Good Morning Football Wants To Restructure Playoffs

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(01-09-2025, 04:19 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I feel like you're looking at this from a Bengals fan perspective and not a league-wide fairness sort of thing.  Plus, Jackson is ass in the playoffs and the Steelers haven't won a playoff game since 2016 so we're the only super bowl contender in the AFC North as far as people are concerned and damn if we didn't just miss the playoffs again.

Anyways, if the Bengals come in second in their division with 12+ wins and have to go into KC because they won their division with 9 wins and Bengals fans say "This is totally fair and makes a lot of sense" then I'll believe they really like things the way they are for the sake of fairness.

Simply put, I don't see why a team with fewer wins should have a better seed than a team with more wins.  Particularly as you look at this year and see the Texans and Buccaneers with home playoff games because they had to grapple with the Jaguars, Colts, Titans, Falcons, Panthers, and Saints.  Event though we play in a tougher division than the Texans and Buccaneers we are a few bounces away from having more wins than they are yet still having to travel to play them because they won their division and we didn't win ours.  That punishes us for having a harder division than they do, in my mind.

Actually I just watched it again and two of the analysts agreed with me.

If you're going to do it that way, then you'd need to eliminate playing each team in the division twice if those games don't mean more.