Jones may be retained but not because of your equation. When revenue goes up, players agents will simply demand more.....as they should.

Adds randomness to who the champion is. Less likely for the best team to actually win the championship.

Yeah, but under the old system it was “get a top two seed, it’s that simple.”

Fewer byes for great teams=more playoff games=more chances to get upset.

Do you think the Patriots would’ve been as successful over these last couple decades if only 1 team got a bye? They were the 2 an awful lot as well.

Just the opposite. Now the 1 seeds have an easier path to the SB.

Who gives a **** tbh. We got Mahomes

Actually it probably helps the odds of the one seed, since it increases the odds that the two seed will get knocked off before the conference championship.

I guess the positive is that it will force this team to stay focused on every game. I felt like the team was pretty unfocused against Detroit and Tennessee during the regular season. They squeaked past the Lions in one of the ugliest wins you'll ever see. And the sloppy lack of focus bit them in the butt in Nashville.

Agreed.

I don't remember many complaints about the way the current playoffs are setup. Only complaints you hear are how Pats always have an easy road to the the playoffs. this doesn't address that at all.

Correct.

If we get the one we can pretty much punch our ticket.

Anything else, even the 2, and it’s going to be MUCH harder than it ever has been before.

It figures that right when the Patriots get bad and the Chiefs get good, they take away a bye and add an extra playoff team. Good way to protect the Pats’ records.

I’m sure rosters are expanded or the players would never have agreed.

What would make it really interesting if every player had to sit out at least one game every season when healthy. Lots of intrigue when to sit your best players. Would teams find that offensive to them and play harder?

yep, the #1 seed will have a huge advantage. Every regular season game will matter more.

The total revenue generates by the extra game should be around 6%.

At 48% the players receive 3% per game (48% divided by 16 games).

At 48.5 the players receive 2.85% per game (48.5% divided by 17 games).

NFL is just a money grab and this new change is stupid. So...44% of the league makes the playoffs? Only a matter of time before we see a 6-10 team hosting a playoff game. But hey, it’s more revenue for the league so it must be done.

I'm not worried about it.

So it would've been this year:

Ravens Bye
Chiefs vs Steelers
Patriots vs Titans
Texans vs Bills

Ravens vs Titans
Chiefs vs Texans

Chiefs vs Titans

Chiefs win the Super Bowl... nothing changes. It makes the 2 seed play on Wild Card weekend but have no difference in how the playoffs actually plays out unless the 7 seed beats the 2 seed at home... It also makes it to where the Chiefs play on more game to possibly get hurt against the dirty Steelers... Thanks NFL. It's just more money for the owners, that's all it is.

Dude.

Are you paying attention?

This new CBA is almost tailor made for our upcoming dynasty.

Huge expanded cap
Separate QB cap that limits the impact of QB salary
Only the top team gets a bye

Be excited about this stuff.

This!

Does anyone have that Demonpenz MS Paint picture of the elephant spewing shit everywhere? Please post it if you do, TIA.

Does the elephant represent Chiefsplanet or the NFL?

They haven’t said anything about a QB cap being legit?

I don't like it. Almost half the league making the playoffs? The playoffs should be special. The top teams going at it and all that. Not the slightly-above-mediocre teams squeaking in.

I dislike cutting to one bye team, even if that helps us for the foreseeable future. The #1 seed already has a big advantage with home field. This system will produce more meaningless games between slightly above average teams while the #1 seed sits and rests.

Yeah, that's the part I hate the most. I can see it screwing us over as much as helping us. Would have forced us to play three games this year, which I think we would have still won... but another game's worth of injury risk and fatigue could easily screw everything up.

Something like almost 90% of Super Bowl participants were 1 and 2 seeds. It’s a huge advantage.

A 2 seed should not be punished like this. One team getting the top seed is horrible for the playoff format. It’s a weak structure that gives power to 14% of the field instead of 33%.

At the same time, I think we’re going to see an uptick in teams that sit starters for the final week. More spots means more teams will be locked into the tournament, and I think that’s going to lead to more of those scenarios where coaches elect to prioritize rest over seeding — especially since there’s only one bye to earn.

Optics are bad with owners doing a money grab while talking out of the other side of their mouth about player safety. So tired of sports being diluted by monetary incentives.

Schefter on ESPN shilling for the league, like everybody wants this shit.

GTFOH

I see Roger hung out at his friend Rob’s house this week.

Absolutely this.

