The only way something like that would work is if you kept the divisions and wild cards as is, but took away the automatic home game for division winners.

Then you can still have the seven playoff eligible teams per conference, top record gets the bye, and then the top three remaining teams with the best record get the home game.

That way the wild-card 12-5 team gets a home playoff game, while the 8-9 division winner still gets in but has to go on the road.

2 hours ago, DEagle7 said:

Yup. Division rivalries are fun. Getting rid of them is silly. Sure we still have rivalries with teams after big wins/losses/fights etc but they fade after a few years (does anyone really care about the state of the Saints or the Vikings anymore?).

As to the Saints, yes. Every day. Them and Seattle for non-divisional teams that I seethe about. And Tampa. And the Chiefs.

3 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It's ridiculous. So the Eagles, who play the toughest out-of-division schedule this season, can likely win the division with a 12-5 record and by all statistical metrics still be considered to be the best team in the league. But will possibly travel to a road NFFCG against a 11-4 wildcard team?

There will never be a perfect process. The current one is no worse than any other option.

With the proposal, the Eagles would be at home in the NFCCG if they have the best record.

But yeah, the proposal is dumb. Either implement record priority or don't. Don't wait until the next round to do it, that makes no sense. This shows zero conviction in the format.

1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It's ridiculous. So the Eagles, who play the toughest out-of-division schedule this season, can likely win the division with a 12-5 record and by all statistical metrics still be considered to be the best team in the league. But will possibly travel to a road NFFCG against a 11-4 wildcard team?

There will never be a perfect process. The current one is no worse than any other option.

This is why I said either leave it what it is now or just change it to be base seeding off records completely throughout the playoffs. Reading the rule in how it’s proposed feels like the NFL is trying to appease both sides. The side that doesn’t want change and side does by compromising by doing this. And to be honest, this is the worst plan that just keeping it what it is or just having seeds from the start of the playoffs done by record.

11 minutes ago, hukdonfoniks said:

The only way something like that would work is if you kept the divisions and wild cards as is, but took away the automatic home game for division winners.

Then you can still have the seven playoff eligible teams per conference, top record gets the bye, and then the top three remaining teams with the best record get the home game.

That way the wild-card 12-5 team gets a home playoff game, while the 8-9 division winner still gets in but has to go on the road.

That was the original proposal was 4 division winners get automatic playoff berths. Then seeding 1-7 goes by records and tie breaker if they’re similar records.

I’m guessing the issue was some teams didn’t wanna vote yes to that because they didn’t wanna lose a home playoff game for winning the division in the WC. So in order to try to get enough votes to re-seed after the wildcard, they went to this new third option. The first option was leave it what it is now. The second option was complete reseeding by record (4 division winners automatic playoff berth). And now this 3rd option. To me this 3rd option is the worst of the three options.

I don't understand telling division winners they deserve a home playoff game in the wild card round and then telling them "Sorry, we're bumping you down a seed now" in the divisional round. How does that make sense?

4 hours ago, UK Eagle said:

I wholeheartedly endorse reciprocal pettiness. Whether it be banning the Lambeau Leap, banning the Chiefs chant, introducing rules about player safety in playing in temps over 100F etc to reduce the competitive advantage the Bucs and Fins, have. The Cowboys and Lions being mandated to play away on a Thursday night. Etc

After all. The NFL constantly talks about parity.

All kidding aside, I wonder of the risks to player safety playing in temps over 100*F isn't a greater than the 'tush push'. IOW the risk in either case isn't that great.

All of the recent rule changes have been to accommodate whiners and losers. We had to change the overtime rules because the Bills are losers. Now we have to ban the brotherly shove because the Packers and others can't stop the Eagles. Re-seed the playoffs because Sam Darnold couldn't win a neutral site game. Never mind the fact that the NFC North was exposed as frauds going 0-3 in the playoffs (playing the AFC South and NFC West inflated their records). The second we won the Super Bowl, I assumed this was coming.

After we win Super Bowl LX, the team should take the Lombardi Trophy, line up in formation, snap it to Jalen, and run the brotherly shove straight into Goodell's ACL.

1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

Really wasn't expecting the whining from Packers. Actually liked that team and would usually root for them if we were eliminated

This... changes things for me

They have joined the Vikings as sore losers against us. We beat them in the regular season, then dominated them in the playoffs.

I think the Eagles have a strong chance to repeat. The league wants to ban the brotherly shove, GMs didn't want to deal with Howie, they're all jealous of the success. It's going to get worse if they continue to win. Bring it on!

Between the field at MetLife, the **** field we had to play the first KC Super Bowl on, and sending us to play in Brazil, I don't want to hear anyone in the NFL offices complaining about "player safety"

23 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Couple of names for this play:

'Jordan Ramsey'

'HWY 90'

'DTF'

2 minutes ago, hukdonfoniks said:

Between the field at MetLife, the **** field we had to play the first KC Super Bowl on, and sending us to play in Brazil, I don't want to hear anyone in the NFL offices complaining about "player safety"

4 minutes ago, NYEagle said:

:lol: Thats disgusting

18 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

All of the recent rule changes have been to accommodate whiners and losers. We had to change the overtime rules because the Bills are losers. Now we have to ban the brotherly shove because the Packers and others can't stop the Eagles. Re-seed the playoffs because Sam Darnold couldn't win a neutral site game. Never mind the fact that the NFC North was exposed as frauds going 0-3 in the playoffs (playing the AFC South and NFC West inflated their records). The second we won the Super Bowl, I assumed this was coming.

