The commissioner hopes to reconfigure the playoff tree to make the seed game record without considering whether a team wins the department. The goal is not to promote equity in the playoffs who is at home and who is on the road. The goal is to make late-season games more attractive by giving the team more competition.

Whether this happens remains to be seen.

If the Commissioner did this (yes, the Lions proposed it, but the Union Office Incite it), in case of scheduling formulas, it creates a separate question.

Currently, each team plays: (1) six games against the other three teams of the other three teams; (2) four games against all teams in the meeting each year rotation; (3) two games against the remaining departments of the meeting ended in the same position in the previous year (first, second, third, fourth place); (4) four games in all teams in the other department rotated each year; (5) one game in the department ending in the same position as the previous year.

By devaluing the division champion and highlighting competition in the conference, the eight games created each year are conducted by efforts to secure a timeline and need to be reconsidered. Last year, NFC North’s team benefited from playing two weak departments – AFC South and NFC West. This year, it will be a very different story for the lion, the Vikings, the Packers and the Bears. They played eight games with teams from AFC North and NFC East.

Similarly, the Rams have a great chance to be No. 1 seed in 2025 as they will play eight games with teams from AFC South and NFC South.

If a team's record relative is not in its department, but is more important in a playoff tree based on total records, then the team needs to play more games in their meetings. Ideally, each team will play a game in a meeting with all the other teams - just like if a college meeting becomes too big to allow.

If the “Lion” proposal is passed, the fairest schedule structure will include 15 conference games and two mutual aid games. But this will greatly reduce the diversity of the timetable.

Our guess? 345 Park Avenue will not be troubled by this competitive integrity. The current efforts are designed to make late-season games more fun, and in turn more valuable to the network and, in turn, more valuable to the league.

If an overhaul schedule will happen, the effort of the team will be required. A powerful ground that overcomes alliance inertia will not care about the inequality from using Apple and track arrangements to create records that will be Apple to Apple.

So the best decision would be to kick this greedy-driven idea into 2026 and ask the Lions to resubmit suggestions on playoff seeding, which is how to change the scheduling formula to make the new approach more equitable, far beyond the changes in 2025.