12-07-2021, 02:37 PM
(12-07-2021, 12:56 PM)ochocincos Wrote: The division opponents only really matter for the tiebreakers.
If you go undefeated outside the division but winless within the division, you'd go 11-6 and still likely win the division.
As such, the division record doesn't matter as much.
It'd be a different game if NFL operated where division winners were based just on division record and then tiebreaker based on overall record.
Division games matter MORE than any other games. There have been many cases of a team making the playoffs as a division champion when they did not have a good enough record to make it as a wildcard.
The fact that they are only 6 of the total 17 does not change the fact that "per game" they carry more weight than any others.
