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Originally Posted by skinsfan69
Did anyone honestly want to see any of those teams in the playoffs? Chicago's defense was worse than ours. Pittsburgh was the definition of average. Neither deserved to be in the playoffs. The owners just need to leave the damn game alone. It's already watered down as it is.
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Since it is clear that the 7th seed would historically be on par with or better than at least the 4th division champ the added competition would be excellent. I am confident that the fans of that 10-6 cardinals wanted to see their team in the playoffs. And I certainly remember when the 11-5 Patriots missed the playoffs. Pretty certain a game pitting them against the 2nd seed that year would have been extremely entertaining..
Point is the 7th team isn't always, or even mostly, a floundering team. Its often a very good team in a very competitive division/conference.