NFl division formating - 10 years and still going

[jake33]

2002 was the 1st year the NFL realigned and made 8 divisions instead of 6. In those 10 years, 7 years had a team(s) that were 9-7 or worse declared division champions and allowed to host a home playoff game. The obvious one was the 2010 7-9 Seahawks hosting the 11-5 Saints, also the 10-6 Buccaneres who had 42% more wins than Seattle were left out of the playoffs.

Even from the get go, I hated the new relaignment because of the flaw. To me, I would like the NFL to drop playing nonconfernce games, each team play each team in the conference 1 time and then playing a rivalry team twice. Each year, switch who is home and who is road, jsut like college. Take the top teams and give out the seeds that way. It is still flawed, but much better than the current format. The issue is of coarse money, where the NFL wants more teams to have something to play for at the end of the season. I can't wait for a 6-10 division championship team to host a 13-3 team in the first round (it is mathmatically possible), maybe then the NFL should make a change.

At the very least the NFL should change that a team with 3 or more wins should be allowed to host the playoff game.

The NFL said if last year's Seahawks game was a trend they would loo into it. Isn't one occurance enough?

Enjoy the Broncos hosting the Steelers next weekend, ridiculous.

[earlywynnfan]

I can't believe the majority of the country isn't complaining about the stranglehold the Browns have on Super Bowl trophies!!

Oh, wait...


How can we realign the divisions so a 4-12 team from Cleveland can make the playoffs?

Ken
earlywynnfan5@hotmail.com

[packerfan]

How about the college bowl games that feature the 6-6 or 6-7 teams? Who wants to watch those teams? It's like being on the Dean's list with a 2.0 average. Congratulations son, your only avaerage!

[genius]

Nothing new here, prior to 1990 a 9-win-or-less division winner happened almost every year.

1978--Vikings 8-7-1
1979--Rams 9-7 (NFC Champs)
1980--Vikings 9-7
1981--Bucs 9-7
1982--Strike year (Browns make playoffs 4-5)
1983--Lions 9-7
1984--Steelers 9-7
1985--Browns 8-8
1987--Colts 9-6
1988--Seahawks 9-7
1989--Bills 9-7, Browns 9-6-1
1990--Bengals 9-7
1999--Seahawks 9-7

[jake33]

From 1991-2001, it corrected itself and there were 2 strike shorted seasons in the 1980's. I don't think in the next deacade the 4-division format per conference is going to right itself, as it happened in the 1990's

[legaleagle92481]

I think the format works. If you win your division thats the perk. Each division has its ups and downs year after year. A team like the Giants only had nine wins but they played the Packers, Saints, 49ers, Patriots, Eagles (twice), Cowboys (twice), Cardinals, Jets and Seahawks. All of those teams finished .500 or better. So alot goes into a record and all wins are not created equal. The Texans won 10 games 4th best in the AFC and only played 8 teams that were .500 or better.