14 Team 4 Week NFL Playoff Schedule
Presently, the NFL playoffs has twelve teams playing a total of 11 games in five
weeks, where there is generally 1 additional week between the Super Bowl &
Conference Championship Games . The eleven playoff games include: Four
Wild Card Round games, Four Division Round games, Two Championship games that
conclude with One Super Bowl match-up. Two teams in each conference are
awarded a 1st round bye based upon their seeding, which is an enormous
advantage, having to play one less game to go along with an additional week of
rest. It doesn't guarantee your ticket to play in the Super Bowl but it
can & does award playing a weakened schedule, or worse yet a weakened
division, to achieve a higher seeding. In short, the NFL's potential for inbreeding
& meddling has to come to an abrupt end.
Based upon recent history of regular season results,
the league is now entertaining adding one additional team from each conference
to be able to contend for an opportunity to compete for that Super Bowl
Championship in the NFL's yearly playoff tournament. Getting two
additional franchises an additional shot at the NFL's biggest prize can't be a
bad idea as the playoff field can only be a be purely wholesome endeavor.
However, to be direct, what consumers want is to consume as much playoff sudden
death level football as they can pound down their gullets & that is exactly
what advertisers see as advantageous to their cause. For all involved,
they are ravenous for it. By adding two additional playoff teams each
year, along with a new proposed format would do wonders for this league.
The below listed format increases the number of playoff games from eleven games
to fourteen games, for the fourteen teams & it does it within the same
playoff format of four playoff contests over the NFL present five week playoff
window.
It is now high time that the NFL clean up its act be eliminating first round
byes. Any athlete worth his salt knows that byes that are awarded in the
winners bracket of any tournament format is nothing more than a license to
steal. The intent is to level the playing field between all 32 franchises,
eliminating the possibility of awarding favorable seeding ... and favorable
outcomes through byes ... based upon weak regular season scheduling or weakened
divisions resulting from franchise dynasties. Dynasties serve ... and are
the master of ... only one thing ... one particular
franchise.
When you do decide to award a regular season outcome from NFL seeding ... that
reward must be reasonable ... not overwhelming & self serving. The
proposed new playoff format will award & guarantee the NFL's overall
#1 seed of the regular season access to the 2nd round of the playoffs.
Where Round 2 of the playoff, also known as "Octo-Knock-Tow", the
highest seed that lost in the first round, or first week of the playoffs, gets
to move onto the 2nd week of the playoffs. Call it a 2nd chance at redemption
based upon what could have been a stellar season.
Imagine how many fans would salivate at a 2nd chance after getting duped
on a last second field goal, or a missed field goal, or some sort of sour play
that ruined a season. But alas, it will only be for one franchise that
earned it through regular season play.
The Viking Ghost Writer
http://MyVikingBlood.org
Date: March 20, 2020
