Jerry Jones: Add four more teams

[Cowboysrule122]

By Tim MacMahon | ESPNDallas.com


Dallas Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones, a postseason spectator for the fourth consecutive year, is in favor of expanding the NFL playoffs.

"From the standpoint of looking at how exciting it is for a city or a community to be involved in the playoffs and the fact that you can have a team that might have literally operated at .500 or in that area ... you can have that team win the Super Bowl," Jones said Friday on 105.3 The Fan. "That makes a big case for adding a couple of more cities or communities that have NFL teams to the playoffs.

"It just creates that much more excitement and that much more interest for people in those communities. So I fall on the side of the ledger that would increase the playoffs."

Jones was answering a hypothetical question about adding two teams to the playoffs in each conference.

There has only been one team to win the Super Bowl with a single-digit regular-season win total in a non-strike-shortened season. That was the 2011 New York Giants, who went 9-7 and punched their ticket to the playoffs in Week 17 by defeating the Cowboys with the NFC East title at stake.

The Cowboys have finished 8-8 and lost a Week 17 game that determined the division champion in each of the last three seasons.

Dallas would not have qualified for the playoffs the last three seasons even if they were expanded to include an additional two teams per conference.

 

[Cowboysrule122]

Don't forget to mention it would make you look better because the current team can't win more than 8 games. Of course Jerry agrees with it.

 

[Midswat]

Fucking hate every god damned thing about this guy.

 

[dbair1967]

stupid ideas supported by stupid people

 

[Jon88]

I know he knows nothing about talent evaluation, but there isn't even enough talent for 32 teams right now.

Shut the fuck up for once in your life, Jerry.

 

[CobraKai]

Jerry isn't short-sighted enough to say add more teams just so we can make it.

The wild card made the playoffs better, there's no arguing that. In every league, the playoffs are better when you get more teams involved. The end of the season becomes more exciting, the playoffs are more exciting, more people are emotionally invested.

 

[dbair1967]

He doesn't care two shits about that Cobra

All he and the other owners care about is more playoff games = more dollars for them

 

[Jon88]

I don't care to make the NFL any crappier than it is.

Thanks though

 

[cmd34(work)]

If I can't bring the Cowboys to the playoffs, I'll bring the playoffs to us.

 

[cmd34(work)]

Dallas would not have qualified for the playoffs the last three seasons even if they were expanded to include an additional two teams per conference.

but we're so close? Right Hostile?

 

[CobraKai]

He doesn't care two shits about that Cobra

All he and the other owners care about is more playoff games = more dollars for them

So? Is there any way to argue that in the past, adding more teams has made it more exciting? If that also makes the owners more money, who cares?

 

[dbair1967]

NFL has had a 16 game schedule since 1978

Only one team with single digit wins won a super bowl

Only 3 total made it to the super bowl

Yeah, add more teams to playoffs. Sure there will ne an exception or two where that team was a 10-6 or 11-5 team, but for the most part these extra teams are going to be 8-8 or 9-7 (or in some cases, even 7-9) teams that don't deserve to be there and will get waxed in the game anyway.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

He doesn't care two shits about that Cobra

All he and the other owners care about is more playoff games = more dollars for them

That's it, all of it.

 

[dbair1967]

So? Is there any way to argue that in the past, adding more teams has made it more exciting? If that also makes the owners more money, who cares?

Once a decade or so a mediocre team catches lightning in a bottle and makes a real run at something.

I don't support anything that leads to a more mediocre product on the field. For the most part these extra teams will be ..500 teams that had no business making the playoffs otherwise, and the vast majority of the time will lose in one sided fashion.

 

[Cowboysrule122]

They need to leave it the way it is, we don't want to see any shit teams in the playoffs. ~Jerry~

 

[Jon88]

This was an opportunity to say someting in front of the microphone. He's talking out of his ass, as usual.

 

[CobraKai]

Once a decade or so a mediocre team catches lightning in a bottle and makes a real run at something.

I don't support anything that leads to a more mediocre product on the field. For the most part these extra teams will be ..500 teams that had no business making the playoffs otherwise, and the vast majority of the time will lose in one sided fashion.

None of that is what I asked you.

More teams make it more exciting. Purist ideas about what sort of quality the league should be are nonsense. We want excitement, they want ratings. Expanding the pool gives you both. Any downside is inconsequential.

 

[dbair1967]

None of that is what I asked you.

More teams make it more exciting. Purist ideas about what sort of quality the league should be are nonsense. We want excitement, they want ratings. Expanding the pool gives you both. Any downside is inconsequential.

Eh. More playoff teams doesn't mean its more exciting to me. I like the fact that the NFL only rewarded the best teams with postseason games.

 

[LAZARUS_LOGAN]

HEY JERRY! WHY NOT LET ALL TEAMS IN THE PLAYOFFS!

 

[dbair1967]

None of that is what I asked you.

More teams make it more exciting. Purist ideas about what sort of quality the league should be are nonsense. We want excitement, they want ratings. Expanding the pool gives you both. Any downside is inconsequential.

More bowl games= more exciting right?

That's why 95% of them play to half empty or more stadiums