Bills!Win! Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 The divisions don't really make sense. How are the Cowboys NFC east and the dolphins AFc east? They should both be south Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Nice post. How bout: No divisions. No conferences. Lottery schedule. Some teams play 5 games. Some teams play 20. It's a stretch, but I'll bet we'd learn to love it. I like it. Get Goodell on the phone and I'll pitch it to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djp14150 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 If you want to go with the 2 conferences /one division...then go to a 19 game schedule...then you play 15 intraconference and 4 interconference games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 We would still play the patriots after every bye week they had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvermike Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 If you want to go with the 2 conferences /one division...then go to a 19 game schedule...then you play 15 intraconference and 4 interconference games Hmm, too many games, too many injuries if they're all in a row. Let's just have every team play every other week, from March through December. Then go to the playoffs, take February off for the draft and free agency, and start it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladiebla Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I think that is a much better way to go about it then how it is now, even creates room for expansion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I think just the prospect of annual Buffalo-Cleveland and Buffalo-Jacksonville games would be enough to kill this idea dead in the eyes of the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cat Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 I think just the prospect of annual Buffalo-Cleveland and Buffalo-Jacksonville games would be enough to kill this idea dead in the eyes of the league. Just think: we'd also have a Rams Bucs game too! We'd also have annual matchups between Brees and Rodgers, Brady and Manning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max997 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Don't like it I like divisions and having rivalries but not a fan of only playing teams in your conference The mistake that was made was expanding the league to 32 teams and creating 4 divisions of 4 teams instead of 3 divisions of 5 teams in each conference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoggyHog Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 What if you had 1 Conference and 4 Divisions. North, South, East and West. Each Division had 8 teams. Regular season would consist of not playing your division, but 2 others. North vs South and East, South vs. North and West, East vs. North and West, West vs. East and South. That's 16 games to determine your position in your division against division foes facing the same teams but not each other. Everyone would have the same bye week, say in the middle of the season. The playoffs would be in a bracket style playoff system. Everyone makes the playoffs. You play within your division. 1's vs. 8's, 2,s vs. 7's and so on. Final 4 (Division champs) would be North vs. South, East vs. West to determine the Super Bowl. The next year, you just mix-up the regular (North vs. East and West.... ect) and playoffs (North vs. West, South vs. East). This way, you play a team 2 years in a row, 1 year off, except in your own division where you may face them every year, or not for years. The Super Bowl will most likely be two teams that have already played that year (sucks) but we have that possibilty now anyway. This schedule would give the NFL 20 more games a year (I think) and a chance for fans to fill out brackets while hoping their team (The Bills) could pull-off the upset of the year! Don't kill me on this....... just thinking out-loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I don't mind the current format except the some of the teams don't make sense in their respective divisions such as the Cowboys in the NFC East, or even the dolphins in the AFC East (I know they're on the East coast, but they don't fit in a division with 3 other northeast teams). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Day 10 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 (edited) am sick of the alignments in MLB and NFL. Was sick of the NHL and glad to see a change, but I liked the owners' proposal that was shot down last year better. The NFL never likes to move around too much, but it gets stale IMO. I do think that the recent concussion settlement may result in more support among the owners for expansion (which is great IMO and may save the Bills in Buffalo). For hypothetical, let's say they expanded to 2 cities, that is 34 teams AFC East Jets Giants New England Baltimore Washington Philadelphia Carolina London Central Bills Steelers Browns Bengals Colts Lions Packers Bears Vikings NFC South Atlanta Tampa Bay Tennessee New Orleans Miami Jacksonville Houston Dallas St Louis West 49ers Oakland Los Angeles Seattle San Diego Denver Arizona Kansas City Done, and awesomeness. You would hear crying from Dallas... but rivalries these days are mainly built situationally. Treat each Division kind of like a Conference in NCAA. Play each team 1x and rotate the Home and Away every season. Edited September 27, 2013 by May Day 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 We'd also have annual matchups between Brees and Rodgers, Brady and Manning. We already do. It's called the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgia Bill Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 The Bills would never again play a game vs the NFC. One could always dream (not much different from today) I think just the prospect of annual Buffalo-Cleveland and Buffalo-Jacksonville games would be enough to kill this idea dead in the eyes of the league. Well for the last several years, that's not been much worse than a 2x annual matchup between Buffalo and Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benderbender Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I like the schedule where we don't play Cleveland, Kansas City, and Jacksonville every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Angel Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 dislike the lack of rivalries being established. otherwise, sure it makes sense they use to be rivalries, now it more like an ass whoopin on the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
run dat back Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 After the Seahawks got in with a losing record, yeah, divisions should go. Probably no chance of that happening, though. I had exactly the same idea, except keeping it at 16 and playing your arch rival home and away, which keeps a little bit of the rivalry thing going. I even thought you could alternate playing the rest of your conference one season and all of the other the following one. But that wouldn't be good for rivalries. Playing every opponent is one of the things I like about soccer leagues and is very democratic. Not sure there would be a big appetite for it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChallengeHistory Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 The Niners are not the best of the top 6 in the NFC. Could you put KC over Denver? KC is playing well but I think Denver would smack the **** out of them to be honest. In fact I think only Seattle could match up well with Denver at this point. Once they get Von back... I would not want to play them. They're better than the 07 Pats.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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