Jesus, I had to turn around to make sure you weren't standing there.

Say a really good division fights it out to the death and the winner ends up 8-8. That doesn't necessarily mean the division sucks. Plus there are plenty of crappy teams that make the playoffs at 10-6 (2010 Chiefs).

Also I don't see much reason for having divisions in your scenario. Just AFC/NFC conferences would do.

No. It's perfectly fine the way it is...so they'll probably change it.

There's been some talking of adding a couple more playoff teams to the mix. It will probably happen eventually.

IMO the team with a better record than a playoff team that either is missing the playoffs (Titans) or has to go on the road should have a choice of staying put and retaining their draft picks or giving the playoff team some of their draft picks and assume their spot.

For example, let's Tenn could assume Denver's spot if they gave Denver their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks this year (maybe not that much but a significant COST needs to be involved) OR

In the Pittsburgh scenerio give the Steelers the option of sacrificing the first 2 draft picks to DEN for the right to host the game.

Possible rules under this systems

The option SOLELY rests with the team having the better record getting screwed (for example Denver could not give up its playoff spor to get the picks)

Decisions must be made prior to week 17 games.

what if the division a team plays in is especially tough and because of that they have a less than sparkling record

meh, they should have thought of this when they added two divisions. the second they change it to prevent a 8-8 division winner from playing at home they'll wind up having a 8-8 wildcard playing at home (against a 7-9 division winner prolly) and we'll have to have the discussion All Over Again.

it is what is.

My definition of a tough division is where 2+ teams have 10+ wins and the 3rd place team usually has a pretty good record also (think AFC North). A division that sees its top 3 teams finish 8-8 is not a tough division.

Ooooh. Served.

better than top 3 teams finishing 7-9 or worse like the NFC West last year.

Not disagreeing our division sucked ball This Year though.

What??????????????????

No.

Why should you change it? The Ravens won the Super Bowl playing three on the road...The Chiefs won the Super Bowl playing two on the road. Good teams that play well can win on the road...home teams the under perform lose at home. That's why you play the game...

Yeah I'm wondering if anyone else here has ever gotten the "Intense angry stare" from Rain Man.

No...

It is fair this way...its a practically perfect system...dont **** with it unless you NEED to.

This. It's called winning the division. Did the Steelers win theirs?