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SI.com - Writers - Don Banks: NFL mulling changes to playoff format - Friday February 1, 2008 5:42PM

All hubris aside, the best thing I heard coming out of Goodell's annual address was that the NFL might tinker with its playoff seeding format. The league seems interested in trying to reduce the number of late-season games in which teams rest their starters because the outcomes have no bearing on the playoff races or seeds. By having it possible for a wild-card winner with a better record than a division champion to be seeded higher, the NFL could make more Week 16 and 17 games meaningful.