Quality game there, Houston/KC. Sloppy garbage low quality garbageball. Having the Houston Texans hosting ap playoff game. Sorry, they dont deserve it. Jets should be hosting this game, I dont care that Houston "won" that CFL quality division.
Sooner or later the NFL is going to have to realize that its better being the 2nd or even 3rd best team in a good division over the "best" team in a bad division. Texans are a 5 win team in every other division in the league.
I know, it's just a shit team like Houston (or Washington in NFC) have no right to be in the playoffs right now NFL, fix these unbalanced divisions.
4 team divisions is the problem. When you have 8 4 team divisions the odds on having at least one really crappy division goes way up. On the other hand, nothing works more for parity than 4 team divisions. You can get blocked behind the Pats for fifteen years, like the AFC East has, but it's really hard to get blocked behind 2 or 3 teams for an extended period of time. You have to be a really crappy franchise for that to happen. They're not going to fix something that isn't fundamentally broken from a fan interest point of view. Being locked behind the Pats sucks, but that's not the experience most divisions have at this point. In fact the AFC East is the only division in the NFL that is routinely non-competitive in terms of who wins the division.
9-7 teams have gone to the SB. Things change in the NFL every year. For all we know the AFC South may be a good division in a few years.
they should make a "special" division out of all of the last place teams in the conference and make the winner the 2nd wildcard. Have them play each other twice while reducing the games in their regular division to one time only, unable to be declared the regular division winner.
Have you seen the tv contracts? They're pretty happy. Bitching that you had to watch a shit show really does nothing to help. They only care that you watched
Its a fucking joke.......How does the NFL justify a 10-6 team sitting out and a peice of shit 9-7 team that gets shut out in the first round.We would have atleast made it a game ,it would have been close
Well we had our own chance to beat Houston and didn't so I can't take that argument seriously. This this this. It's just unavoidable with 32 teams.
We had our chance to be in the playoffs and choked it away. Texans did what was needed to win the division and get int the playoffs Jets didn't
It would completely change the way the schedule is done, but 4 divisions would probably work way better than 8.
A 9-7 team that beat the Jets? How does the league justify taking them out of it? If they had beat the Texans we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Or expanding to 36 teams and having six six-team divisions...but that would completely kill inter-conference play.
If we beat the Texans, we'd be in the playoffs, but the Texans would still be in as well. Pitt would be out and bitching about 10 wins not being enough, while an 8 win team got in. So the problem exists either way. I'm fine with 4 divisions, but I think playoffs should be seeded at the conference level regardless of divisional results.
We lost to the fucking Buffalo Bills when a win would have put us in. The Jets didn't deserve shit. Just stop. _
its funny that an actual issue turns into whining about how WE should have been in. id prefer 4, 8 team divisions all day. i dont know how the schedules would work out and take the top 3 from each division and have the bottom two play eachother, then have them play the division champ next round then the 2 division winners get to play in the conference championship. win your division in the regular season and you get a bye, but you HAVE to win it in the postseason too.
Actually that would be ideal. Six divisions of 6 teams would result in 10 in division games and the other six games would be on a rotating divisional basis. Every division would play every other division on a rotating five-year basis. It works almost perfectly to have two sets of games. But yes, I can see that some years you'd have a lot of in conference games no other years you'd have far fewer. Still, that happens now, it would just be a bit more extreme. OTOH, the NFL could finally expand the schedule to 17-18 games to accommodate this larger league and reduce or scrap pre-season. In fact, this would allow for the league to earn a lot more money. I'm surprised they haven't pounced on this idea!
