Lions withdraw proposal to alter NFL playoff seeding

EAGAN, Minn. — The Detroit Lions withdrew their proposal to reseed the NFL playoffs simply earlier than league conferences resumed Wednesday.

In an effort to maintain late-season video games extra aggressive, the Lions had proposed a bylaw that may assure solely the division winner in every convention with one of the best file a house playoff sport. The remainder of the playoff area would have been seeded strictly by file.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, a member of the competitors committee, wasn’t in favor of the reseeding proposal when it was first mentioned on the April league assembly in Palm Seaside, Florida.

“I am a division purist, to be fairly sincere with you,” he mentioned. “I really like the rivalries which might be division play. I really like the construction of our scheduling that highlights it. I simply categorized myself as a division purist. I believe the division winner ought to get a house playoff sport.”

Although there is a need amongst NFL executives to make late-season video games extra thrilling and incentivize groups to play their starters in Week 18, there wasn’t sufficient help from league homeowners to approve Detroit’s proposal, so the Lions withdrew it earlier than a proper vote. It may very well be revisited sooner or later, particularly because the NFL pushes to develop to an 18-game schedule.