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JagFan81 · 03-05-2020, 09:52 PM

(03-05-2020, 05:18 PM)D6 Wrote:
(03-02-2020, 02:47 PM)JagFan81 Wrote: I do agree. When 14 out of 32 teams make the playoffs, and only the #1 seed gets a bye, i see teams like basketball just playing to get in and then trying in the playoffs.

If they got rid of Thursday games so players can recover but no extra regular season bye and no #2 seed bye means a team could have a bye week 3 or 4 then play 13 straight in regular season and another 3 in the playoffs. 16 games straight. Thats brutal.

In addition to what you mentioned, which are excellent points, I think there's a very realistic possibility that the NFL will expand the playoffs to 16 teams sometime in the next 15 years.

When a team in a division with 3 losing record teams gets the # 1 seed, complaints will be coming from many different directions. Hence, a call to eliminate byes. Knowing that the NFL has a large number of owners that don't see the big picture ( myopic is how I would describe them ), putting short term revenue above what's best long term, the NFL easily could be on its way to being a version of the NBA or NHL.

Very well put. This is one of my biggest problems with the owners and NFL. Money and profit has clouded their thinking on everything. They want constant growth and ever increasing returns, that doesn't just happen and especially when you start destroying the core product.

You can see their thinking, everyone loves the playoffs, they get TV and advertising cash. So lets have more. Fans only have one game to pick from in the playoffs. But that is going to destroy regular season viewing figures as those games will be largely meaningless. Like you say, short term thinking.

I do wonder if we will see an increase in teams at some point. The NFL is invested in the International Series games and while the league structure is very good at the moment, i wonder if they would try adding 8 teams, 1 for each division and try and open up London, Mexico, maybe Canada for extra teams. Im sure the finance would determine how possible it would make it but like i said, money is clouding everything.