NFL playoffs may change... (1 Viewer)

[Tom Servo]

by adding a seventh team in each conference.

Adding a seventh team to each conference as a third wild card "is under serious consideration," Goodell said. It'd be easy enough to tweak the current playoff format by taking away one of each conference's first-round byes, and having that 2-seed play the 7-seed.

From the Ginger Hammer:

"They're going to study some aspects of that because when would those games occur and one team would get a bye in each conference and you'd have six games on the weekend. So would you have three on Saturday, and three on Sunday? Or do you get one on Friday and two on Saturday and two on Sunday and one on Monday? I think those are the kinds of things we want to evaluate."

Thoughts?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=702686

 

[The Hank]

Super Bowl winner will receive a Honda vehicle of their choosing as well

 

[ShamrockPride]

If they're gonna do this and take away a 1st round bye just make it a 16 team, 4 week playoff with no byes.

I think teams at the top would intentionally tank themselves out of that bye spot as we've all seen for quite some time that those byes are hardly ever the advantage they seem.

 

[Warrior]

Perhaps the multi-page thread at the top of the first page wasn't enough discussion on this topic

 

[Fariq]

Tom Servo just got a citation from the internet message board police.

 

[ghostguy123]

If they're gonna do this and take away a 1st round bye just make it a 16 team, 4 week playoff with no byes.

I think teams at the top would intentionally tank themselves out of that bye spot as we've all seen for quite some time that those byes are hardly ever the advantage they seem.

lol