The CBA changes would be pitch-perfect for the Chiefs to have a dynasty capable team. Jones, Watkins and about improved IOL and LB core is a team dominant enough to almost even out the odds with an added game in the playoffs.

Would there be a record Mahomes wouldn’t obliterate under this format?

I hate the playoff changes, btw - but with Mahomes who even cares.

Adding games and further randomizing the playoffs is not good for any Chiefs dynasty (and that's exactly what this move does). Wasn't speaking on the rest of the CBA.

Teams are going to have to come to a rested Arrowhead every year with Andy having 2 weeks to prepare for them.

Dynasty time, baby.

Teams could still very easily lock themselves into the 2 seed before the final game and then they are just going to make it their own bye week by resting starters. So I think that aspect of it is going to level out somewhat many times.

That’s not a guarantee by any means and this year proves that. We were lucky.

Lucky the Dolphins beat the Patriots. Lucky that Pat was not placed on IR after his knee was turned sideways.

Injuries happen all the time and a lot of that is pure luck. Last year we were lucky. This year it was the Ravens who didn’t have any major injuries.

Playing another game is another opportunity for more injuries. If the players are smart, they’ll demand a 2nd bye week be added to the regular season.

These players bodies go through a ton and more players are retiring early. Adding more games does nothing for the good of the league except put money in owners pockets.

Yep. Dumb. 7 teams making the playoffs is too many. It cheapens it IMO.

This is a two-sided coin IMHO.

We can say we were lucky that Miami won, that Pat’s injury wasn’t worse... but I can just as easily say that other teams were lucky he (and our other stars) were hurt and missed games to begin with. Those injuries to star players directly correlated to 3 of our losses.

I could also say we were unlucky to deal with all of that, including Mahomes missing 2 games. Most teams still didn’t have the injury misfortune the Chiefs had — we were just fortunate enough to have our guys when it mattered most (outside of Jones and his freak calf injury—bad luck).

That’s what sucks about this. We don’t get injured like we were then we are the top seed.

I hate it that only one team gets a bye. It’s too big of an advantage and one seed is usually due to luck.

You’re placing the 2 seed in the same boat as a 7 seed. A 14-3 team could be playing 3 games like a 9-7 team in this system.

Hate hate hate it. The format was damn near perfect and they ****ed it up.

The chances of getting a #1 seed every year are a lot less likely than getting a top 2 seed every year. There's no question that this change hurts the top teams like the Chiefs/Ravens and is better for the mediocre ones.

Yeo. For the love of $$$.

One team in both the NFC & AFC, or just one team total from both?

Yep. They'll fix it when 8 teams get in. :shake:

My thoughts exactly. And it's been great since 2002.

I hate both proposals.

Top seed in each conference so two teams total.

Well. Looks like it's a final decision. I don't care as of now

If you want an extra playoff game, then let 8 teams in and keep the top two get a bye.

Makes sense that they waited till year 101 to do this.
A new cycle

Half the league making the playoffs seems too much.

This may sound like a dumb question, but how would that bracket work?

6 teams play the first week and 3 win and 2 byes...

Maybe all 4 division winners get a bye and then the next 4 best records get in and fight amongst themselves for the right to play the division winners?

I kinda like that...

league did it so they can get Raiders in the playoffs with the move to Vegas, Among other reasons of course

This is about money and nothing else. Watering down the playoffs. Greedyass owners.

in part, you can blame legal gambling. This gives them so much more leverage to screw people with lower seeds winning early rounds, like The Titans this last year.
watered down? makes it beefier and more fun actually. And like you said, Money

One team from both. The nfc and afc seed get byes.

It’s terrible. Either get rid of them completely or keep the current format,

We have the best QB and best team. How is that horrible for us?

Yep, keep fixing it until it is broke. :(


I blame King Karl for this, he was always pushing for more teams in the playoffs.

You’d still end up eventually with an odd number of teams. There would be 2 winners from the WC round but 4 division winners. There would need to be 12 playoff teams per conference to be able to award all division winners a bye.

This makes my head hurt. Sigh...

What else is new. Schefter has always been a shill for the league. Let's be honest this is good for ESPN as well as it's more NFL playoff inventory for them to get their hands on.

Fans: No one can **** up the NFL playoffs, it's perfect.

NFL: Hold my spritzer

Mahomes gets $200 million, DAX, Cousins, JimmyG gets $30 million, Rodgers, Russell getting $35 million etc.


