Posted on 01/04/2016 10:50:28 AM PST by Texas Eagle
With all the craziness going on around the world, I almost forgot my annual rant about how stupid, Socialistic, dumb, Liberal, Socialistic and stupid the NFL Playoff system is. Along with how stupid the Conferences and Divisions are, so here goes.....
It’s still better than that farce of a playoff in college football. College football needs to go to a 16 team playoff that includes all 10 conference champs and 6 at large teams.
Why are the Colts in the AFC South?
This would be my realignment:
AFC East - Patriots / Jets / Ravens / Bills
AFC South - Jaguars / Dolphins / Texans / Titans
AFC North - Colts / Bengals / Steelers / Browns
AFC West - (No Change) Broncos / Chargers / Raiders / Chiefs
NFC - (No Change)
Lol. The the 7-9 Seahawks beat the reigning super bowl Champion Saints
Your playoff idea makes a lot of sense; however, Tony Romo is NOT a great player
My idea is is to have the option to convert a 2-point conversion from the 10 yard line.....and if you convert it, you receive the ball on the kickoff.
It could be an alternative to an onside-kick.
Glad to see someone agrees with me.
Glad to see someone agrees with me.
Here’s what I propose—no team with a losing record makes the playoffs. The division winner gets home field advantage only if they have a better record or use that as a tie breaker scenario if head to head was not played between the teams that season.
Games are too long, the season is too long, they need to get it back to 154 games. Of course the Union will never allow it to happen.
I hate to break it to you, but the NFL is not interested in your opinion.
He's pretty darn good though, and the Cowboys at least win four or five more games with him this year if he was healthy.
What “betterment of the game”? DHs? Interleague play? Pitching specialists? Wild cards? How has any of this made the game better?
DH’s-utter garbage rule
Interleague-used to hate it...changed my mind
relief specialists-hate to see it
wild cards-with expansion, it was necessary
and kicked the crap out of the New Orleans Saints with a far superior record. What is better for football than underdogs put into positions to beat favorites? What was a better Superb owl than NYG beating up NE going for an undefeated season? Pittsburgh beat Seattle in a Super Bowl when by your way of reckoning, they most likely wouldn’t have made the playoffs. That was 9-7 vs 13-3 btw.
With automatic touchdown reviews and team penalty reviews a game is now 3 hours long.
I was happy when the Chiefs renovated their stadium (read fixed up the old one instead of building a brand new one).
And it sports real grass (after a short dalliance with Astro-Turf), no dome, rain and cold. IOW, football.
I’m pretty sure the entire division (AFC west) plays on real grass, and of course outdoors...but I’m not sure what San Diego’s future stadium will have.
Somehow, they have resisted the lure of the dome.
If the Saints wanted a home game against the Seahawks, they should have won their division. They didn’t and were obviously an inferior team no matter the day, travel time or inconvenience.
Also none of this ball crosses the plane for a score. The ball has to land in hands across the line on the ground for a score. Maybe rethink that forward progress rule too. Wherever the player hits the ground is where the ball is placed for the down.
I don’t like any of these things. The DH lengthens games, reduces strategy, and adds less than a run per game.
Interleague play dilutes the scheduling of league opponents. We hve no AL or NL anymore. You could use those games to schedule the teams from your own league.
Specialists — what happened to the complete game?
Wild cards destroy pennant races. The idea is to come in first. It wasn’t necessary to let a team win the World Series without winning its division. Take the Marlins — two World Championships, no division titles. As long as a baseball season is, it’s plenty long enough to give you a true champion.
I think I started to hear about the idea of wild cards after the Yankees-Red Sox extra game in 1978 (the Bucky Dent game.)
Its a problem that’s completely unnecessary. Everyone seems to have forgotten what the replay challenge was for. It was supposed to address blatantly obvious bad calls, which made the entire stadium groan when replayed on the jumbotron. They still use the word “incontrovertible” when dealing with replays - and they should follow that. If somebody has to stop every frame to look for a wiggle in the ball, its not incontrovertible - and they should stick with the call on the field, made in real time.
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