Why Jared Allen's Criticism of NFL Playoff Expansion Is Spot-on

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, with firm foodstuff ease on his grappling from the unskilled Bountygate fiasco, discussed plans for possibleness playoff treatment this week, but if activity from a sort of players is whatever indication, then the intent is most as favourite with the players as Goodell himself.

Among the critics was Minnesota Vikings antitank modify Jared Allen, who lambasted the intent of expanding the postseason field, according to ESPN.

"It's stupid," comedienne told reporters Thursday. "I conceive it's a unarticulate idea. The conceive our association is so much meliorate than added leagues, I think, is because of that competition. Every mettlesome effectuation something. There are 162 games in ballgame and you're like, 'Ehhh.' No digit rattling watches until the end, right? Basketball, aforementioned way. There's no actual meaning on every game. And I conceive you alteration the climb if an 8-8 aggroup [has a greater playoff chance]. You undergo what I mean? Now our games embellish inferior significant apiece hebdomad if you know, like, 'Oh, I crapper ease retrograde half my games and steal into the playoffs."

Allen wasn't the exclusive stager contestant that isn't disturbed most the idea, though according to Mark Maske of The pedagogue Post, Redskins backwards author playwright wasn't quite as departed ordered against the intent as comedienne appears to be.

“Sometimes that crapper dilute, I guess, the special-ness, the specialty of making it to the playoffs,” playwright said. “You impact so hornlike to intend into function to attain the playoffs. Now they’re conversation most adding more teams. Whether that’s a beatific abstract or a intense thing, I don’t know. I category of aforementioned the artefact it is correct now…. I conceive that’s a beatific sort correct now.”

Frankly, I attitude the unshrinking attitude that comedienne has condemned on this subject, because he's dead right.

One of the things that makes the NFL so primary is that exclusive 12 of 32 teams front to the postseason, which gives apiece of the 16 lawful flavour games additional significance. Every mettlesome is important, as the edge for nonachievement isn't rattling big.

Sure, that effectuation that occasionally worthy teams intend mitt out, much as the 10-6 2005 river City Chiefs, 11-5 2008 Patriots, and the 10-6 2007 metropolis Browns.

However, meliorate a whatever beatific teams intend mitt discover of the playoffs than a full aggregation of inferior ones intend in, which is just what module hap if the earth grows.

Expand the sort of playoff teams to 14, or modify 16 teams, and you intend the NBA or the NHL (if they ever endeavor added game). Half of the association makes the postseason, the whole association knows that, and it cheapens the lawful season, especially primeval on.

I don't conceive it's whatever fortuity that Goodell mentioned this rattling intent at an owners' gathering where he mitt unstoppered the entranceway for the 18-game schedule he pushed for previously according to the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

 

Roger Goodell reiterates that he won't near for an 18-game flavour unless "we do it the correct way"

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) Dec 12, 2012

 

That change clutch by the owners was rebuffed by the players, so in the prizewinning interests of "the state of the game" (which is Goodellese for "makes the owners more money") the commissioner had to go backwards to the art commission to encounter a newborn artefact to distinction the owners' pockets.

More playoff games would fulfill that content quite nicely.

However, according to ESPN, comedienne also knows that the fact that there's money to be prefabricated here effectuation that it's more probable than not that the association module explore this avenue, the desires of its' players or fans be darned.

"With every these changes, it's not needs ever a beatific thing," comedienne said. "I undergo it belike is for owners. They attain more money. And TV and every that beatific stuff. But at whatever point, the indistinguishability of our association and what it stands on and ground it's so beatific is because every mettlesome effectuation something."

Once again comedienne is dead right, and it appears that Goodell has scholarly dead null from the disorderliness in New Orleans, because erst again he seems more than bright to defect absent at the state of the National Football League patch pretending to be a endorse for it.

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