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mornelithe on 02 October 2015
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MTZehvor said:
Arkaign said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/10/02/the-nfl-is-still-likely-to-expand-its-playoffs-but-no-one-now-seems-to-know-when/

This really needs to happen, it's a no-brainer (more ticket sales for the teams, more ad revenue).

Make preseason 3 games instead of 4, and have 6 playoff games week 1 postseason instead of 4, etc.

I guess the only possible complaint might be from teams that have little chance of seeing the playoffs and like the extra sales of week 4 preseason? That's really reaching though.

I think this just shows how even a great idea is terribly difficult to get through the quagmire of the modern NFL though. We get weird things like the longer extra point attempt (who cares even though it doesn't bother me), but something like this is just floating in the ether for a while yet.

Personally, I'd argue against postseason expansion. Twelve teams is plenty. If anything, what they should do is put in some requirement stating that you must have a winning record to make the postseason. That I'd be fine with. Someone like Houston or Kansas City last year did not deserve to be in the postseason. I don't think we should take the byes away from the 2 seeds just to allow a few more mediocre teams into the playoffs.

I have no problem with getting rid of the preseason game, though. And, really, the NFL doesn't need anything to make up the lost revenue. A $7.2 billion dollar per year league can afford to lose a single preseason game.

If there were more good teams, I might actually be inclined to agree with a post-season expansion.  The problem is it's not uncommon lately for bad teams to make the playoffs.  That speaks more to an issue w/ talent, than it does anything else.  Frankly, why not put that investment into athletics programs to groom more young stars.  Seems like a logical idea to me.