After we win Super Bowl LX, the team should take the Lombardi Trophy, line up in formation, snap it to Jalen, and run the brotherly shove straight into Goodell's ACL.

Exactly.

Football at its core is about men lining up against men and fighting for yards on the field. Are they going to ban linemen being too strong? QBs that can squat a certain amount is an unfair advantage?

STFU, MAN up and learn to play physical football.

The onsides kick rules I don't understand at all. Why dictate to the teams when they're allowed to do it, and remove the surprise by making it required to inform? What if a team wants to do it while they have a lead, for a competitive advantage? The league is pushing too many rule changes.

They should focus on the refs being more consistent, the officiating across the league has been horrible in recent years.

Also, we all know that the refs won't call anyone for pushing a runner downfield; they never really called it when it was a penalty on the books previously. This is just window dressing to hide the reality that they are punishing one team for being better at something than everyone else.

19 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

The Eagles got it right with 1 WR in the draft since 2009, I think.

Just 1.

According to @HazletonEagle that was all Joe Douglas's fault. I was just pointing out that the miss with JJ in 2019 was pretty bad given that DK and McLaurin were drafted after him. It also wasn't a low talent draft at the WR position.

AJ Brown is the best

4 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

According to @HazletonEagle that was all Joe Douglas's fault. I was just pointing out that the miss with JJ in 2019 was pretty bad given that DK and McLaurin were drafted after him. It also wasn't a low talent draft at the WR position.

Douglas came over from the ravens where they have never had a good WR, ever. He doenst know WRs, among other things. Like football in general.

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

Douglas came over from the ravens where they have never had a good WR, ever. He doenst know WRs, among other things. Like football in general.

Joe Douglas rode the coattails of Ozzie Newsome.

8 minutes ago, NOTW said:

The onsides kick rules I don't understand at all. Why dictate to the teams when they're allowed to do it, and remove the surprise by making it required to inform? What if a team wants to do it while they have a lead, for a competitive advantage? The league is pushing too many rule changes.

They should focus on the refs being more consistent, the officiating across the league has been horrible in recent years.

The problem they themselves created is the new kickoffs have to be lined up a certain way it completely takes away the surprise of the onside kick. Announcing it ahead of time ultimately doesn’t matter because to line up for it you already are announcing it even if you didn’t have to. There’s really no way to fix that besides going back to old kickoffs which might not ever happen.

Now, the dictating of only allowing to try while trailing makes no sense. It made even less sense when it was 4th Quarter only. My only guess is either they think it takes too long for pace of play so they want to limit it. Or they know an onsides kick is such an objective failure, they want to sweep it under the rug as much as they can.

Just now, NCiggles said:

Joe Douglas rode the coattails of Ozzie Newsome.

bigly

1 hour ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

it's funnier because it's Georgia

31 minutes ago, NOTW said:

They have joined the Vikings as sore losers against us. We beat them in the regular season, then dominated them in the playoffs.

I think the Eagles have a strong chance to repeat. The league wants to ban the brotherly shove, GMs didn't want to deal with Howie, they're all jealous of the success. It's going to get worse if they continue to win. Bring it on!

Also 49ers

A vote on whether to allow NFL players to participate in flag football at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is expected to pass at Tuesday's league meeting in Minneapolis, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The resolution needs to be approved by at least 24 of the 32 team owners. The league then will need to negotiate with the NFL Players Association, Olympic officials and national governing bodies on the specifics of letting NFL players participate.

The resolution on Olympic flag football participation is one of multiple items expected to be voted on this week. Owners also will vote on the Green Bay Packers' proposal to ban the controversial tush push play and the Detroit Lions' proposal to reseed playoff teams based on regular-season record, but sources told Schefter that those votes are not expected until Wednesday.

Although the fate of the tush push and playoff reseeding resolutions remained uncertain as of Tuesday morning, a source told Schefter that passing the resolution on the Olympic flag football participation "should be easy."

The flag football resolution establishes rules and a basic structure for how the NFL hopes to see the process work, subject to negotiations with the NFLPA and Olympics-related entities. They include:

• Permission for any player under NFL contract to participate in tryouts

• A limit of one player per NFL team on each national team participating

• Allowing, in addition, a team's designated international player to play for his home country

• A purchase of leaguewide insurance policies to provide injury protection for any player injured while participating in an authorized flag football activity related to the Olympics

• A salary cap credit for any player who is injured

• An expectation that Olympic flag football teams will establish medical staffs and field surfaces that comply with NFL minimum standards

• A schedule that "does not unreasonably conflict with an NFL player's league and club commitments."

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and other key league officials made their support for participation at the Olympics clear during their most recent meetings in Palm Beach, Florida, last month.

The Los Angeles Summer Olympics are scheduled to take place from July 14, 2028, to July 30, 2028. NFL players are typically off during most of that period. At worst, flag football participants would miss the start of training camp.