Does anyone think expanding playoffs is a good idea?

[ScottishPatriots]

I think it's an awful idea, if they ever do this i hope an 8-8 team wins the Super Bowl to show them how bad an idea this was, the playoffs are usually mediocre in the wildcard round in an average year the fact the Divisional round is typically the best week of the year should tell you something, it's cause you usually get 4 good games with most of the trash teams gone.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Great idea.

Incredible games this weekend.

 

[mosi]

No way. But honestly, the games worked perfectly. The home teams, which for the most part are division winners, won their games against cream puff teams. I always thought that was the way it should be.

 

[PlainOldEd]

Someone thinks it's a good idea.....

 

[OhExaulted1]

I think it's inevitable. there was a lot of talk about it just last year. I don't like the idea of a 7-9 team getting in but I still throw up in my mouth whenever 2008 comes up. 11-5, 10-6 teams should be in.

 

[Deus Irae]

It's all about player safety

- R. Goodell

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

Did anybody say yes (without being sarcastic or on acid) ?

 

[ausbacker]

No. Actually hell no.

IMO, you could not find nor develop a better system than what is currently in play.

 

[pazrul72]

They should eliminate the divisions and wild cards and only let in the best four teams

I hate baseball for the most part but the one thing they get IMO right is the playoffs. 8 teams so only the best no byes and no boring games. Getting to the playoffs is an achievement worth celebrating in baseball vrs the NFL where as long as you aren't the bills it hasn't been that long since you at least had a shot. I would love to see just the top 8 teams and hell take it one step further eliminate conferences so it's literally the best 25% of the league gets in. You aren't in the top 25%? Boo hoo cry me a river see you next year.

 

[slam]

If we had 14 teams in the playoffs, it'd be Atlanta vs Tampa Bay and KC vs Tennessee (I think over Denver ). More chances for bad games.

 

[slam]

I think it's an awful idea, if they ever do this i hope an 8-8 team wins the Super Bowl to show them how bad an idea this was.

If that happened it'd definitely be The Giants winning.

 

[Chevy]

I've said this many times:

Win your Division
Win your Conference
Win the Superbowl

I say drop one Wild Card, and only best record in the Conference gets the bye.

Never, ever, ever! should a non-division-winning team host a playoff game.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

The only valid reasons for expanding the playoffs is to get more local fans interested in the POs as well as generate more viewership numbers/added revenue. That's it, period. While the downside is it clearly will, from a competitive standpoint, make the playoffs tangibly more mediocre.

Look, as it stands now the vast majority of teams that make the playoffs are the established quality of the NFL. But the system, a good one it is, also allows for that one or two semi-questionable teams, sometimes, to make the POs. But if you expand it you now are reaching to the pool below the Miamis and Houstons -- down to even a Bills or Indy. That's a travesty as these two teams proved through the season they are not a quality game.
Think about that, in an expanded PO format the Phins or Texans are now closer to the mid tier PO quality team. #integrity

 

[JoeSixPat]

I know I'm in the minority - but when a 6-10 team makes the playoffs and a 11-5 team does not in the CURRENT system, I'm hard pressed to find a reason to defend and keep the status quo rather than let good teams into the playoffs

There's no stopping BAD teams from getting into the playoffs under the current system - nor under an expanded playoff system (if a team with a losing record wins it's division)

Expanding the playoffs at least would ensure that those 11-5 teams who have been left out at the expense of the 6-10 teams in the past would still get a chance to compete

I don't know why that's a bad thing

 

[pctronics0072]

I've said this many times:

Win your Division
Win your Conference
Win the Superbowl

I say drop one Wild Card, and only best record in the Conference gets the bye.

Never, ever, ever! should a non-division-winning team host a playoff game.

Honest question. Why? (For the last statement)

 

[JoeSixPat]

What's always amusing to me is that you see a lot of NFL fans quote Mark Cuban saying that the NFL expanding the playoffs from 12 to 14 teams in a 32 team league would lead to it's demise

These folks seem to think the NBA owner is magnanimously trying to help the NFL from making a big mistake!

Did they not notice that Cuban's NBA already allows 16 out of 30 teams into the playoffs?

Or that Cuban HIMSELF is advocating that the NBA expand THEIR playoffs to go from 16 to 20 teams in a 30 team league?

Apparently they haven't asked themselves why Cuban thinks a 20 out of 30 playoff system is great for the NBA but that anything more than 12 out of 32 teams would be the death knell of the NFL

Doesn't seem to occur to them that Cuban's admonition to the NFL has more to do with him padding his pockets and preventing the NFL from taking away more NBA fans than it does out of concern for the future of the NFL!

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

I think the regular season should be 18 games.

If this ever happens this would be the tipping point for me.

16 games is already too long of a regular season, but just something we've gotten used to.

 

[Rob0729]

After this weekend, I am all for moving to the NCAA format of 4 total playoff teams.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

MLB had too few - NBA has too many with half the league in post season.

Don't add playoff berths.

 

[nabwong]

How about eliminate divisions and just play every team in the conference. That way you can have a balanced strength of schedule. You'd still have to contend with home and away. Don't play the other conference until the superbowl. I mean there isn't a perfect system.