The Jets will make the playoffs due to two teams laying down:

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Huh? Please try to make some sense when you post.

(I hate to sound like I'm attacking you personally, but a lot of your posts are hard to read)

Not real hard.....

If every team owner recieved  ten thousand dollars for each win, the Colts would have still have benched the starters.

If every team owner recieved  ten million dollars for each win, the leauge could not afford that or teams like the 2007 Dolphins or 2008 Lions would go bancrupt.   

[Philly Fin Fan]

^^^ I never said anything about team owners receiving money. I mentioned incentive laden contracts for players and coaches.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

^^^ I never said anything about team owners receiving money. I mentioned incentive laden contracts for players and coaches.

Players wouldn't matter.  If the Colts at a bonus in Peyton's contract based on playing time then the Colts just saved themselves some cap space.

As for coaches you are going to have an NFL policy ordering teams to have the coaches contract have incentives for the number of wins. 

Its your post that makes no sense.  The NFL doesn't pay players or coaches.  The teams do.  Those teams are also the ones making the decision to rest players.

[Philly Fin Fan]

Its your post that makes no sense. 

You may not agree with my post, and that's fine,  but I meant the grammar in your post made no sense. I was unable to comprehend what you were saying due to incomplete sentences. That's why I apologized if it sounded like a personal attack. I was merely trying to figure out the point you were trying to make.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

Man, Cincy should be banned from the playoffs the way they are playing tonight.  It's one thing to get blown out, but this is fucking ridiculous.

[dolphantom]

Man, Cincy should be banned from the playoffs the way they are playing tonight.  It's one thing to get blown out, but this is fucking ridiculous.

just a smokescreen, tommy. i don't care how good the jets played, or what the stats say, when all is said and done they are still the jets. cincy will rebound at home and run it up, the way the jets did to them tonight. the jets are not as good as the stats show them to be. # 1 defense with a 9-7 record?  backing into the playoffs with luck? blowing out a cincy team in a basically meaningless game? i'm sure cincy did not want to go out like they did, but make no mistake, they should bring it next week at home. its going to be a different game next week with all of the starters in, and something to play for..

[MaineDolFan]

^^Either way, it's disgusting that a team made the playoffs due to two teams, Indy and Cincy, laying down for them in back to back weeks.  Meanwhile a much more deserving 9-7 team (Houston) is sitting home and outside looking in.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

^^Either way, it's disgusting that a team made the playoffs due to two teams, Indy and Cincy, laying down for them in back to back weeks.  Meanwhile a much more deserving 9-7 team (Houston) is sitting home and outside looking in.

There is no such thing as a deserving 9-7 teams.  And 11-5 team looking in, absolutely.  A 10-6 looking in maybe.  But not a 9-7 team. 

[MaineDolFan]

Team A: Houston Texans = 9-7.  All nine wins hard fought and earned.

Team B: New York Jets = 9-7.  Two of nine victories came as a direct result of their opponent basically allowing them to win.

While I would agree with you under normal circumstances - this year the Jets have taken a playoff spot away from a more deserving franchise.  One that, frankly, had much more reason to think they would actually do some damage IF in. 

[Tepop84]

Expanding the season would help this problem.  It wouldn't congest teams at (7-9) - (9-7) and one team playing starters only one half wouldn't matter that much.  The way the schedule is currently, one gimme win in 16 games is too much.

[TonyB0D]

the jets are going to make it to the AFC championship, which will end up being in giants stadium, which is the best home crowd in the league.  it will be insane, and they will make it to the superbowl. 

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Expanding the season would help this problem.  It wouldn't congest teams at (7-9) - (9-7) and one team playing starters only one half wouldn't matter that much.  The way the schedule is currently, one gimme win in 16 games is too much.

Actually it could make it worse.  With 18 games it is possible that for even more teams to clinch a playoff spot 1 2 or 3 weeks before the end of the season.  We might even have situations were the entire set of week 18 games are meaningless. 

[dolphantom]

the jets are going to make it to the AFC championship, which will end up being in giants stadium, which is the best home crowd in the league.  it will be insane, and they will make it to the superbowl. 

if you really believe this, you should be locked up for use of illegal narcotics.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

the jets are going to make it to the AFC championship, which will end up being in giants stadium, which is the best home crowd in the league.  it will be insane, and they will make it to the superbowl. 

So you have the Jets beating Cinci, Chargers and Ravens and the Ravens beating NE and Colts?

[dolphantom]

There is no such thing as a deserving 9-7 teams.  And 11-5 team looking in, absolutely.  A 10-6 looking in maybe.  But not a 9-7 team. 

i definately agree.

Team A: Houston Texans = 9-7.  All nine wins hard fought and earned.

Team B: New York Jets = 9-7.  Two of nine victories came as a direct result of their opponent basically allowing them to win.

While I would agree with you under normal circumstances - this year the Jets have taken a playoff spot away from a more deserving franchise.  One that, frankly, had much more reason to think they would actually do some damage IF in. 

i see your point , and it is valid. however, i agree with hoodie on this. i don't care how hard fought the wins were, after all is said and done, 9-7 is still 9-7.  and with that record, you really shouldn't be in the mix at all. i hate the wild card. all it does is give mediocre teams a shot at winning by circumstance, luck, and from momentum at the right time. it cheats the teams that have legitimately dominated all year.  just like when the steelers won from a wildcard spot a few years ago.