Yeah, whatever.
Grow a set for christ's sake.
The NFL wants more games, it's great revenue for them, why would they want to eliminate playoff games?
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donttread (01-19-2019)
My suggestion would be to only have one wild card team per conference and only the team in each conference with the best regular season record gets a bye and a guarantee of home field advantage.
Expanding the playoffs to eight teams in each conference would make it possible that a team with a losing record making the playoffs would be common. . I remember the furor a few years ago when a team won their division with a 7-9 record.
I'm not looking at it from a revenue generating point of view. From a business point of view it might also make sense. Leave the audience wanting more. Don't over do it.
The example I used was a division winner and I don't recall that ever happening before. That means it is extremely rare. If the playoffs were expanded to include half the teams in the NFL, a team with a losing record in the playoffs would not be unusual.
Back in the day when there was just one wild card team per conference there were just three divisions. The only way to eliminate a bye week is the 4 division winners of conf. only or expand the playoffs to 8 per conf. Bad idea IMO. If you went to a 16 team playoff you probably eliminate a sub 500 team by having 8 division winners and 8 at large teams with the best records regardless of conf, and seed the teams 1 - 16.
It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right.
Captain Obvious (01-19-2019)