Sorry.... I'm not a sheep who just runs with the herd. In most seasons, good teams clinch playoff berths with a couple of weeks left in the season even with a 16 game season. Bad teams are done little more than halfway through the year. Now, the good teams will be able to blow a game or two and still clinch by week 15 or 16, so there'll be less need to follow each week. There will also be a lot less reason to pay attention to non-"favorite team" games. I don't need to really focus on watching that Cardinals-Saints game in week 2 "just in case" anymore.
I quit watching baseball when they took the World Series away from us. I reckon I can resist wasting more weekends watching football if it comes to it.
I don't consider watching football "wasting my weekends" that is what my wife thinks.