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StickierBuns · 12-23-2024, 10:29 AM

....and head out on the road. Ridiculous. I'm still not a believer Minnesota will beat Detroit at Detroit, but damn I'd love to see them get the #1 seed and homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. From bridge QB and projected 6.5 game season from Vegas, to the top seed in the NFC: a movie indeed.

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purplefaithful · 12-23-2024, 10:54 AM

Yah, its one of the more infuriating realities of whats been a fun ride...Winning the next two is a very tall order indeed.

JR44 · 12-23-2024, 11:13 AM

Every week it seems hard to believe this team can keep winning tough games and yet they do, so while these next two will be against two of the best teams in the league, I fully expect us to be in position to win both of them. Weather will not be a factor in either game, if we can win against GB, we put the Lions in a position they have not been in all year, which is a must win game. The play yesterday with the fake stumble, just reeks arrogance and stupidity from this team, which I think could be the factor that puts us over the edge in a showdown with them.

Montana Tom · 12-23-2024, 11:22 AM

I'm starting to believe that the 2022 season (13-4) was not a fluke. All those close 1-score games that we pulled out of our asses.
Looking at this team, and how they have mostly just found a way to win, I'm starting to think that the coaching has more to do with this record than the roster.

StickierBuns · 12-23-2024, 11:24 AM

(12-23-2024, 11:13 AM)JR44 Wrote: Every week it seems hard to believe this team can keep winning tough games and yet they do, so while these next two will be against two of the best teams in the league, I fully expect us to be in position to win both of them. Weather will not be a factor in either game, if we can win against GB, we put the Lions in a position they have not been in all year, which is a must win game. The play yesterday with the fake stumble, just reeks arrogance and stupidity from this team, which I think could be the factor that puts us over the edge in a showdown with them.

Preach, brother. Its time for the dumb one known as Campbell to be humbled.

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Greylock · 12-23-2024, 12:51 PM

They need to seed the playoff teams by record. There is no reason a team with a slightly better than a .500 record should get a home playoff game just because they won a crappy division.

Montana Tom · 12-23-2024, 01:08 PM

(12-23-2024, 12:51 PM)Greylock Wrote: They need to seed the playoff teams by record. There is no reason a team with a slightly better than a .500 record should get a home playoff game just because they won a crappy division.

They made these rules years ago. I'm quite sure that this was debated at the time. I don't have the statistics from previous years that three of the top seven (or six previously) playoff teams came from one division, but this is clearly an outlier.

Both the AFC North and NFC East have two teams that have won at least 10 games (with two to go), but to have THREE with ten or more wins at this stage is pretty remarkable.

I will say this...the current scenario has created a tremendous amount of drama and attention focused toward the NFC North division as the toughest in the NFL. With a lot of focus on the final game of the season to put extra motivation on winning the division for exactly that reason. The prize should be awarded on winning the division, so I think the current seeding structure is the correct one. In my humble opinion, of course.

AGRforever · 12-23-2024, 01:12 PM

(12-23-2024, 12:51 PM)Greylock Wrote: They need to seed the playoff teams by record. There is no reason a team with a slightly better than a .500 record should get a home playoff game just because they won a crappy division.

Na screw that. Win your division you should win a home game.

MaroonBells · 12-23-2024, 01:28 PM

(12-23-2024, 01:12 PM)AGRforever Wrote: Na screw that. Win your division you should win a home game.

I'm with Greylock on this one. Like I said before, win the division, get a banner, get a t-shirt, get the $50K bonus that goes with it. But playoff seeding should be determined by record only. Teams with the best records are the best teams. Those are the teams that should vie for a title.

1VikesFan · 12-23-2024, 01:53 PM

(12-23-2024, 01:08 PM)Montana Tom Wrote: They made these rules years ago. I'm quite sure that this was debated at the time. I don't have the statistics from previous years that three of the top seven (or six previously) playoff teams came from one division, but this is clearly an outlier.

Both the AFC North and NFC East have two teams that have won at least 10 games (with two to go), but to have THREE with ten or more wins at this stage is pretty remarkable.

I will say this...the current scenario has created a tremendous amount of drama and attention focused toward the NFC North division as the toughest in the NFL. With a lot of focus on the final game of the season to put extra motivation on winning the division for exactly that reason. The prize should be awarded on winning the division, so I think the current seeding structure is the correct one. In my humble opinion, of course.

I disagree Tom, being penalized for having the 2nd or 3rd best record in the conference just because the best team in the conference is in your division is crazy. 3 best records after the 1 seed should get a home playoff game.