Quote:There wouldn't be a purpose. I am not fond of that though.

All in all, the way it is now is probably best. Every now and then it is an issue when a far superior team visits an 8-8. But it's not that big of a deal to me.

 

I certainly hope the current league structure and playoff formats remains in effect for a very long time to come.  Yet,  if for discussion sake if the NFL got rid of divisions ( I don't see this happening anytime soon )  and just had two conferences,  it would be imperative the league had a large enough of an unbalanced schedule that it separated the playoffs from the regular season:

 

 In other words,  lets say the NFL had every team in each conference playing each other once.  With one game against a team from the other conference completing the 16 game schedule.   From my point of view,   this would defeat the purpose of having intraconference playoffs in seasons that the team with the best record was 1 1/2 games or more ahead of the team with the 2nd best record.    If for example under this formula the Seahawks were 14-2 and the next best NFC team the Panthers were 12-4,  it wouldn't make sense for the Seahawks to have to compete in the Conference playoffs.   Based on logic,  they would automatically earn a Super Bowl berth.

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