Summary
You can hear the disgust in Baldinger's voice as he calls off potential second-level NFC playoff teams. "Green Bay's defense has huge holes. Does Minnesota's defense sit in the same room together during the week? They play as if they don't know each other. Seattle has no toughness. St. Louis is strictly an exhibition team; they shouldn't even be playing games.
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Giving Parity a Bad Name
So I phone my contact in the NFL office. I ask him, "Can't we cancel the NFC playoffs?"
He sounds stunned. "But we can't. It's part of the schedule.""But," I reply, "schedules can be altered. That's what my wife tells me every day. What's the sense of having a playoff in that conference? Everyone already knows the Eagles are the best team. Maybe you can skip right to the title game and have them play the Falcons. I can live with that. But the rest of those clubs, I mean, be serious."He pauses for the longest time. I think maybe I am making some progress. But it turns out he has been distracted by something on NFL...See the full content of this document
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