Competition Committee: Playoff reseeding thoughts?

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Even though a few teams have bucked the trend in recent history ('05 Steelers, '07 Giants), the main idea here is to prevent a very good wild card team, perhaps a team that is the second best in its conference, from having to play three straight road games to get to the Super Bowl. A majority of the wild card winners would still be seeded 6th and 5th, but this change benefits teams in strong divisions. Think Jacksonville. They play great football every year and haven't hosted a playoff game since the Coughlin-era. This would allow the Jaguars, if they go 12-4 but the Colts go 13-3, to be the third seed and host the Sixth seed.

Which is a lot more fair than being the 5th seed and having to go to Pittsburgh.

Exactly! Which is why I'd support the change.