Odd, but the Raiders...

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Originally Posted by bowener

Give it up, it was a terrible idea.

What is probably going to happen is that Division winners will be guaranteed a playoff spot like usual, but they will seed the spots by W/L record... Thus the NFCW winner would be seeded last (if they have the worst record of the 6 NFC playoff teams). This will give teams that have locked up their own division incentive to win the rest of their games too (call this the anti-Indy rule). By winning the most games in your conference you guarantee the #1 seed for yourself.

Honestly, it makes too much damn sense, there is no reason it shouldn't have been done before... which also means the NFL will probably never do it.

I think this idea should be incorporated anyway. It's just silly to reward some 7-9 or 8-8 team with a home game. I'm just saying, they shouldn't be in the playoffs at all. Would people be more for my proposal if we lowered the restriction to 9-7? All rules are the same, except for times where a division winner is 8-8 or worse. Those teams are disqualified (call it a skunk rule, or whatever) and add another wildcard.

But yeah, seeding should be independent of division winner status.