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Goddell wants more playoff teams
Posted on 1/9/14 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 1/9/14 at 7:59 pm
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Jerry Approves
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So now, Goodell and the owners are trying a different tack, one that might be more attractive to NFL fans — the idea of expanding the playoffs with two more teams in each conference.
“That is under serious consideration,” Goodell said in a Tuesday interview at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. “One of the great things about the NFL other than it’s unscripted is that every team starts the season with hope.”
Well, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones certainly thinks so. His team has finished each of the last three seasons at 8-8 and hasn’t made a postseason since 2009, so that’s a lot of residual embarrassment and missed ancillary income.
“From the standpoint of looking at how exciting it is for a city or a community to be involved in the playoffs and the fact that you can have a team that might have literally operated at .500 or in that area … you can have that team win the Super Bowl,” Jones said last Friday on Dallas radio station 105.3 The Fan. “That makes a big case for adding a couple of more cities or communities that have NFL teams to the playoffs.”
Goodell mentioned that 13 of 16 games had playoff implications in the final week of the regular season, which was partially the result of the league’s wise decision to point the last few weeks of every season’s schedule in a more divisional direction. The next step, he said, will be to keep that competition compelling, even if more teams would wrap up playoff berths and first-round byes earlier.
“It’s something that the competition committee looked at last year and thinks there are some real benefits from a competitive standpoint. They’re going to study some aspects of that because when would those games occur and one team would get a bye in each conference and you’d have six games on the weekend. So would you have three on Saturday, and three on Sunday? Or do you get one on Friday and two on Saturday and two on Sunday and one on Monday? I think those are the kinds of things we want to evaluate.”
Jerry Approves
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:01 pm to LosLobos111
Our "everyone gets a trophy" society we live in. Pathetic.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:01 pm to LosLobos111
I'm pretty sure they were only looking to add 2 teams total, one in each conference.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:01 pm to LosLobos111
Of course he does. Sound business decision too.
More playoff teams => more games => more money.
More playoff teams => more games => more money.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:02 pm to Urban OhiO
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Our "everyone gets a trophy" society we live in. Pathetic.
Ummm, that's not what this is about.
It's about $$$.
Idiot.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:04 pm to KosmoCramer
Never said it wasn't about money dumbass. I'm complaining because they already put teams with losing records in the playoffs. Any other sports do that?
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:06 pm to LosLobos111
quote:
Goddell wants more$$$$
FIFY
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:07 pm to Urban OhiO
You act like that's a common occurrance. And even when it does in the NFL there are usually teams with better records than get left out, so they would be the ones making it in now.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:08 pm to LosLobos111
German playoff teams? I know Goodell wants to expand.
I kid, I kid, OP.
I kid, I kid, OP.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:09 pm to Urban OhiO
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Our "everyone gets a trophy" society we live in. Pathetic.
Lulz.
The NFL owns the playoffs and they make more $ with their business by doing this.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:10 pm to Urban OhiO
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Never said it wasn't about money dumbass. I'm complaining because they already put teams with losing records in the playoffs. Any other sports do that?
What does the Wildcard Trophy look like in the NFL?
I've never seen it.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:15 pm to Urban OhiO
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I'm complaining because they already put teams with losing records in the playoffs. Any other sports do that?
Yes
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:16 pm to LosLobos111
Goodell will not stop until he makes the game unwatchable. They have a good thing going in spite of him, not because of him. The out of country games, trying to expand the regular season (and now the playoffs), defenses can't touch anyone or else get fined, bounty-gate, etc.
It's like he has a high school city council-esque mandate to come up with something to alter just for the sake of doing it. IDK if it's ego or something else that drives this clown, but he has to stop or people will start to tune out.
It's like he has a high school city council-esque mandate to come up with something to alter just for the sake of doing it. IDK if it's ego or something else that drives this clown, but he has to stop or people will start to tune out.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:16 pm to LosLobos111
So is this on top of the two mentioned all last week?
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:17 pm to Urban OhiO
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Our "let's make as much money as possible without regard for anything else" society we live in. Pathetic.
FIFY
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:18 pm to LosLobos111
So a little under half the teams would get in?
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:19 pm to LosLobos111
I'm surprised at the outcry I've seen over this honestly. I don't mind it. If it's this or an 18 game schedule, this is infinitely better. Even still, less than half the teams in the league would make it.
Not to mention, it makes getting the #1 seed even more valuable as the only spot with a bye.
Not to mention, it makes getting the #1 seed even more valuable as the only spot with a bye.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:21 pm to Brettesaurus Rex
More $$$
Of course he does.
Of course he does.
Posted on 1/9/14 at 8:22 pm to Breadstick Gun
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Of course the owners that pay his salary do.
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