Good Morning Football Wants To Restructure Playoffs

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(01-09-2025, 03:27 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: We'd essentially be punishing ourselves for playing in a tough division, especially in years past.

If you eliminate playing each divisional team twice, I can maybe see it, but you'd be punishing teams for playing tougher schedules.

I'm not sure what you are saying, but the Vikings won 14 games and play in the NFC North with what people seem to see as a SB favorite in the Lions (also, the Packers made the playoffs despite going 1-5 in the division).  By what I assume your logic is you are saying division winners with fewer wins play in "tougher" divisions.

Are the AFC South, NFC South, and NFC West tough divisions because their winning teams had 10 wins?  

Teams in tough divisions should have the benefit of earning better seeds than teams that win a weak division by default by winning more games.  If the Ravens are 17-0 next year and we are 15-2 I don't see why we should have to be bumped down to the 5th seed and go to Houston to play a 9 win Texans team, for example.  I don't think I can just accept that the "had a harder schedule" than we did.

Also, the more chances and ways you have to improve your seed the fewer times teams would be "locked in" to a seed and rest their starters...something people seem to be pretty upset about these days.