NFL: Playoff Predictions/Previews

[Imran Siddiqui]

Just hope they get the **** beat out of 'em in the playoffs .

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Why? Baltimore won its division and Miami didn't. I see no reason to change anything.

Alright, the Ravens won their division and thus (with the current rules) earned a playoff berth. Fair enough.
However, isn't a playoff series about having the best teams going head-to-head?
Overall performance-wise, Baltimore is not better than Miami.
Furthermore, Baltimore didn't just clinch a playoff berth. It also clinched homefield advantage for wildcard weekend, facing Tennessee that has a better record (12-4).

If there is already a seeding system used to determine which team has homefield advantage during the playoffs, why not use it to determine who has homefield advantage during wildcard weekend?
I find this strange and confusing.

[Imran Siddiqui]

However, isn't a playoff series about having the best teams going head-to-head?

It's about having the division winners and two wild cards going head-to-head .

If there is already a seeding system used to determine which team has homefield advantage during the playoffs, why not use it to determine who has homefield advantage during wildcard weekend?

Because Tennessee didn't win their division. Division champs get respect.

If it were up to me, I'd just have the division winners go... based on division records (not overall records).

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Zopperoni

Alright, the Ravens won their division and thus (with the current rules) earned a playoff berth. Fair enough.
However, isn't a playoff series about having the best teams going head-to-head?
Overall performance-wise, Baltimore is not better than Miami.
Furthermore, Baltimore didn't just clinch a playoff berth. It also clinched homefield advantage for wildcard weekend, facing Tennessee that has a better record (12-4).

If there is already a seeding system used to determine which team has homefield advantage during the playoffs, why not use it to determine who has homefield advantage during wildcard weekend?
I find this strange and confusing.

one of the advantages of allowing division winners is to allow teams from all over the country to get in.

even if ur team doesn't get in, u can always hope the other team in ur division u hate loses badly!

so the whole idea is to keep on average more interest.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Division champs get respect.

They don't get a lot of respect from me if the division was pretty crappy, performance-wise, but that's a personal opinion.

Originally posted by yavoon
so the whole idea is to keep on average more interest.

Ah, I see.

The thing I don't get to see is live football though. At least not until the Super Bowl, the only piece of live football broadcasted in the Netherlands :grrr:

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Zopperoni

That's not true. Green Bay routed Seattle 35-13 in week 5 (at Lambeau).

I said other than this year

[Frozzy]

nm

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Frozzy
My predictions:

so ur bill simmons? this is news.

(bill simmons is page 2 espn columnist)