NFL changing playoff format

black_floyd said
Doesn't the league already have enough bottom feeders? Also, the last time the league added more than two teams (via true expansion, not absorption from rival leagues) was 1933 so it's pretty unlikely to see even a 4-team expansion unless it were two separate 2-team expansions spaced at least a decade apart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_National_Football_League

SuperKid said
At this point quality of play is way down the list of importance for this league (we saw that with the awful Officiating fiasco they let ensure this season with the challenging of PI)

The #1, #2, #3 priorities for this group of NFL Ownership is Cashflow $$$, they can and will double the league size if it brings in more Revenue for them. (player Safety, and quality of play be damned it's all dollar signs)

Let me clarify my post. Although the last part of the post was talking about what I think the NFL will do (based on precedent), the first part was just me straight up saying that we have enough bad teams already so why would you want an even more watered-down product, not whether or not I think the league would do it since I agree with you that money fuels their every decision with zero regard for its legacy.

SuperKid said
Just a thought but if this is the way the league is going, by extending the regular season while increasing the amount of play off teams. How long until we see NBA style Load management be implemented in the NFL?

Think about it by Week 15 you've already got a bunch of guys banged up, say the #1 seed in your conference is clinched already.. what's to stop teams from just resting their key stars for the last 3-4 weeks of the regular season, or playing them sparingly to get 1-2 series of reps and just preserve them for the playoffs if the best you can do is a 4-7 seed.

These could be some of the "unintended consequences" of adding regular season games, and diluting the Playoff pool.

Let's take it a step further and make each playoff round a best of seven. Not seven games though cuz that would take too long. Both teams will play one 15 minute quarter against each other every two days.