You are fixated on downplaying the strength of the ALE.
Yes, we lucked out by playing the NLE not the NLW, and we did poorly vs the ALW, but if we end up with four 90 win teams, I think that will speak for itself.
Part of me would like to see as balanced a schedule as can be made with no divisions and the top 8 teams making the playoffs.
Another part would like to see both leagues merged into regionalized divisions where new rivalries would be formed and travel time cut down, but the schedules would be unbalanced. That is where wild card slots make sense. Maybe make 5 divisions of 6 teams with 3 WC teams (I'd be okay with the 3rd WC slot being filled with a play-in game by #8 & #9.) You could go 6 divisions of 5 teams with 2 WCs.
Maybe disband 2 teams and go with 4 divisions of 7 teams or 7 divisions of 4 teams with just 1 WC or a WC play-in game.
Me too, and that’s why I’m pretty careful to not be critical of Cora.
He gets a lot of thing right.
The funny part was, we thought the choice was made because of D, and it likely was, but the O was what did it.