Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Okay, How Do We Solve This Mess?

To put it nicely, the NFC South is a mess.  To put it truthfully, the NFC South is absolutley disasterous.  Right now, the division stands with Atlanta at 4-7, New Orleans at 4-7, Carolina at 3-7-1, and Tampa Bay at 2-9.  Really?  You know whats even better?  The winner of this division not only makes the playoffs, but they will host a home game.  There's something wrong here.

I decided to personally go through and look at the rest of the schedules for each team and decide what their record may end up being.  At this moment, I'm projecting New Orleans at 6-10, Atlanta at 6-10, Carolina at 3-12-1, and Tampa Bay at 4-12.  Are you serious?  So let me get this straight - a 6-10 team will host a playoff a game?  Wow.  I mean go ahead and look at the rest of the schedule and predict for yourself but right now, this may be the case.  New Orleans would get in because they play Atlanta in Week 16 and I'm prediciting them to win which would allow New Orleans to break the tiebreaker and get in to the playoffs.  But back to the main picture.  New Orleans hosting a playoff game?  Oh brother.

Here is what the NFL can do to fix this mess. They need to make a rule, in print, stating that a division winner that DOES NOT have a .500 record or better will NOT host a playoff game.  However, they WILL make the playoffs because the division winner is entitled to a playoff spot and will be placed as the last Wild Card seed.  This is my solution and what I think should happen.  It's not fair to completely take the home game away from the division winner so the rule should state that they must at least be a .500, or 8-8 football team.

The problem is that this season, a team from the NFC South will indeed host a playoff game.  Looking at the schedule, I believe it ultimatley comes down to New Orleans and Atlanta but honestly with the way this division has gone, anything, and I mean anything can happen.

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