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Report: NFL to add 7th team to playoffs in 2014

JTC111 said:
We'll have to disagree then. Just as I'm not in favor of maintaining mediocrity on my favorite team, I'm not in favor of mediocrity in the playoffs. From a quality point of view, adding a 3rd wild card spot will simply add a mediocre team to the playoffs the vast majority of the time.
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Vast Majority? as shown in that example of the past 14 years, there's just as good of a chance of a 10-6 or better team making the playoffs with 7 seeds, as there is an 8-8 team...
 
nyjunc said:
just b/c a team wins 10/11 games doesn't mean they deserve it. The Pats had a cake sched in 2008, they weren't nearly as good as their record. Ari turned it on late and were playing well but not well enough. If they want to seed top 6 regardless of division that would prevent an 8-8 team(or 7-9 as happened a few years ago) from making it as division champs and would allow teams like Ari to make it.
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That 7-9 team was Seattle who won the NFCW & if I recall thumped the Saints (up in Jet City) on wildcard weekend.
 
truedolfan57 said:
Vast Majority? as shown in that example of the past 14 years, there's just as good of a chance of a 10-6 or better team making the playoffs with 7 seeds, as there is an 8-8 team...
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Yes, but 21 of 28 of the teams would have been 9-7 or 8-8. I consider those records to be mediocre.
 
Hope not, we would have gotten our asses handed by Cincinnati with the way we played the last two games.
 
JTC111 said:
Yes, but 21 of 28 of the teams would have been 9-7 or 8-8. I consider those records to be mediocre.
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no team that won at least 10 games, has ever missed the playoffs, prior to 2002. before the texans became an expansion team. Now, lots of 10 win and some 11 win teams are missing the playoffs, while 9-7, 8-8, 7-9 division winners are making it. this new layout will prevent any 10 win team, to miss the playoffs, like it used to be. so one 9-7 or 8-8 team makes it? it hardly "water downs" the playoffs.
 
teams barely 8-8 and some that are 8-8 are getting in. The playoffs seem like they are perfect like it is since it seems like the right teams got in this year and the right teams are sitting home.
 
truedolfan57 said:
no team that won at least 10 games, has ever missed the playoffs, prior to 2002. before the texans became an expansion team. Now, lots of 10 win and some 11 win teams are missing the playoffs, while 9-7, 8-8, 7-9 division winners are making it. this new layout will prevent any 10 win team, to miss the playoffs, like it used to be. so one 9-7 or 8-8 team makes it? it hardly "water downs" the playoffs.
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I assume you're talking about us not getting in at 10-6, but that was 2003, not 2002. Anyway, we didn't get in because 4 teams in the conference had 12+ wins and and we lost the tiebreaker with Denver for the last WC spot. Is this really about still being butt hurt over something that happened in 2003? That's not a tragedy; that's football. If a lot of teams play well, the bar is raised. The bar raises and lowers season to season depending on the quality of the play and competition. Now you want to lower the bar, and yes, it absolutely waters it down.
 
JTC111 said:
I assume you're talking about us not getting in at 10-6, but that was 2003, not 2002. Anyway, we didn't get in because 4 teams in the conference had 12+ wins and and we lost the tiebreaker with Denver for the last WC spot. Is this really about still being butt hurt over something that happened in 2003? That's not a tragedy; that's football. If a lot of teams play well, the bar is raised. The bar raises and lowers season to season depending on the quality of the play and competition. Now you want to lower the bar, and yes, it absolutely waters it down.
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no, i wasn't talking about the dolphins at all. i was saying, every team that had a 10 win season, always made it to the playoffs, prior to the divisions changing because of the texans expansion in 2002. After 2002, many 10-6 and a few 11-5 teams missed the playoffs, but the average teams still made it...
 
truedolfan57 said:
no, i wasn't talking about the dolphins at all. i was saying, every team that had a 10 win season, always made it to the playoffs, prior to the divisions changing because of the texans expansion in 2002. After 2002, many 10-6 and a few 11-5 teams missed the playoffs, but the average teams still made it...
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Then your complaint is really an echo of what I said earlier about divisions allowing mediocre teams make the playoffs. We have too many divisions, and when one is bad (as the NFC North was this year) some mediocre team has to finish first and get in.
 
JTC111 said:
Then your complaint is really an echo of what I said earlier about divisions allowing mediocre teams make the playoffs. We have too many divisions, and when one is bad (as the NFC North was this year) some mediocre team has to finish first and get in.
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The Packers would have probably been a 12 win team in the AFC South with or without a healthy Rodgers. The NFC North isn't a great division but let's not pretend it's the worst division in football. It's not even as bad as the NFC East
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
The Packers would have probably been a 12 win team in the AFC South with or without a healthy Rodgers. The NFC North isn't a great division but let's not pretend it's the worst division in football. It's not even as bad as the NFC East
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I didn't say it was the "worst." I said it wasn't good this year. And it wasn't. I was just using that as an example to illustrate my point.
 
JTC111 said:
Then your complaint is really an echo of what I said earlier about divisions allowing mediocre teams make the playoffs. We have too many divisions, and when one is bad (as the NFC North was this year) some mediocre team has to finish first and get in.
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adding an extra team per conference will allow the 10 win team, to make the playoffs, where they belong. where they've always belonged, minus the last 10 years.
 
truedolfan57 said:
adding an extra team per conference will allow the 10 win team, to make the playoffs, where they belong. where they've always belonged, minus the last 10 years.
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Or, going to two divisions would limit the ability of the 8-8 teams to make the playoffs. I like that solution better.
 
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