Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Are you kidding me. Playoffs?

So this is really what people are calling for?

I know that this article by Gregg Easterbrook is well intentioned. He talks about how the NFL playoff system is broken because of the possibility of 11-5 teams missing the playoffs while 8-8 teams are in. Well, I will say I severely disagree.

1. The system isn't broken because the division winners are being rewarded for exceptional division play. There are no division leaders that are playing at least .600 in division. The cardinals 5-0 in division. Some would argue that's easy because the division is awful but you still have to reward them for winning those games and putting themselves into clinching the division so that they haven't had anything to play for for the last 3 weeks.

2. For you to just have a seeded tournament where the best 12 play, the schedule must be a true round-robin format to be fair. I could see NFL owners going for a 31 game schedule, but I can't see the players doing it. The reason that is the only way to be fair is the same reason the NFL went to consolidated schedules for divisions. For each team within a division, they play 14 common games, 6 in the division, 4 against a specific AFC division and 4 against a specific NFC division. That makes rewarding division winners with a playoff spot makes sense. If they play the same schedule, the one that does the best should be in. If a team went 6-0 in the division and 0-10 outside of it and still won their division I would still have the same argument. Maybe they played 8 playoff teams. I don't know.

I think that was a pretty shallow argument and was more of a porr attempt at getting the people on the side of a bad argument. Thanks, Gregg