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NFL Wild Card Weekend -- Nazareth, live from Philadelphia

My beef isn't with Herbert, but with those who seem to prematurely declare a guy an HOFer or a bust based on their most recent game There is no "in between." Mayfield is on his fourth team and in the playoffs. Goff is enjoying a bye week, Darnold plays tomorrow night. The Browns weren't the only team willing to trade for Watson during his legal issues. While some QBs start hot and level off, others start slow or are surrounded by a crap team. That's all I meant about the Herbert discussion. American Media has no memory beyond the last week.

The Herbert FRAUD thing wasn't directed at your post, just at the general discourse and the gap between the elite QBs in the AFC and the very good/very promising ones. I agree it's too early to say anything about where Herbert is going to end up.
 
18 regular-season games will make the quality of play better.

I suppose having seven teams per conference isn't the worst thing, but it isn't going to lead to tons of good first weekend games. Only one seven seed has won a game so far.

You have teams making barely making it in playing one of the league's best teams right out of the gate. The early matchups would be a lot more even otherwise. Probably like if college redid how they seed.

That said, everything after the first weekend is still pretty good if not great so it evens out.

Despite all that, I don't think I'd hate going to eight teams. Why not? The one bye seems kind of awkward.
 

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