The NFL Playoff Seeding Will Not Be Changing I BMitch & FInlay

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JP and BMitch are excited to see the Lions have withdrawn a rule proposal that would have seeded NFL playoff teams by record rather than divisions.

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00:00The Lions have withdrawn their proposal to change playoff seating.

00:05Let me ask you a question.

00:06Why did the Lions come up with that?

00:09They had home field and lost.

00:13I mean, maybe you're trying to look broadly rather than just at last season

00:18and say, you know, what if we had lost to Minnesota,

00:21then we'd be the five seed despite winning 14 games.

00:24Okay.

00:25But they lost at home, which lets them know that it comes down to

00:29who plays the best at that.

00:31My thing is not about specific playoff results based on seating.

00:38My thing is, if you're going to have divisions

00:41and you're going to double up the division games,

00:44if that's the one set of teams you play twice every year,

00:48then you have to reward division players.

00:51Yeah, you have to have some weight on that.

00:53If you want to scrap divisions

00:56or scrap the home-and-home of division play,

01:00then sure, reseed it.

01:02Yeah.

01:02But I just, I don't think you can have one without the other in that capacity.

01:07Yeah.

01:08I just don't get it, you know.

01:10It's like today, everyone is looking for the easy way out.

01:15Instead of just, like when I saw in my time,

01:19two times they were the sixth seed, the Giants, right?

01:22And they went to the Super Bowl and won it.

01:25I don't know if they were the sixth, but they were a wild card.

01:27They were a wild card.

01:28And I think their wild card, I think it was sixth one time

01:32when they beat the Patriots when they were undefeated.

01:36Yeah.

01:36So my question is, just be better than everybody at that time.

01:41You know, if we had done something like that, you know, back then,

01:47would it have been like that?

01:48But it's shown when you're the best on Sunday or Saturday, you win.

01:56You can't just be, like, I remember we in Philly were like,

02:00we got to get home field advantage.

02:02You know what we did in the NFC Championship game?

02:04Lost.

02:06At home.

02:07Because you got to figure out what your focus is.

02:10Is your focus to get home field or your focus to win a Super Bowl?

02:13I think the Giants, the year they beat the undefeated Pats,

02:17had to play three straight road playoff games.

02:20They beat, I think they beat at Tampa, at Dallas, at Green Bay.

02:23I know the NFC title game was in Green Bay.

02:25I remember that very well.

02:26So, I mean, I just, I don't believe in just making things easier for people.

02:33Yeah, I don't, I don't know that it,

02:35I think the NFL is such a game of specific circumstances to that day.

02:42Yeah.

02:42Right?

02:43Like, I think, like, I don't know what happens in the Lions commanders divisional

02:49playoff win where Washington went up there and was a better team.

02:52What if David Montgomery didn't make this crazy comeback from what looked like a

02:57major knee injury and the Lions felt some obligation to make sure they got

03:01Montgomery the ball, right?

03:02Like, if Montgomery wasn't playing and it was just Gibbs all day,

03:05like, to me, I'm not focused on specific games because the most memorable

03:11home playoff division winner, the Beastquake.

03:15I think of that Marshawn Lynch play.

03:17I think the Seahawks were 7-9 and the Saints were, like, 11-5 or something,

03:21right?

03:21Like, to me, if you're going to value divisions,

03:26then the division championship has to have some value.

03:29Yeah.

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