I’ll say it again. One of the things that makes the playoffs exciting is home field advantage for crappy teams in crappy divisions. It’s fun watching them need to face better opponents at home. More upsets, more unpredictability, more intrigue. It is perfect as is
The Detroit Lions have proposed a rule change that will "allow Wild Card teams to be seeded higher than Division Champions if the Wild Card team has a better regular season record." More on that below from January
If Dalton Kinkade doesn’t drop this it will go down as one of the greatest passes/plays in the history of the NFL. Instead the narrative is 0-4 vs Maholmes. What a cruel twist of fate
It’d be difficult to convince me not one molecule of the football is between these lines, but it’s definitely way closer than people are pretending it is
Like, I bet throughout the beginning of the Pats dynasty people were thinking “well at least the Cowboys weren’t such and such” and during the early 90s they were thinking “well at least the 49ers weren’t so and so”
I suspect this notion is only getting popular because so many zoomers grew up liking the Pats and Brady because they kept winning. Now, with fully developed brains, they see a new dynasty doing exactly the same thing and they hate it the way everyone else did back then
I speak for every American outside of Kansas City in apologizing to the New England Patriots and their fans.
Your dynasty really wasn’t all that insufferable compared to this.
@JamesRoyNFL AFC South: Buns
AFC West: had 3 teams in the playoffs
AFC Division leaders: all made it to the divisional
NFC West: all contending for playoffs at one point (though mid over all), one representative in divisional
NFC South leader: made it to the playoffs and almost advanced
@KenWo4LiFe@ZevraDH@NFL_DovKleiman True, but the point is that the outcome of the game can be blamed mostly on the Lions’ failures than the Commander’s success
@ZevraDH@NFL_DovKleiman I’d say that’s about right, though the Texans game had more to do with defensive failures, special teams gaffs, O line issues, and red zone stalls than the refs. Even though they had some good drives the blame for losing a winnable game still falls at the Texans feet
People out here pretending this cost the Ravens the game as if Josh Allen didn’t have 1:30 to get the ball into field goal range… High probability of a Bills win regardless