Congrats to your 5-8-1 first place Carolina Panthers!

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Originally Posted by ChiefsChoke010414

The Panthers have had a terrible year. The kind of year that gets coaches fired and QB's benched. When you're 5-8-1, your'e not very good.

Instead, if the playoffs started today, they'd get to host a playoff game. That's why this system needs changing.

This season is an extreme example, but I'll give you an example of a scenario that isn't extreme. If the Panthers were 9-7, and someone else were 10-6, and both teams were in the top 6 and deserved to be in the playoffs, I'd still have the Panthers going on the road to face the 10-6 team, even if the Panthers won their division. Instead, under the current format, the Panthers would host the game. This kind of thing happens every season, where a division winner hosts a game against a team with a better record than them. It should never happen.

I agree - unless maybe if they played and during the regular season and lost head-to- head, but for consistency sake you have to draw the line somewhere, and your way does that.