NFL owners’ meetings are over, but that does not mean that rules are completed for off -season. We already have a new key rule, overtime in the playoff series passing to the regular season and extended the rereading. Two things that were tabled during the meetings prohibited Tash’s thrust and changed the playoffs. The NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, likes the proposal of the Lions of Detroit which changes the playoffs and pushes for that.
“According to several sources, he became clear in last week’s league meetings that Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to eliminate the guaranteed home match for the teams who won their divisions,” said Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk.
“Goodell’s preference became clear at the meeting concerning the proposal made by the Lions … A source in the session hall said that Goodell was visibly irritated by resistance to measurement,” continued Florio.
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The lions’ proposal would give home matches to the team with the best record, not the team that won the division. Last year, the Lions beat the Vikings of the week 18 to win the NFC North. This sent the Minnesota on the road to face the Rams in the Tour des Jokers, and they lost. This change of rule would have made this game play at Minnesota.
Goodell believes that this change of rule will make matches at the end of the season more interesting. It would provide another wrinkle to mathematics in the playoffs but could make divisions less significant. Florio stresses that the Viking Lions game would have been effectively devoid of meaning if this rule was in place, because the two teams would have won the ground.
If this rule comes into force, it would probably have the northern impact of the NFC. They have four teams who think they are ready for the playoffs and can publish better records than the winner of the NFC South. Will Goodell push this rule change?
Christopher Hennessy is an assistant editor -in -chief of the MLB in Clutch Point, with additional expertise in the NHL and the Golf. He obtained a journalism diploma from Fordham University in 2022, and he had work experience at Spectrum News One in Albany, New York and with hockey writers as a journalist from the New York Islanders.
