In addition, they have to play against six other teams inside the Conference and four teams in the division outside the Conference. In a nutshell, it will be:. The seven strongest teams from each Conference will proceed to the Playoff round. These include eight winning teams in their respective divisions and six wild cards. The wild cards are the best performing of the losing teams. Based on the results from the regular season, the teams will get their order back from seeded 1 to 7. The top-seeded teams will have the first week to rest.
The Wild Card round is the first round of the Playoffs. Here, three winning teams from a division will play against three groups of wild cards. The second round of the Playoffs is the Divisional round. The remaining two teams will face each other.
The Conference Championships took place with four winners in the Divisional round. They will have to fight for a spot at the Super Bowl. The event is one of the most epic in American sports history. The reason why it attracts so many viewers is that it only happens once.
It is different from other sports where teams have to go through matches to find the winner. The mid-time programs of the Super Bowl with the presence of famous stars are also a highlight for the program.
Imagine being able to witness a historic Final and see A-list celebrities at the same time. You can watch this video to understand the heat of the Super Bowl halftime shows. It will be challenging to watch the entire game for 18 weeks in a season. Their matches are also desirable and thrilling. On January , , the post-season will begin with a Wild Card Round. The Division Round will follow from January The NFL announced today its first-ever week, game regular-season schedule for , which kicks off on Thursday night, September 9, in Tampa Bay and concludes with 16 division games in Week 18 — two on Saturday, January 8, and 14 on Sunday, January 9.
The NFL schedule, Powered by AWS, will feature each team playing 17 regular-season games and three preseason games for the first time, providing fans an extra week of regular-season action.
It marks the first change to the season structure since the campaign ushered in an era of 16 regular-season and four preseason games. The 17th game will feature teams from opposing conferences that finished in the same standing within their respective divisions the previous season. The AFC was determined to be the home conference for the 17th game in Week 1 continues Sunday, September 12, with a double-doubleheader featuring four Sunday afternoon games in every market and intriguing matchups in both conferences.
There will be no Monday night game on the final regular-season weekend Week 18 to provide more flexibility for the scheduling of the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs. These games will be selected following the conclusion of Week Kickoff times for primetime games will remain unchanged this season.
Monday and Saturday night games will kick off at ET. Sunday and Thursday night games will kick at ET. Once again this season, all 32 clubs will have at least one nationally televised game. Under the old agreement, players were paid in 17 weekly installments during the regular season -- one for each game and one for the bye week. The pay schedule, however, does not remain the same. Under the new CBA, players may be paid over a period of 34 weeks for any league year in which the regular season is 16 games or over 36 weeks for any league year in which the regular season is 17 games.
This was a change the players pushed for, as it allows them to get paid for a larger chunk of the year than just in-season.
The NFL's schedule won't be out for several more weeks, but the formula that decides each team's opponents means teams have known for months who they'd be playing if the schedule had remained at 16 games. Adding the extra game means adding an extra opponent, and the owners voted some months ago on a format that would determine that extra opponent based on division standings from the previous year. The league will match each division with a division in the other conference, rotating those matchups each season, and the team that finished first in one will play the team that finished first in the other, and so on.
The current plan is to match interconference divisions that played each other two years ago, which means that, in this first game season:. And so on. With each team playing 17 games in a season, the league's schedule symmetry vanishes.
Half of the league's teams will play nine home games in the regular season, while the other half will play nine road games in the regular season. Not really, but everybody is getting rich off the deal, so they're just going to have to live with it. To maintain some level of equity, the owners have proposed a system under which one conference's teams would get the extra home game one season and the other conference's teams would get the extra home game the next.
Not even Jeff Fisher could go under this format. Teams could go , maybe, but it's going to be extremely unusual for a team to finish exactly. Good question, but I don't see that being an issue. Sure, records for most rushing, receiving and passing yards that were set in game seasons are all in jeopardy now that those seeking to beat them get an extra game to do it. But this has happened before. Prior to , the NFL's regular season was just 14 games. Obviously, a large majority of the league's volume-based records have been set since the expansion to 16 games 43 years ago.
And surely, 43 years from now, we'll look back well, maybe you will and say that all of the records had been broken and rebroken several times since The first time someone goes over 2, receiving yards in a season, some Scrooge somewhere is going to say, "Yeah, but Calvin Johnson set the record in only 16 games," and they're going to be right.
But that's just the way of the sports world. We aren't used to it in football because, well, it has been 43 years since we had a change like this. They didn't even have Twitter then so everybody could find out what literally everybody else in the world thought about the change. Can you imagine?
The CBA specifies that the league cannot expand the regular season beyond 17 games for the life of the deal, which runs through So the soonest the owners could expand to 18 games would be , unless the players agreed to open up the CBA and renegotiate it, which would be a whole thing.
Sixteen extra games per season offers the league an opportunity to fill some of the new spaces on the TV schedule that will result from the new TV deals, whether that's Monday Night doubleheaders, late-season Saturday games or Sunday morning-window games in other countries.
One of the topics in Tuesday's owners discussion was the future of international games, with Canada, Germany, Mexico, Brazil and the United Kingdom all discussed as potential sites. Beginning in , all 32 teams will play internationally at least once every eight years. Absolutely possible. Look, those of us who have been in NFL locker rooms in December and January know this is no small thing.
These guys are badly beaten up by the end of a game season, and it's only going to be worse once it's Players are going to have to figure out the best way to manage themselves through a longer season, and it's entirely possible that extra rest along the way will be a part of it.
Coaches -- especially coaches of playoff-bound teams -- are going to have to figure out the best way to manage their players through a longer season, and of course it's possible that means more guys sitting in Weeks 17 and 18 just to make sure they're in shape to play in the postseason. There's likely going to be a lot of trial and error on this front in the first couple of years as everybody gets used to it.
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