Greg S Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 Will it be just for this year because of the virus or will this be a permanent change? I personally would prefer they keep the playoffs the same. 12 teams 6 from each conference. I am also not a fan of a 17 game regular season that they want next year. How does that even work with who gets the extra home game? Just keep it a 16 game season in my meaningless opinion.
PromoTheRobot Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 19 minutes ago, Greg S said: Will it be just for this year because of the virus or will this be a permanent change? I personally would prefer they keep the playoffs the same. 12 teams 6 from each conference. I am also not a fan of a 17 game regular season that they want next year. How does that even work with who gets the extra home game? Just keep it a 16 game season in my meaningless opinion. It's only in case the season gets cut short.
Greg S Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: It's only in case the season gets cut short. Similar to what the NHL did when the regular season got cut short. They added those "playoff qualifier" rounds to see who gets in to play in Rd 1 of the playoffs. 1
TheFunPolice Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 Have any games been moved lately? It seems like after the initial flurry things settled down.
Sherlock Holmes Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 14 hours ago, Johnnycage46 said: An outside shot attempt to make sure the Pats get into the 8 seed lol???? If they lose out they will let everybody with 2 wins in! 1
loyal2dagame Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 13 hours ago, djp14150 said: The reason behind this is a good team has a game cancelled due to Covid, not their fsult, thrn they sit a half game out of7 th place WC spot. Vert der ferk?
Straight Hucklebuck Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 16 hours ago, BillsMafi$ said: Per Chris Mortenson depending on how the rest of the season goes with Covid, they could add another playoff team and no one will get a bye Just continue to water the product down. It was fine the way it was. Come and see the 7-9 Cleveland Browns take on the 8-8 Miami Dolphins. And later tonight, the 7-9 Detroit Lions go against the 7-9 Carolina Panthers.
PromoTheRobot Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 2 hours ago, MJS said: Why? The same reason every other league did the same. You end the season early and teams "in the hunt" complain they got gypped. This only happens if the season gets shortened by a big Covid outbreak ONE MORE TIME: This only happens if the season gets shortened by Covid!!
Greg S Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Straight Hucklebuck said: Just continue to water the product down. It was fine the way it was. Come and see the 7-9 Cleveland Browns take on the 8-8 Miami Dolphins. And later tonight, the 7-9 Detroit Lions go against the 7-9 Carolina Panthers. It's embarrassing enough that the NFCE will have a playoff team. I don't like expanding the playoffs for the same reason you just mentioned.
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said: The same reason every other league did the same. You end the season early and teams "in the hunt" complain they got gypped. This only happens if the season gets shortened by a big Covid outbreak ONE MORE TIME: This only happens if the season gets shortened by Covid!! and games are “canceled” imo of you can’t control your players from being safe you don’t deserve special circumstances to possibly aid their season
djp14150 Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 52 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said: and games are “canceled” imo of you can’t control your players from being safe you don’t deserve special circumstances to possibly aid their season What about buffalo vs titans and they cancelled the game and say ftsoa thry missed the playoffs by a half game bring 9-6 vs a 10-6 team they would have broken the tie by winning and using the tiebreaker edge?
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 3, 2020 Posted November 3, 2020 52 minutes ago, djp14150 said: What about buffalo vs titans and they cancelled the game and say ftsoa thry missed the playoffs by a half game bring 9-6 vs a 10-6 team they would have broken the tie by winning and using the tiebreaker edge? Fair point. My point was to not give a covid infected team an advantage. When it comes to seeding — They could just reward the Non Covid infected team .5 games. 1
ProcessAccepted Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 On 11/2/2020 at 10:22 PM, Warcodered said: Isn't this just in case they cut the regular season short? That's the rational alright. But if you are cutting the season short it's because too many players caught the covid. Letting half the league into the playoffs makes it more about luck (not catching covid) than being the best team in the league. Plus I's hate the NFL to decide that they like the extra revenues of more playoff games and make it permanent.
Metal Man Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 On 11/3/2020 at 8:36 AM, Greg S said: Will it be just for this year because of the virus or will this be a permanent change? I personally would prefer they keep the playoffs the same. 12 teams 6 from each conference. I am also not a fan of a 17 game regular season that they want next year. How does that even work with who gets the extra home game? Just keep it a 16 game season in my meaningless opinion. On 11/3/2020 at 8:57 AM, PromoTheRobot said: It's only in case the season gets cut short. I get the 8th team per conference is only if they have to add a week 18 or cut games completely but I thought the 7th team per conference was being added this year regardless of the pandemic and would be the norm going forward?
PromoTheRobot Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Metal Man said: I get the 8th team per conference is only if they have to add a week 18 or cut games completely but I thought the 7th team per conference was being added this year regardless of the pandemic and would be the norm going forward? Correct. The NFL has adopted a 14-team playoff field with only the #1 seed in each conference getting a bye.
djp14150 Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 19 hours ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said: Fair point. My point was to not give a covid infected team an advantage. When it comes to seeding — They could just reward the Non Covid infected team .5 games. If they fo thst, why not reward all nfl teams 0.5 W if they go to OT thrn winner gets an extra 0.5W. here is a better scenario to illustrate it... say standing at th end of year look like this NE 11-5 BUF 9-6 PIT 11-5 BAL 11-5 TEN 10-5 IND 10-6. Indy has division tie breaker on TEN KC 13-3 LV 10-6 BUF at TEN game postponed. buffalo us outside in spot 8. if they made up the game and buffalo won they would be WC 6 by beating both TEN and LV for tiebreaker in WC seeding. IND gets division and WC 7 would be decide by TEN vs LV tienreaker
CIrvine Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 They will change it so that all 32 teams make the playoffs and then hold a lottery for the draft which New England wins.
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 2 hours ago, djp14150 said: If they fo thst, why not reward all nfl teams 0.5 W if they go to OT thrn winner gets an extra 0.5W. here is a better scenario to illustrate it... say standing at th end of year look like this Say this The Bills win the division and at worst get the 4th seed.
co_springs_billsfan Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 On 11/2/2020 at 5:14 PM, Johnnycage46 said: An outside shot attempt to make sure the Pats get into the 8 seed lol???? They do this I better not lose my pre season bet of the Pats* to miss the playoffs 1
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