At this Point, does the Regular Season even matter?

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I guess what really is irking me is that football is a 60 minute game played in a 16 game season. That's really short. Then you arbitrarily tell some average performing teams that their season is over, while another average performing team goes on and wins the SB.

I'm somewhat in favor of shrinking the playoffs by a round to protect the elite teams from having to play too many games in the playoffs. I still want to see the one v two matchups in the playoffs to decide superiority, I'm just a little tired right now of 9-7/8-8 teams getting a chance to improve that other 9-7/8-8 teams (think Cleveland) aren't getting.

In a lot of seasons, the Giants would have had to wait to next year based on how they played in the season, but for them, the post season was a whole new season, one in which they dominated.