NFL could change the playoff format for 2025: Here are the three options the league seems to be considering

By NFL’s annual meeting meeting last week in Detroit Lions made a proposal to change the league’s playoff format. The interesting thing about the proposal is that you don’t get voted down. Although NFL’s 32 owners do not approve the change, you do not agree to the table discussion to the next meeting in May.

There’s also a chance to make a playoff format could undergo a major change for 2025 times and a great thing that would be that Roger Goodell apparently wants to happen. Last week in NFL Commissioner said Postseason format was something that is definitely needed to evaluate.

As a thing standing, it’s starting to look like three legitimate options on the table for 2025, so let’s take a look at all three.

Option 1, approve the bills, the proposal

Under the lions, the proposal in seven teams in each conference still cost of four division champions and three wild-card teams. But the great change is that teams were nursery from anyone has the best record. Under this proposal, a wild-card team could be a seminal front of the division of the winner if the wild-card team has a better record.

If this proposal would have been in place of 2024, in the cargo (11-6) have been a fourth seed in AFC and would have been to the army to the fifth seminal weaver (10-7) for the other way. Also, the NFC Playff picture would have been turned on.

Here’s what NFC Playoff Seedings like in 2024:
I Lions (15-2)
2. Eagle (14-3)
3. Buccaners (10-7)
4. Rams (10-7)
V. Vikings (14-3)
6. Commanders (12-5)
7. Packers (11-6)

Here’s what I was like the Lions:
I Lions (15-2)
2. Eagle (14-3)
3. Vikings (14-3)
4. Commanders (12-5)
V. Packers (11-6)
6. Buccaneers (10-7)
7. Rams (10-7)

It’s a huge shift. A rams were in the only team who comes near to strike the eagles in the playoffs and Philadelphia would have to host them in a wild-card per. Also, the leaders and Vikings and I have got to host a playoff game for open postseason in the way. That could have been huge to the Vikings who got smoked in the way through 10-7 rams, 27-9.

When goodell asked about this proposition last week, he seemed to study about that.

“I thought it is very healthy proposal and very healthy point that you need to evaluate and continue to look at the” Goodell said. “I went through many different forms. There was some important information to show that you must really look at some form or version of this.”

Beside To talk forGoodell was “visibly irritant” and more teams not on the board with a possible change.

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Option 2: Appro a modified version of the lions, the proposal

When you can take all the pain to agree in the rule change, which is when you start to compromise and this would be in the compromise. Under this rule, the playoff format is similar to what is now with one big exception: Division winners would still get the army of a playoff game unless it finished with a loss of the record.

If this is the rule of the last time, which would not be used. As in the matter of the fact, the last time it was used, with 2022 with 8-9 buccaners won NFC south, which earned them the right army 12-5 Cowboys in a wild-card per. If the Rule had been in Cowboys host game with Tampa Bay finished the time of losing a record.

The ratio of the ownership of the fact that the rule is not a year. Over the past 25 years, this rule is only used four times: 2010 (Seahawks win NFC West at 7-9), 2014 (Panthers win NFC to 7-8-1).

Goodell of which this compromise appearance when asked the lions, the proposal of the CBS sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones.

“It was some discussion power about if you’re .500 or less and won the division if you also get home game? I think there was some interest in that too, “Goodell said.

If you are not willing to approve the proposal of the proposal, as you wish to vote.

Option 3: Keep the current playoff format

The playoff argue down heated last week and one reason is that there are a lot of teams and coaches who love the current format. Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin wants to see NFL to protect things to the way they are.

“I’m a division purist,” Tomlin said In the annual meeting meeting last week. “I love the division story. I love structure of our scheduling and highlights it. I think the division winners should take home playoff.”

If the playoff form is to change that it would work for 24 votes to what happened, it’s a vegetable if goodell can convince enough owners to push the change in.

In the next league meeting is scheduled for May 20-21 in Minnesota and that’s when we’ll find out whether there will be some changes to the playoff format for 2025.