Whatever...this is my suggested playoff alteration.

[TheFunPolice]

it already feels like the last few weeks of the season are meaningless 

 

I'm excited to see a slate of NFL games that actually matter, everyone plays their best players and the coaches make a game plan and everything 

[JP51]

How about 8 teams... 

 

Division Winners get bye

 

true WC round 8-5 and 6-7 

 

division round lowest WC winning seed  seed plays 1 2nd lowest 2 and 3/4 Division winners play each other. 

Edited 17 hours ago by JP51

[Virgil]

2 hours ago, Charles Romes said:

The only problem with 6 NFL playoff teams is that the 3rd wild card is almost always a significantly better team than the fourth division winner.  They would have to go back to three divisions to make it all make sense, or award playoffs to only the top 3 division winners. 

 

Yes, but if they adjust to division winners are only guaranteed a playoff spot and not a certain seeding, then that 4th division winner could end up being the 6th seed.  But this is also why I would like to see them get rid of the divisions.  In such a small season, even with 18 games, I see no reason to play a team twice. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

I won't begin to try to engineer the mechanics of it, but no more tanking.  A bottom tier tournament for teams to sort out draft order; better performance in the losers' playoffs results in a higher (better) draft pick.

 

And I imagine there'll be a whole lot of finagling by teams in the hunt for either the winners or losers playoffs.

[Taro Nimbus]

Anything to get Joe Burrow and the Bengals in the playoffs right?!   

[Doc Brown]

I think they'll keep the current format until TV ratings fall.  If you get to eight teams the importance of the regular season diminishes.  I think seven is the sweet spot for playoff teams.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Since the subject came up in the 'burnt bar' thread in Off The Wall, what say they spin the wheel from Cassidy's?  "Freddy's Special!  Freddy's Special!"

[Big Turk]

Giving a team 2 weeks off is not a benefit, it's a detractor.