00:00One rule change that actually gets me the most mad, and I really hope does not pass,
00:05I do not believe it will, is the proposed change to playoff format and seating around the National
00:11Football League. As it stands right now, you have four divisional champs that are seated one
00:18through four, and then three wildcard teams in each conference, five through seven. All of those
00:24distinctions based on record, but in those group. The proposed rule change would be still the same
00:31thing. Four divisional champs earn that automatic bid to the NFL postseason in still three wildcard
00:37teams, but once you get to the playoffs, you just seed one through seven based on record,
00:43so you could have a divisional champion ranked behind or seated behind a wildcard team. I hate
00:50it. It's nonsensical, and frankly, it's not necessary. Donnie, in a 17-game NFL regular
00:57season schedule, you play each of your divisional opponents twice, six divisional games. Your
01:04schedule is heavily weighted to your division. The tradition, the rivalries that you have,
01:09the geographic ties between these divisions around the National Football League. If we are going to
01:16weight a schedule so heavily, thus winning a division should also be weighted heavily as well,
01:23earning the right not just for a playoff bid, but the home field advantage that comes with it.
01:29There needs to be that incentive. Anything else is asinine, in my opinion.
01:34Yeah, exactly. Why don't we just go back to like the 1940s Major League Baseball form and just say,
01:39okay, the best record in the NFC, the best record in the AFC, they just play in the Super Bowl. Let's
01:43avoid the playoffs altogether because we only want the top teams to actually advance. Isn't that the
01:47best way, Ben, to get the two top teams to advance to the Super Bowl that you want doing it that way?
01:51It's stupid. Nobody's ever complained about the playoffs. Like, only Bonehead's like, oh my god,
01:56they added a seventh wildcard team. That's stupid. They have six is enough. No, it's not. More
02:00meaningful football, the better. And if they're looking at saying, well, in week 17 and 18, we might get
02:05one more game that might need something down the line, stop it. Like, to the victors go the spoils.
02:10If you played your entire season, won your division, and have wrapped up that number one
02:15seat or whatever it is, or even if you're already settled in as the fifth or the sixth seed, it is
02:20your right to take week 18 off to rest for the playoffs because you earned it and you absolutely
02:25deserve it. When you look at things, Ben, where you don't need to fix them and you're trying to come
02:30up with a fix. And my favorite part of this, this isn't a team that got burned. Like, hey, here's our
02:34result. This was very unfair. Like, okay, we'll take a look at it and put a proposal in. This was the
02:38Lions who like, you know what was unfair last year, Ben? We got the number one seed. We had a
02:44buy. And then we lost to the sixth seed. So what are they actually complaining about? You had the
02:49low seed at home in your own building off a buy and you got smoked. So where is this coming from?
02:54Like, oh, it was so unfair. We got a hot team that was really, no, it played out exactly the way
02:59Detroit wanted it to play out. And now they want to change the rule to get the top two seeds as a
03:04better chance to advance. You had your chance. You know, it was the two seed in advance. Yeah,
03:09it was the Philadelphia Eagles. They did their job. You know, the one seed then, why just put the one
03:12seed then in the Super Bowl at the end of the season and have a playoffs in the NFC? That don't
03:17mean anything than Detroit. How would that fit you better, Detroit? It didn't work last year. So just
03:20make it so you automatically get a trip to the Super Bowl. Asinine stuff.
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