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AFC Division Realignment?
Posted on 11/6/23 at 7:33 am
Posted on 11/6/23 at 7:33 am
Spin off of the AFC North conversation in the Bengals/Bills game thread and how brutal the AFC North is and always seems to be, it brings up the topic again...the NFL needs one more realignment to balance the AFC in my opinion. Move Baltimore to the East, Indianapolis to the North and Miami to the South. Seems like a pretty easy change. People from Baltimore consider themselves part of the East Coast and not the Midwest/North anyways. Nothing says the "South" like Indianapolis....
AFC NORTH
Cleveland (11-6)
Pittsburgh (10-7
Cincinnati (9-8)
Indianapolis
AFC SOUTH:
Houston
Jacksonville
Miami
Tennessee
AFC EAST:
Baltimore
Buffalo
New England
New York Jets
AFC WEST:
Denver
Kansas City
Los Angeles Chargers
Las Vegas
AFC NORTH
Cleveland (11-6)
Pittsburgh (10-7
Cincinnati (9-8)
Indianapolis
AFC SOUTH:
Houston
Jacksonville
Miami
Tennessee
AFC EAST:
Baltimore
Buffalo
New England
New York Jets
AFC WEST:
Denver
Kansas City
Los Angeles Chargers
Las Vegas
This post was edited on 1/7/24 at 8:32 pm
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Posted on 11/6/23 at 7:36 am to Buckeye Backer
No, the bigger issue is how lopsided the QB play is between the two conferences. If you rank the top 10 quarterbacks in the NFL, nine of them would be in the AFC. Jalen Hurts is the only NFC QB who’s a top 10 QB at the moment. There’s a massive gap in quality between the AFC and NFC at the moment and I don’t see it closing anytime soon until NFC teams massively improve their QB play.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 7:51 am to Buckeye Backer
quote:
AFC EAST:
Baltimore
Buffalo
New England
New York Jets
Also known as the 17 feet of snow league
I like your proposal, less travel too
Posted on 11/6/23 at 8:06 am to Buckeye Backer
The NFL needs to get rid of conferences and seed teams 1-14. The only reason Miami is in that division is rivalry purposes, the same goes for the NFC East.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 8:45 am to BZ504
quote:unless you find someway to do that while still maintaining divisions im good. I like the historical rivalries divisions help preserve.
The NFL needs to get rid of conferences
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:28 am to Buckeye Backer
As a Ravens fan, I would be against this.
Sure the division is insanely good and the east would be easier, but we have great rivalries with everyone in the division.
Baltimore is a blue collar town, a poor man's Philly compared to the other NE cites. I feel we fit in fine.
As a WVU fan, I've seen the games I care about disappear due to realignment. I'd hate for this to happen to my NFL team as well.
Sure the division is insanely good and the east would be easier, but we have great rivalries with everyone in the division.
Baltimore is a blue collar town, a poor man's Philly compared to the other NE cites. I feel we fit in fine.
As a WVU fan, I've seen the games I care about disappear due to realignment. I'd hate for this to happen to my NFL team as well.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:30 am to Buckeye Backer
wat are you going to do when Jax moves to london?
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:32 am to J Murdah
I miss the old AFC Central (Cin/Cle/Pit/Oliers). Wish they would have put the Texans in that division. The division names are just names that don’t mean anything (Cowboys in the NFC East). So Houston in the AFC North would have been fine.
This post was edited on 11/6/23 at 9:33 am
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:38 am to J Murdah
quote:
wat are you going to do when Jax moves to london?
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:45 am to Buckeye Backer
Ray Lewis is a murderer
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:47 am to Buckeye Backer
If the season ended today, all teams from the AFC north would make the playoffs.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 9:49 am to J Murdah
quote:
wat are you going to do when Jax moves to london?
Make comparisons to Dallas being in the nfc east
Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:09 am to Buckeye Backer
Miami in the East makes sense when you consider all the snowbirds and retirees in South Florida. I don't see that changing.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:20 am to Buckeye Backer
Makes sense geographically. As far as competitive advantage, that is totally cyclical
Posted on 11/6/23 at 10:40 am to Buckeye Backer
I agree with your logic, but the issue here (as it is with Dallas being in the NFC East) is long-term rivalries:
--The Dolphins have been in the AFC East since the merger, with their rivals being the Jets, Bills, Patriots since the old AFL East days. They weren't going to be moved out.
-- Other than their 1st year in the league (1960), Dallas has been in the same conference or division with Washington and Philly EVERY YEAR since, and in the same division or conference with the NY Giants EVERY YEAR BUT ONE (the 1969 Capitol Division). There was no way they would allow a move to a division without those rivalries.
--The Dolphins have been in the AFC East since the merger, with their rivals being the Jets, Bills, Patriots since the old AFL East days. They weren't going to be moved out.
-- Other than their 1st year in the league (1960), Dallas has been in the same conference or division with Washington and Philly EVERY YEAR since, and in the same division or conference with the NY Giants EVERY YEAR BUT ONE (the 1969 Capitol Division). There was no way they would allow a move to a division without those rivalries.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 11:01 am to Bench McElroy
quote:We kind of had the inverse of this when Brady was dominating the AFC. For a long time the AFC was basically Brady and Manning with a little Big Ben and PR17 sprinkled in while the rest of the conference had sub-par QB play. The NFC meanwhile had a lot of really good QBs for a long time before the pendulum shifted back to the AFC.
No, the bigger issue is how lopsided the QB play is between the two conferences. If you rank the top 10 quarterbacks in the NFL, nine of them would be in the AFC. Jalen Hurts is the only NFC QB who’s a top 10 QB at the moment. There’s a massive gap in quality between the AFC and NFC at the moment and I don’t see it closing anytime soon until NFC teams massively improve their QB play.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:12 pm to Buckeye Backer
quote:
AFC Division Realignment?
is all that really necessary just because Bellicheck has been proven as a fraud without brady to make him a winner, and the patriots no longer run the conference?
Posted on 11/6/23 at 3:16 pm to Buckeye Backer
quote:
AFC SOUTH:
Houston
Jacksonville
Miami
Tennessee
As a Dolphins fan, I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Posted on 1/7/24 at 8:31 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
Bumping this topic
The AFC North just accomplished something that hasn’t happened since the 1930s…all 4 AFC North teams finished above .500 on the season. The NFL needs to realign the AFC like in the OP.
The AFC North just accomplished something that hasn’t happened since the 1930s…all 4 AFC North teams finished above .500 on the season. The NFL needs to realign the AFC like in the OP.
Posted on 1/7/24 at 8:37 pm to Buckeye Backer
That AFC South would be 3 states with no income tax. It would be a pretty huge advantage for those 4 in free agency since they are taxed for game checks based on the state the contest took place in
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