Schefter: **New NFL Playoff Structure - 1 BYE, 7 Teams per Conference**

[comochiefsfan]

Originally Posted by kcclone

I feel like they will need to be very selective about neutral site game locations & opponents for that to work. Could the Chiefs fill up a game in St Louis?.... Yes

Could the Seahawks fill it up in Portland?.... Yes, but those two scenarios will hardly be neutral games in reality because they would have 70%+ of the fans in attendance.

You can envision many nightmare scenarios for attendance if the teams aren’t right.

I don’t see how you could make Arizona vs Atlanta work many places for instance.

I mean, it’ll be a novelty for a lot of places.

I remember someone pretty plugged in mentioning they wanted to do games at some famous college stadiums.

An NFL game at Notre Dame Stadium will sell out no matter who the teams are just for the novelty of it.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by comochiefsfan

I mean, it’ll be a novelty for a lot of places.

I remember someone pretty plugged in mentioning they wanted to do games at some famous college stadiums.

An NFL game at Notre Dame Stadium will sell out no matter who the teams are just for the novelty of it.

Yeah, you cant have us playing in St. Louis or the Packers in Chicago etc. other teams would scream home field advantage.

[comochiefsfan]

Rams vs Cardinals in St. Louis.

The Exodus Bowl.

[Redbled]

Seems to make the most sense to have the 17th game be non conference and alternate years when each conference hosts. Nothing else seems as fair.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

17 games creates the possibility for teams getting ****ed with uneven home-road matchups, unless they are planning for every team to play one neutral site game every year in Mexico and/or London.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

A 17th game is adding six percent more advertising revenue while the players are only getting 1.5% more of the total pie. The owners are still coming out far ahead under this proposal, because they don't assume any extra risk.

Example: 10bn a year in TV contracts (for the sake of it being an even number)

Players get 4.7 billion

Owners get 5.3

Now, a 17th game adds an extra week

TV Contract 10.6 billion

Players get 10.6*0.485=5.141 billion

Owners get 10.6*0.515=5.459 billion

The players get 441 million more, the owners get 159. But for the owners, it's pure profit. A lot of these guys can't survive a 16 game schedule.

[58-4ever]

this has a way better chance than the 17 game season... The only way a 17 game season gets in is if the players get lifetime benefits, and maybe even a forced bye week.

[Megatron96]

Out of curiosity, has anyone gone back and checked to see what the playoff picture would've looked like had the new playoff structure been in place last year? Might be interesting to see how things would've worked out for the Chiefs in that scenario. Or even back the previous year.

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

Out of curiosity, has anyone gone back and checked to see what the playoff picture would've looked like had the new playoff structure been in place last year? Might be interesting to see how things would've worked out for the Chiefs in that scenario. Or even back the previous year.

I found this

Using this past season as an example, the 49ers and Ravens would’ve still earned byes as the top seeds. The No. 2 seeds, the Packers and eventual Super Bowl champion Chiefs, would’ve faced the No. 7 seeds, which would’ve been the Rams and Steelers, who didn’t make the postseason in 2019.

Here’s a look at the other teams from recent years that would have made the postseason under the new format.



What could have been…

Under the reported new format for the @NFL Playoffs, these teams would have been the extra #7 seed:

2019: Steelers, Rams
2018: Steelers, Vikings
2017: Ravens, Lions
2016: Titans, Buccaneers
2015: Jets, Falcons
— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) February 20, 2020

That bye becomes way more important, do we make that 24 point comeback vs Houston if we had played the week before, do we win the Superbowl vs 9ers who played one less game. I understand there are a lot of hypothetical scenarios out there but you need a perfect regular season without injuries and some luck to get that #1

[MAHOMO 4 LIFE!]

Players should receive lifetime health insurance if you played 3 or more years in the league.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by MAHOMO 4 LIFE!

Players should receive lifetime health insurance if you played 3 or more years in the league.

Unless you received a mega deal on your 2nd contract

[Red Dawg]

Originally Posted by MAHOMO 4 LIFE!

Players should receive lifetime health insurance if you played 3 or more years in the league.

What? They dont deserve that. They can quit if they dont wanna get hurt.

[TwistedChief]

Just think of how many more heartbreaking playoff losses we would have if this had been in effect for the last few decades! Need more of this...

[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

Just think of how many more heartbreaking playoff losses we would have if this had been in effect for the last few decades! Need more of this...

Carl Peterson lobbied for expanded playoffs for many years in an attempt to get the Chiefs into the playoffs more often. Glad if failed then, sucks that it is being implemented now.