Disappointing Ending

Well 2007 gets to end on a sour note for Browns fans. Not only was I wrong about the Browns winning 9 games (they actually won 10), but they didn't make the playoffs. That's right 10 wins and they get left out of the playoffs, but in the NFC 9 wins gets you in. Maybe it is just me, but I think it is time for Roger Goodell to make his first mark on the league and expand the playoffs to 16 teams. They can still keep their re-seeding after the first round to help out the teams that did really well in the regular season, but it is time to get rid of the bye week for two teams in each conference and let two more teams in and let everyone play the first weekend. They expanded the playoffs to 12 teams when their were only like what 28 teams or so, but since then the league has expanded multiple times (the new Browns, Texans, and Jags and Panthers). But does expansion really mean they should expand the playoffs. Yes. Baseball finally caught up a little bit when they added another round, but their season is too limited and the World Series in November really works against them. They would have to shorten their season in order to accommodate longer playoffs, but that would cost revenue due to the lack of teams playing, even though the games would mean more. Football though only goes for 17 weeks and could easily add more teams, because it wouldn't lengthen the playoffs anymore. They could play Friday night Saturday and Sunday. It is a no lose situation for the league because it adds four more money games on the biggest weekend of the playoffs. Anyway I will no longer root for the Indianap0lis C0lts and I hope they get beat the first game they play in. I am tired of this "we need to rest players" crap, they're getting an extra week off anyway. And then your gonna go out and give a half an effort anyway, what kind of message does that send to your team and your fans. Well we can throw this game away cause we did so good in the other ones. That's garbage I want my team to beat all comers, they are giving their "A" game you should at least give yours. If not you know what don't even play, just forfeit the game, don't travel or have the other team travel, then you really don't have to worry about "injuries". I was proud of the Browns for playing everyone even though the game was essentially "meaningless" and even though Derek Anderson got hurt he came back. Although I would have liked to seen Brady Quinn stay in the game (his very first drive ever he took them down and scored a field goal with less than two minutes left in the half, no wonder Derek wanted back in the game). Anyway will look forward to the off season and a probable first round exit by the Steel-towners, since they took this week off the assured themselves of another game against a Jacksonville team that just beat them in Pittsburgh. Good thinking Mike Tomlin, then if you do win you get to play at New England, in all likelihood. Plus they don't have Willy, it is like I said I think the honeymoon with Mike will end pretty shortly, this was his first really big strategical error, and I could be wrong, but ending the season losing 3 out of 4 games is not the way to enter the playoffs. You know what if Cleveland would have got the call at the end of the Arizona game when Kellen Winslow made an incredible catch and got shoved out of bounds but the ref didn't call it, then Cleveland would be in and Pittsburgh wouldn't. Oh Well. That is another change they need to make, if the defender can push the guy out of bounds before he comes down that should just be incomplete, as long as he doesn't pick the guy up an carry him out of bounds, that way only the catch is reviewable and the Judgement part of the call is taken out. It is a completely miss used call anyway. Come on 2008 I can't wait.