SaintsBro

I don't know the exact numbers but it is REALLY easy to get into the playoffs in basketball. Barely over .500 is typically good enough to get in. It's also completely different, in that you have to win a series in order to advance in basketball; so most of the time, the better team truly DOES win out the series.

But football playoffs are one and done, and to my mind, this just opens up all sorts of problem scenarios of like, a really good team like a Seattle or a Texans, getting pushed out of the playoffs by mediocre teams, who catch a lucky break (bad weather, turnovers, or a string of fluke plays). So you have an 8-8 or 9-7 team that suddenly knocks out the heavy favorite #2 seed -- as a fan of the GAME, not a specific team, that's NOT what I want to see.

Like take the year that Seattle beat us, for instance (Ugh, I am sorry to make you think of it). Then they got completely annihilated by whoever it was they played the next week.... Other than the injuries at the running back position, including Reggie Bush, the Saints were a better team that year, at EVERY position group, who just ran out of gas at RB that day, and laid an egg. But the "wrong" team advanced. Adding extra playoff games would cause that sort of thing to happen ALL THE FREAKING TIME. Because of losing a bye or increasing injuries etc.

So if they do this, be prepared to see a lot of ugly playoffs games with things like, Kirk Cousins at QB instead of RGIII, Eagles without LeSean McCoy,.

The other thing about adding games that no one from the NFL seems to think about -- coaches will start DROPPING GAMES early in the year, if they know they don't need them. Playing Seattle or SF early the year? Why bother risking injuries, when you know that 9-7 will be enough to get you into the playoffs? Those garbage games and resting players at the end of the year, will STILL be happening, just early in the year, if coaches realize they don't need to win every game every week, to get into the playoffs.