Should the NFL Playoff Format Change? I BMitch & Finlay

WJFK-FM / 106.7 The Fan

JP and BMitch think the NFL changing its playoff seeding format would be a terrible idea.

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00:00If the divisions don't matter, then stop playing six division games.

00:06Yeah.

00:07Don't double up the divisional opponent.

00:09Yeah, so they matter.

00:11If they matter, then winning it has to matter.

00:14Win your division.

00:15They say if you win your division, you get a home game, right?

00:19But this rule change, you still have winners getting in with the division.

00:25Say you go 7-10 but win a bad NFC South.

00:28You would still get in, but you would not get a home game anymore.

00:33But I don't buy that.

00:36Like you said, well, stop saying divisional games because if I am 7-10

00:40and the other team is 11-6, no matter if it's in my building or their building,

00:47I should be able to beat them.

00:50If just a legitimate record is telling you something, you should be able to beat them.

00:54But if you go to somebody and play them and they have a worse record

00:57and you get all mad just because you weren't at home,

01:01that's a letdown by players and coaches.

01:04This also, which I find interesting, would change the divisional round setup

01:09where currently it kind of gets bracketed out, right?

01:14But the one seed would play the lowest remaining seed.

01:20So say the seven beat the two, right?

01:25Then the seven would then play the one.

01:30It just seems I'm very much a if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

01:37The NFL playoffs are so far from broken, I don't know why you need to fix it.

01:43And the Lions proposal says the language in it specifically gives their reasoning

01:53for what they want to do.

01:54And it says to make late season games more exciting.

02:02The specific language, the effect seeds non-division champions teams higher than division champion

02:08teams in the playoffs if they have a better regular season record.

02:12Reason, competitive equity provides excitement and competition in late season games,

02:17rewards the best performing teams from the regular season.

02:20I don't disagree that this would be more of a reward for the best performing teams

02:25from the regular season.

02:26Does late season NFL games lack excitement and competition?

02:31No, they don't.

02:32But none of this stuff, it really is discussing the NFL, maybe the NBA.

02:39But the NFL has great games down the stretch.

02:42They just being able to, you know, flex games makes it even better.

02:47But you're trying to solve something for a few teams that lost on the road.

02:54Why don't they take accountability that they just played bad, got their ass kicked?

02:59That's the problem.

03:00Like, what if they re-seed and that team that got into the playoffs with the record,

03:06they won the division, they're sitting at 9-8 and they still go to your home and beat you?

03:12What are you going to say next time?

03:13Looking at last year's playoffs, the only thing, the only surprise is the Vikings with the much better record

03:25than the Rams lost in L.A.

03:27But, dude, the Vikings had been taking on oil the last month of the season.

03:31The Vikings were not very good throughout the whole year.

03:35You know, the clock struck midnight on Sam Darnold.

03:37All of a sudden, he was hesitant to make good throws anymore.

03:40Staying in the pocket, getting beat up.

03:42The Commanders upset the Lions, but that was exactly the Lions losing at home last year to Washington.

03:50That's who they would have faced based on their updated proposal.

03:53Washington was the sixth seed.

03:55That was the lowest seed advancing.

03:56Washington was the �

03:59Golden pearl.

04:03Jackson was the ninth seed.

04:04Operation home.

04:06Jackson was the ninth seed.

04:07Sin was the holy seed.

04:09Johnson was the seventh seed.

04:09Moses felt the Sauk Pont-Sauk.

04:10The win is born.

04:11The 1980s of Michigan

04:22disease is the 내일.

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