rlcarr

Presumably you'd have a play-in game like the NCAA does when they have 65 teams selected.

Four division winners and three wildcards. Bottom two wildcards play each other, then the remaining six teams do what they do today.

And if the league was willing to drop the off week between the conference championships and the SB, you could do this w/o having to move the SB even later into Feb.

All that said, it's a terrible idea and things should stay the way they are now.

Deus Irae

#1 seed gets a first round bye
2 v 7
3 v 6
4 v 5

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Joker

that's how you see it...and "knee jerking"??? are you a human being or a bot? you been around since 2007 or what?...here's the clip...I read it differently than YOU do, but I will not insult YOUR comprehension of this very limited blurb..

At the conclusion of the league’s quarterly ownership meeting in Dallas, Commissioner Roger Goodell dusted off a concept that rears its head from time to time. that reads like HE "dusted off" the concept near the end of the meetings and PRESENTED IT to the owners

Expanded playoffs.

Goodell said that the owners “teed up” the issue of expanding the playoffs from 12 to 14 or 16 teams, and that the discussions will continue in the coming months.the owners teed it up after the issue was brought up by Goodell at the end of the meetings and agreed to talk FURTHER...at FUTURE meetings...if this was THEIR idea they would have tackled it DURING THIS SESSION....they(the owners) have charged Goodell with finding new revenue streams for their league...THIS is one of HIS concepts

The use of 16 playoff teams would eliminate the bye weeks, requiring the top two seeds in each conference to play in the wild-card round, which would become a quarterfinal round in the AFC and NFC.

It also suggests that, with a 16-team playoff field, perhaps the NFL will eventually decide to fill vacancies in L.A. and London via expansion.the owners want expansion...Goodell has been tasked to make it so...this has been on the table since HE took over in 2006...this idiotic "dusted off" idea was his idea at the start, one they nixed back then and one he NOW has brought back to be "teed up". Of course the owners want more revenue streams, but THIS idea is all Goodell's and has been all along.

Fencer

Goodell isn't actually a lawyer. He's a businessman from an impressive family who didn't even have enough brains to go to an Ivy League school or get an MBA.

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Brady_to_Moss

it will be approved since the NFL will make so much more $$...sooner or later people..greedy ******* *******s

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Danny

Just **** off already, Roger.

jcdavey

i personally hate expansion in all sports, and i hate the inclusion of nearly half the damn league in each sport, in playoffs

i prefer the older days when it was more special to make the playoffs......


expansion and the inclusion of more teams in the playoffs has watered down the sports world

bob costas out!

TheBostonStraggler

Goodell and the owners version of the NFL: No kick offs, the QB can stand there or run without ever being hit, defenders cannot ever stop the receiver from catching the ball, no helmets can ever touch another player. So how about every team makes the playoffs too? How about there is no SB winner and every team get's a "we all won!" Stuart Smalley Trophy? Or better yet, how about the owners sit down in the offseason and draw up what teams should be in the playoffs to maximize geography, television ratings, drama, with a positive and uplifting story that touches the general public's feelings (like a Hallmark christmas movie)?
I realize this newest suggestion for expanded playoff entries is small, however, where does this stop? RG and the owners are trying to take the great sport of pro football and turn it into a orchestrated, directed, sanitized television studio production.

The playoffs should be for the best of the NFL with a decent team or two that slides in by the skin of their teeth. Any more spots for playoffs and now there will be joke teams that will slide in through gross mediocrity. There will be a 7-9 team with starting QBs that have no business playing playoff football. Whatever.....

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Joker

no matter how we, the fans , feel about it...change WILL come. Better come to terms with that concept. My fear is THIS moron will be the chief architect. That is why I, as a fan, am all for the elimination of a "commissioner" in favor of a board of directors...and the departmentalization of the league into five or six arms, each specifically charged with overseeing specific facets of league business. Let all league business and issues be worked up and presented by group think and let the owners make decisions at board meetings as necessary.

This Uber-Fuhrer act by Goodell needs to be mothballed like leather helmets and metal cleats.

Chopblock CB

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