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Quote from Don Banks at SI:
That means a bye for ONLY the #1 seed, right? That stinks. Altho it will make the last week of the regular season even wilder.
One change the league will be making, albeit not at these owners meetings? The move to expand the playoff field to 14 teams, from its current format of 12, is seen as a fait accompli, even by some long-time opponents to playoff expansion. The league will discuss the idea here, but it's not thought to be ready to implement until the 2015 season.
"I'm afraid so, it's going to happen,'' one influential club executive said, having never been in favor of expanding the playoffs. "It's something [commissioner] Roger [Goodell] seems to want, and experience says he's probably going to get it.''
Said another big-market club official: "The support for 14 teams in the playoffs is there now. That's going to happen. It's not a matter of if, but when.''
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That means a bye for ONLY the #1 seed, right? That stinks. Altho it will make the last week of the regular season even wilder.