[Discuss Thrower]

I still think it's stupid that a league record is used to determine two conference playoffs with preference assigned to division winners, at least according to my logic.

Using the rules as they are today, the playoff field should be the top twelve teams of the league seeded according to standing regardless of conference or division. Because as we saw last year KC "won" the division by virtue of a 10-6 league record with a losing record against the division. Don't care if I get flamed for this as I did earlier this season; shit should be consistent. If you want to assign playoff berths by division for the sake of legacy, fine. But at least stipulate you have a winning league record with a non-losing division record if you want to keep the current system in effect.

But honestly I think it should be a true conference playoff to determine who goes to the Superbowl. In this system you reward teams for actually beating conference opponents and negate the effect of a team or teams from smacking around a weak-ass non-conference division to inflate their record... Kind of like what KC did last year.
Addendum: To back up my thoughts on conference record determining playoffs: If the NFL used the system I've proscribed, KC goes to the playoffs in 2010 as the 6th seed, doesn't go in 2006, but is in 2005 over the Patriots for winning two more conference games.