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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 431119" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Footballtalk, </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I don’t have a problem with a 15-1 team being out losing their first playoff game because everyone involved knew the consequences of losing. I also think the excitement of the first playoff games would be diminished in the round robin format because no matter what, no matter how dominating the win or humiliating the loss, no team is eliminated. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Another problem with it IMO is the NFL is determined to go to an 18 game schedule. I’ve also heard/read they are reluctant to start the regular season before Labor Day. They may build in two bye weeks (and they BETTER expand the rosters and number of actives on game days), but there will be at least one. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Once they go to 18 games, the regular season ends after 19 or 20 weeks. Then Wildcard weekend narrows each conference to four teams. After two more weekends, all four teams in the division round robins could each have one loss. The fourth weekend of the playoffs (including wildcard weekend - the third week of the divisional round) would determine the teams for the conference championship who would play that game in the fifth weekend of the playoffs. Two weeks to the Super Bowl (with the Waste-Of-Time Bowl in between) and you have the Super Bowl being played 26 or 27 weeks after opening day. Assuming a Labor Day start, 18 game season with 2 byes, and this round robin playoff system, if the division round lasted as long as they could for at least one conference (3 weeks), if this were in place for the 2011-2012 season, I believe the Super Bowl would be played on March 4th. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Eliminate wildcard weekend and save a week but lose the excitement of more teams vying for playoff spots toward the end of the season. That doesn’t make sense to me. Eliminating the Pro Bowl would be fine with me but then you have a team potentially playing 5 consecutive playoff games to reach the Super Bowl. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">In addition to the wear and tear and fatigue-caused injuries, one of the next big issues for the NFL is going to be concussions. Even more than it is now. IMO they play enough games now. In fact if they wanted to make two pre season games “scrimmages” instead, that’d be fine with me, too (<em>but they’d lose money so nix that idea!</em>). </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">I think it will be a mistake when they go to an 18 game schedule and I think a three-round divisional playoff is also a mistake. IMO they can't increase the value of the Conference or Super Bowl trophies. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 431119, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]Footballtalk, [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]I don’t have a problem with a 15-1 team being out losing their first playoff game because everyone involved knew the consequences of losing. I also think the excitement of the first playoff games would be diminished in the round robin format because no matter what, no matter how dominating the win or humiliating the loss, no team is eliminated. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]Another problem with it IMO is the NFL is determined to go to an 18 game schedule. I’ve also heard/read they are reluctant to start the regular season before Labor Day. They may build in two bye weeks (and they BETTER expand the rosters and number of actives on game days), but there will be at least one. [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]Once they go to 18 games, the regular season ends after 19 or 20 weeks. Then Wildcard weekend narrows each conference to four teams. After two more weekends, all four teams in the division round robins could each have one loss. The fourth weekend of the playoffs (including wildcard weekend - the third week of the divisional round) would determine the teams for the conference championship who would play that game in the fifth weekend of the playoffs. Two weeks to the Super Bowl (with the Waste-Of-Time Bowl in between) and you have the Super Bowl being played 26 or 27 weeks after opening day. Assuming a Labor Day start, 18 game season with 2 byes, and this round robin playoff system, if the division round lasted as long as they could for at least one conference (3 weeks), if this were in place for the 2011-2012 season, I believe the Super Bowl would be played on March 4th. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]Eliminate wildcard weekend and save a week but lose the excitement of more teams vying for playoff spots toward the end of the season. That doesn’t make sense to me. Eliminating the Pro Bowl would be fine with me but then you have a team potentially playing 5 consecutive playoff games to reach the Super Bowl. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]In addition to the wear and tear and fatigue-caused injuries, one of the next big issues for the NFL is going to be concussions. Even more than it is now. IMO they play enough games now. In fact if they wanted to make two pre season games “scrimmages” instead, that’d be fine with me, too ([I]but they’d lose money so nix that idea![/I]). [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]I think it will be a mistake when they go to an 18 game schedule and I think a three-round divisional playoff is also a mistake. IMO they can't increase the value of the Conference or Super Bowl trophies. [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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