People in Arrowhead and other NFL stadiums arn't paying for those salaries, TV is. It's just the reality. The players are going along with it or it wouldn't be happening. They are making a money grab too.


In my middle class life, I've lived in different cities temporarily because someone paid me enough money to make it worth my time. Cant fault either side here. Everyone involved in this decision is making a selfish decisions that benefit themselves. This is our culture of capitalism.

Nascar anybody?

Who the **** knows. Both ideas are dumb.

You can't??!? It eliminates two teams from getting a bye and dilutes the regular season. If these guys are going to bash their brains in, the regular season should mean something. We wouldn't even have got a bye this post season...

We had that this year and we wouldn't have gotten a bye based on the new format. Plus, you can be the #2 seed just based on being unlucky or having to face the toughest schedule. Additionally some teams are going to get an one more home game than the rest of them. Total bullshit.

I do not see players adding 1-2 more games.

I am fully on their side.

**** the owners.

A $5 BILLION raise for the players seems to have them rethinking that position.

The extra playoff game and loss of a 2 seed bye is bullshit. Some dog shit team that got an easy schedule is going to slide into the playoffs on regular basis.

Flipping the last worthless preseason game to the regular season seems logical, if the rosters get adjusted.

I care more about the cap and if there is a qb exemption though. Any info on that yet?

I'm not sure legal gambling has much to do w it. There's always going to be plenty of idiots blowing money on gambling. I dont think that has much to do w it.

So one team plays a strength of schedule of say .560 and the other plays a SOS at .445 and the one who plays 8 weak teams gets the top seed at #1.

Yeah, I'm no fan of this on any level. I think the amount of games and structure was perfect.


Baseball Playoffs: Too little
Hockey and NBA: too many
NFL: WAS just perfect

Goodall is the Vince McMahon of the NFL

Has nothing to do with gambling. Has more to do with adding games with my TV/streaming revenue.

When the NFL sanctions it and gets a cut it will. Already talk of moving books inside of stadiums.

Another point:

There are 15 playoff games including the Super Bowl. Add two playoff games.

Imagine if you are running a business and something guaranteed you a 13% (!!!!) increase in revenue for the month, and you already had the facilities and employees to do it.......

The more I think about it the more it stinks. They should just not give bye's and let 8 teams\conference in otherwise the #1 seed is going to have a such a incredible advantage.

First round would be:

7@2
6@3
5@4

Lets say 7 upsets 2 and both 3 and 4 take care of business then the 2nd round looks like:

7@1
4@3

If 7 pulls a '19 Titans and 3 beats 4 then 3 has homefield in the Conference Championship.

Not bad actually. Sometimes teams get hot late after a piss poor start but fall just shy of the playoffs due to tiebreakers. With this setup, that 7th seed could potentially be the most dangerous team in the playoffs.

Im sure it played a part but i dont think a huge one.. Revenue from NFL playoff games is going to mainly come from playoff tickets sold and television - not sports gambling.

If they are going to change it, then make a wholesale change.

Top 8 teams get in by record. Top 2 teams choose who they play in round one.

That might happen once every decade or so but let’s be honest, more often than not that 7 seed is gonna get throttled.

Chiefs hosting the Steelers this year? Would have been a bloodbath.

Yep. Zero percent chance that a dude named Duck leads that team to a playoff win.

How in the hell can you add a team and take away a bye. Stupid.

Yeah - just how do the playoffs stack up with 7 teams this year?

BYE
1. Ravens

Wild Card

2. Chiefs 35
7. Steelers 7

3. Patriots 13
6. Titans 14

4. Texans 22
5. Bills 19

Which would lead to the same result. Yes, the risk is that the Chiefs would have sustained a major injury against the Steelers and that would change the overall outcome, but idk. I think a lot of the worry we have is through the lens of the 90's playoff losses and our losses with Alex Smith, where our QB would be called to win the game against a mediocre team - but Patrick is just going to deliver - often delivering before a game winning drive is necessary.

If the trade is that we keep Jones, Watkins, and get to load up at IOL and LB? Gosh, I don't know - it's almost worth it. Keeping that defense respectable puts us in dynasty potential. I'd still prefer we stick to the status quo, though.

This new format will benefit teams like the Chargers, Faders, and Donks- who won't be winning the division for a decade. They are average teams with average QB's, and average records. Not good enough to get a Wild Card, but now get a free pass to the show.

I don't like it. This is why you play the regular season.