarr

Some you people are getting truly ridiculous. The article you quoted even says the idea came from the owners. Yet all you can say is "Goodell! Goodell! Goodell!"

You people are being played so well by the owners it's not even funny. By knee-jerking about Goodell you let the owners off the hook and thus increase the likelihood of this playoff travesty coming to fruition.

patsinthesnow

Goodell:"Dah, well ya see, one team would get a super Bye! Den we add another playoff round all together called da Super AFC Championship!"


Wildcard Round:

7. vs. 4.
5. vs. 6

Divisional Round:

2. (bye) vs. lower seed
3. (bye) vs. higher seed

AFCCG:

winner vs. winner

Super AFCCG:

1. (Superbye) vs. AFCCG winner

Bravo777

Dear Goodell,

Snake Eyes

Does he spend all day thinking of ways to ruin the sport? I seriously wish someone would drop a piano on him.

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