Saints Could Be Victim Of NFL Playoff Format
Due to the NFL playoff format, it's possible he Saints could finish the year at 13-3, but still have to travel, to face a 7-9 team in the wild-card round. Guerry Smith, of the New Orleans Sports Examiner, has the story, below.
Harry Connick Jr. leads a float out onto the field which carried the VInce Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy won last year by the New Orleans Saints prior to the Saints playing against the Minnesota Vikings at Louisiana Superdome on September 9, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Courtesy---Guerry Smith/New Orleans Sports Examiner
The most surprising thing about the NFL’s playoff format is not that New Orleans could go 13-3 and end up playing on the road against a 7-9 team in the wildcard round. It’s that similar absurdities happened so rarely in the first eight years of the preposterous current system.
When the league went from six divisions to eight in 2002, it asked the wildcard with the best record in each conference to travel to the division winner with the worst record on the opening playoff weekend. That’s a recipe for ridiculous matchups.
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