Number of Playoff Teams-NFL

[BishopMVP]

Reading the Boston Globe this Sunday, it said that the Patriots were going to submit a proposal at the owners meeting in March to expand the playoffs to 14 teams. Do you agree/disagree with this? Is another wild card necessary when you have so many guaranteed spots?

[sabotai]

No, it's not. It's overkill, imo. The season has to count for something. In fact, adding another wildcard team...how would that effect the playoffs?

[Kodos]

No need to water down the playoff field. Stay at 12.

[BishopMVP]

Sabotai - It was only a little line in one of the notes sections, didn't go into detail. I would assume that then only 1 team in each conference would get a bye.

[McSweeny]

why not go world cup style and have all the teams in? do group play in the first round and have each team play 2 games a week

[tucker342]

I love how the NFL has it set up, it adds so much pressure to the final games. You also don't want the playoffs to drag on for to long.

[EagleFan]

Originally posted by McSweeny
why not go world cup style and have all the teams in? do group play in the first round and have each team play 2 games a week

They do group play. It's called the regular season. You wouldn't happen to be a Bengals fan just trying to find a way to get them into the playoffs?

[Kodos]

If everyone gets in, why even bother with a regular season?

[Darkiller]

6 teams getting Playoff births out of 16 makes it a ratio of 0.375 against 0.437 if there are 7 qualifiers in a conference.

Basically I wouldn't be "against" a 7th team but 6 is fine too : it's elitist and that makes the run-for-the-playoffs quite a race to watch.