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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.The argument for it is that "Well, we force these teams to play six games against one another."
Quite simply, there is no perfectly fair system that will always guarantee that the N best teams in each conference make the playoffs. It's a question of what inequities you're willing to live with. Personally, I'm OK with saying "Every division winner gets in," although I'd prefer "Every division winner over .500 gets in."
This four team division setup, has been and will always be a travesty. In a league of 32 teams, there's no way in hell that a team and their fans should be rewarded with a trip to the playoffs based solely off of having a better record than just three of those other teams. We could have a 6-10 team in the playoffs this year and multiple superior teams with better records and a win against that team, sitting at home watching. Can anyone explain how that makes sense?
Interestingly enough, every single team that people have complained about making it into the playoffs (SD in 2008, Seattle in 2010, StL one year when they were 8-8 and probably another couple I am forgetting) have gone on to win their opening playoff games. So clearly they weren't that far out of their league.
They're only one game out of the #1 seed. After their bye this week they play NO, KC and Cincy at home and Cincy and Atlanta on the road. Sounds doable to me.
thanks for having the guts (insanity) to do this.http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine
My first stab at it I have
AFC
#1 New England
#2 Kansas City
#3 Indianapolis vs #6 Houston
#4 Cleveland vs #5 Denver
Was it only back in September, two months ago, when we were being harangued about the deep superiority of the mighty NFC...Would love for the OP to happen.
Arizona, SF, and Seattle are going to beat the cr@p out of each other in the coming weeks. I could see Arizona losing three of six and ending up as the #2 seed or even as a wildcard.
GB may win out at this point.
AFC North is wide open, and as indicated the NFC South is absurd and probably shouldn't be allowed to participate.