I am all for expanding the playoffs.
1. Make the #1 seed worth more, it gets the only bye week.
2. One more wild card opens up lots of interesting possibilities.
3. It's just more good football. Nothing wrong with more good football.
NFL seasons are already so short and go by so fast. It's not like the NBA or NHL where pretty much half the league makes it after 82 game looooong seasons. One early injury or bad call can mean a loss in the NFL and that one loss could be the difference in winning your division and making the playoffs, or not winning it and not getting a wild card.
I don't buy into the idea that division winners should meet certain criteria outside of winning the division to qualify either. Not all divisions are created equal. Look at the gutter trash of division opponents New England has had most of recent history. Or the Colts now. Compare that to what the NFC West was 2-3 years ago. Those teams beat the hell out of each other and while the 49ers and Seahawks were good enough to go outside the division and win enough games to get 11-12 wins a year, what if there was a 7 or 8 win team winning that tough division? They get left out because some 9 or 10 win team who has a last place schedule won more games? Nah.
2013 Cardinals could have made some noise in the playoffs. Not only that but there are a lot of 8/9 win teams late in the year who would still be in it and would make a lot more games a lot more interesting. Look at baseball. Right now the Texas Rangers are playing the Angels who under old rules would be eliminated with nothing to play for. But now there is the additional WC spot per league, so the Angels aren't out, so now it makes this last 4 game series even more exciting. Same with the Twins, and Astros. It affects a lot of games.
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