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.