[Alberta's Child]

Good point. The problem, though, comes when you have wild-card contenders from different divisions. Imagine the scenario of a 10-6 team that doesn’t even make the playoffs because they lost a wild-card tiebreaker to another 10-6 team in a different division that went 6-0 against three very weak division opponents during the course of the year, and went 4-6 against the rest of the NFL.

[Dr. Sivana]

. Imagine the scenario of a 10-6 team that doesn’t even make the playoffs because they lost a wild-card tiebreaker to another 10-6 team in a different division that went 6-0 against three very weak division opponents during the course of the year, and went 4-6 against the rest of the NFL

With such a short schedule (compared to other sports. The NFL used to be a 10 game affair.), this is an iresolvable problem, as the one good team in a bad division never gets to play themselves. Despite the NFLs efforts at providing easier schedules for worse teams, the Bills always have to play the Patriots twice, but the Patriots get to play the Bills instead.