On Saturday, the Bills scored a touchdown on all seven drives (kneeldowns excluded) of a 47-17 win against the Patriots. The Winners and Losers of Wild-Card Weekend The Six Biggest Lessons From NFL Wild-Card Weekend The Cowboys’ Loss to the 49ers Was a Masterpiece in Mismanagement Raiders-Bengals and 49ers-Cowboys delivered one-score games that went down to the wire, but the other four contests had an average margin of victory of 22.5 points.
It was a fittingly lopsided end to a weekend of games that were, um, not very good or very competitive. This year, instead of splitting the games between Saturday and Sunday, the NFL stretched the schedule to put the final game of the slate, Rams-Cardinals, on Monday, when fans were treated to a 34-11 Rams blowout win. 2 seed and added two more games to the first round. These changes eliminated the first-round bye traditionally enjoyed by the no. It’s been two years since the NFL altered its playoff format to introduce an additional team in each conference to the postseason. But scarcity drives up the price of any commodity and the league will always have an incentive to try to sell more games, as long as they don’t become so abundant that it curbs fan appetite.įor example, the league just held its first three-day wild-card weekend. The league owns a day of the week in part because, most days, there is no football. Teams play only 17 games a season, so every game is a big deal. One of the NFL’s greatest features (along with high scoring, the college football pipeline, and Andy Reid food metaphors) is scarcity.