[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

It's not so much that they didn't belong ... which they didn't by the way ... as it is that they both might be AT HOME in conference championship.

Teams should be seeded 1 through 6 on the same critera. I have no huge problem with giving an 8-8 division winner a playoff spot..but make them the 6th seed...and don't award them with home games.

I agree with Mark that if they both win two playoff games, one being at the home field of the #2 seed after traveling back East, it's hard to argue that they didn't belong. The thing is that circumstances often lead to records. SD was a team that lost it's best defensive player, had one of the all-time running backs playing injured all season, had the best tight end in the game playing hurt for a while and lost some pretty tough games during the season. In reality, they have been playing playoff football for the past six or seven games because a loss in any of them would have eliminated them. They belong. Arizona does too. It's not their fault that they play in a division that is weaker than baby piss. You might say they took off in the past couple of weeks in the regular season but that's because they could. They were guaranteed a playoff spot an their position was pretty much locked in.

I partly agree with Drugs too. I don't think that making them the sixth seed is the thing to do. Do like the NBA. Seed the division winners as 1-2-3-4....but have the playing site of all matchups decided by best record.