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[RedViper]

I guarantee its not going to happen at all. The owners aren't going to put up with it. As it stands they have a guaranteed lock into the playoffs with a guarantee of at least one playoff game at home. They build a team designed to defeat the other three teams in division and hit the cash cow in January, the first step to advancing towards a superbowl. Why would they ever give that certain thing up? They won't. The East coast bias jackass sportswriters will spit up their bile, on and on, especially if we win tomorrow, but the system we have will live on. The owners will look at the idea in February when everyone has the same record and say what's in it for me? If anything, they'll add two more playoff teams. But there is no way in hell they'll agree to an NBA style playoff system. That fact alone, the David Stern stink on it, is all the proof these owners will need, outside the fact that it sucks.

 

[conraddobler]

I think the ultimate irony is to see the Eagles get screwed by advocating this as the first team to flame out under the new rules.

Would've had a home game but noooooooo, shot our mouths off and had to go to Arizona again and again, we were defeated.

You really have to be wary of the karma thing it's a beach.

 

[BCEagle]

I guarantee its not going to happen at all. The owners aren't going to put up with it. As it stands they have a guaranteed lock into the playoffs with a guarantee of at least one playoff game at home. They build a team designed to defeat the other three teams in division and hit the cash cow in January, the first step to advancing towards a superbowl. Why would they ever give that certain thing up? They won't. The East coast bias jackass sportswriters will spit up their bile, on and on, especially if we win tomorrow, but the system we have will live on. The owners will look at the idea in February when everyone has the same record and say what's in it for me? If anything, they'll add two more playoff teams. But there is no way in hell they'll agree to an NBA style playoff system. That fact alone, the David Stern stink on it, is all the proof these owners will need, outside the fact that it sucks.

All of the NFC East owners are on board with it, I don't know about the rest. We know that McKay of the Falcons supported it last year. I would imagine that Irsay will support it after what happened this year.

Revenue sharing is the cash cow in the NFL, and that comes from the overall success of the league. The more money the league makes, the more money available to every team. The league makes more money when there are more meaningful, competitive games. From a pure business sense, I can't see why anyone would oppose it.

 

[BCEagle]

Sweet - and then you can jump into your time machine and have the 2008 NFC championship game played at the LINC!

Listen dude if I was on the other side and the home filed provided such an advantage I might be a little bitter too. But what are you going to do. You gotta play the cards your dealt and we have played them DAMN well. Lets give credit where credit is due. Your boys had the chance to settle it on the field and they couldn't.

Whats the point in trying to be play the "what if" game and pretend things should be different because it was your team that lost? You sound like sad pathetic Raider fan about the infamous tuck game.

I don't expect us to have any more 9-7 records and getting in the playoffs from this point on anyway.

Expectations have been raised here. Its 12 wins or bust

I'm not bitter. Nowhere did I write that the Eagles would have won if the game were played at the Linc. Given the Eagles recent history of hosting NFCCGs, they might have fared worse.

My argument is based on economics and pure love of the game. I actually supported the change last year, when the Giants, a team that I loathe immensely, had to open on the road against an inferior Bucs team. So it has nothing to do with team loyalties.

I also do expect the Cardinals to win more games next year. Just a little tweaking on defense during the offseason, and they would be very hard to beat.

 

[Sandan]

Results say they are hard to beat this year

 

[Sandan]

Oh and NFC East = Big money teams.

So duh, yeah they would like a change as they assume in most years it would favor them.

 

[Duckjake]

Oh and NFC East = Big money teams.

So duh, yeah they would like a change as they assume in most years it would favor them.

More likely because the NFC East has lost every road playoff game, 0-4, against the NFC West champs. Like I said before its the sour grapes seeding plan.

Of course changing makes so much sense when 2 of the last 3 SuperBowl champions played nothing but road games en route to the Big Game.

To make it really fair the NFL should seed only on non-division record. Teams prep for their division games for years. They know each so well that the better team doesn't necessarily win. So the out of division games would be a far better indicator of supremecy by a team overall.

Therefore, the Cards, whose non-division opponents won 25 more games than the Eagles n-d opponents, deserved to host the Nfc Championship game.

 

[ajcardfan]

There's not an owner in the NFL who wouldn't greatly prefer a home game to a road playoff game. Yes, the gate revenue is shared. But, there is ancillary revenue that goes into the team's pockets alone.

 

[BCEagle]

More likely because the NFC East has lost every road playoff game, 0-4, against the NFC West champs. Like I said before its the sour grapes seeding plan.

Of course changing makes so much sense when 2 of the last 3 SuperBowl champions played nothing but road games en route to the Big Game.

To make it really fair the NFL should seed only on non-division record. Teams prep for their division games for years. They know each so well that the better team doesn't necessarily win. So the out of division games would be a far better indicator of supremecy by a team overall.

Therefore, the Cards, whose non-division opponents won 25 more games than the Eagles n-d opponents, deserved to host the Nfc Championship game.

Wow. Talk about playing with numbers. Strength of schedule of non divisional opponents? All of these mathematical contortions by you guys, and you seem to overlook the most important one -- the fact that the Eagles won the head-to-head matchup. I mean, head-to-head matchup would be the best, most important indicator, wouldn't it? Or, are we in some kind of through-the-looking-glass Alice in Wonderland here?

That, combined with having a better record and a better strength of schedule by the Eagles means I don't think you really have a leg to stand on here. The Cardinals are the better team, sure, because they won when it counted, but nothing argued thus far supports the idea of giving division winners an automatic home playoff game.

I like the compromise idea of giving division winners an automatic berth in the playoffs, but I think that every team should be forced to fight it out for homefield advantage. That keeps things the most competitive. Think of it this way: during the final four weeks of the season the Cardinals were just about the worst team in professional football (marginally better than the Lions, I guess) as they mailed it in and rested their players. Enough about this east coast jet lag nonsense. The Cardinals sucked because they had nothing to win for. Had they had something to fight for, Cardinals fans would have seen much better games in December.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

That would be four times now.

I agree that you have not engaged me in discussion. Rather than debate on the merits of your position, your campaign has been entirely one to quiet a voice of opposition. Nothing more. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Someone evidently suffers from serious delusions of adequacy... a clear sign of a second rate mind.

 

[BCEagle]

There's not an owner in the NFL who wouldn't greatly prefer a home game to a road playoff game. Yes, the gate revenue is shared. But, there is ancillary revenue that goes into the team's pockets alone.

For every home playoff game that one team loses, another team gains one. I am sure that McKay and Irsay would have preferred that their teams hosted playoff games this year, but the only way that could happen is to change the playoff seeding.