the Colts, too, want Big Ben on a couch with a remote ...

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Re: the Colts, too, want Big Ben on a couch with a remote ...

This system works brilliantly.

Only in this system do a team who lost 5 straight games (to some of the league's worst teams) even have a hope of making the postseason. In other words, you can tank 1/3 of your season, and you still can entertain hopes of making the playoffs.

Same goes for Houston, who... everytime they've had a chance to step up thi syear, have fallen flat on their faces. Every time. And they are still in it.

The Jets, with horrendous play from their rookie QB... and their coach who essentially waved the white flag last week... still have a shot.

As stated. there is no perfect system. But this system works really well, keeping teams on respirators when they all but laid down and died already.

The system is actually quite broken. The Jets just got gifted into the playoffs by game timing, not by playing playoff quality ball. A system that ain't broke allows the 6 best teams in and doesn't allow situations where games that are meaningless to one contender can artificially keep one team out and put another one in.

Which wouldn't be a big deal if we were talking about the NFC since the real Super Bowl is ultimitely the AFC Championship game