NFL meetings are going on in Dana Point, CA (beautiful area, I visited there last year on Spring Break)......proposed idea about changing the draft order of playoff teams. IMO, it makes sense, the Chargers shouldn't be picking ahead of the Jets. COMPETITION COMMITTEE PROPOSES CHANGE TO DRAFT ORDER Posted by Mike Florio on March 19, 2009, 11:30 a.m. Various news reports have listed some of the rules changes that the Competition Committee will be proposing to the owners for consideration at upcoming league meetings in California. Frankly, we haven’t busted our humps to list them all because the owners have shown in the past that they’re not averse to ignoring the advice of the Competition Committee. But one of the proposed changes has gotten our attention. The Competition Committee has suggested re-ordering the bottom of round one of the draft based not upon the record of the playoffs teams, but when they exit the tournament. “A team can win a playoff game and yet get to pick [in the draft] before the team it beat,” Falcons president Rich McKay said. Actually, under the current structure, a team can make it to the conference finals and pick before a team that didn’t even get to the playoffs at all. As it now stands, the 30 teams that don’t qualify for the Super Bowl are ranked by record, regardless of whether they qualify for the postseason. As a result, there will be years in which a playoff team picks before a playoff team that it defeated, and years in which a playoff team picks before a non-playoff team. This year, there’s both. The Eagles, at No. 21, pick a spot before the Vikings, even though the Eagles beat the Vikings in the wild-card round. Also, the Eagles pick two spots before the Patriots, even though Philly played in the NFC title game. The Patriots, despite an 11-5 record, didn’t qualify for the postseason. Likewise, the Chargers pick at No. 16, before five teams that didn’t participate in a playoff game (Jets, Bears, Bucs, Cowboys, Pats) and eleven spots before the team San Diego beat in the playoffs, the Colts. Though the explanation tacked onto the bottom of the AP article isn’t as clear as we’d like, it appears that the new procedure (if accepted by the owners) will give the 20 non-playoff teams the first 20 spots in the draft, with the next 12 teams being placed based on when they exited the tournament. In other words, the wild-card weekend losers would hold spots 21 through 24, with specific placement based on regular-season record. Division-round losers would pick from 25 to 28. The conference runners-up would have spots 29 and 30, and the Super Bowl teams would get 31 and 32. Hopefully, this is one proposal that the owners will accept. Especially since we proposed this idea in January.
hmm intressting. I thought the article was going to be about how people wanted a lottery which is awful but what they propose makes sense however ( I could be misreading this) if a team wins the division with an outright great record 11-13 wins, but gets ousted in the first round then it would have a higher pick than like a miracle super bowl team (ie the cardinals) that could be an issue
I dont think it would be much of one what team that wins the SB is gonna bitch about picking 3 or 4 spots later in draft. Id much rather have that ring.
San Diego made the playoffs with an 8-8 record, loses it's 1st game in the playoffs, and picks ahead of the Jets and 4 other teams....which is wrong. The further a team advances in the playoffs, the higher their pick, (all playoff teams would be 21-32) let's hope this is approved by the NFL. It's common sense and usually the NFL get these things right.....not like MLB, but that's for another topic.
They actually won their first playoff game and advanced to the divisional round which it makes it even more ludicrous that they pick ahead of the jets
Yeah, the current ordering with playoff teams never made sense to me, they really need to change it. I hope this goes through.
