you can tell its the slowest time of the year FA has calmed down and now we wait for the draft..
How much time do you have on your hands?
LOL
very informative bro, one thing i love about this site..i learn more than i ever needed about my favorite team

Thanks

But I have established a true distain for the rest of the AFC and would hate to have to regroup.

I’ll bet the numbers are very close.

the travel aspect is HUGE. take it from me, i’ve flown around the world at least 5 times, and 2 of those times were within a 2 week period. The hassle of flying, the jet lag, and the annoyance is enough to really wipe out your energy. idk how football teams do it every other week for 4 months a year. Its gotta be rough.

they are all alone up there in the north-western part of the country…in our division all the teams are up in the NE region which is very jampacked in there, with 2 of the teams being in the same state, and with us being the southern most team in the NFL, it is a clear disadvantage for us, but i think we have faired pretty well…i am torn about whether to realign…while yes there will be lower costs, more potential to go to an away divisional game (like goin to jax, tampa, and even new orleans or atlanta) for games would be great and much cheaper and easier than going to NY, Buffalo or Boston, it would probably create even more of a rivalry (the closer the teams are to each other geographically the more hatred there seems to be between the teams, just look at college rivalries)…but if you do change the system, you are going to be killing the current great rivalries that exist in the game today, and there will be a huge adjustment for everybody psychologically as well as the skematics and all the other stuff that needs to be worked out…oh and they would probably need to get more teams in the west to balance it out a bit

I ran autotags but that isn’t recognizing all the team names, any help?

It won’t impact our beloved Phins. If the NFL wanted to change our division then they would have kept Indianapolis in the AFC East and put us in the AFC South (where we would have been coasting to division titles every year like the Colts have basically done). You look at the old divisions and what rivalries existed and it was obvious that the southernmost AFC East team belongs in the South when you have 4 other teams in the northern half of the country.

But making a division with the Texans, Titans, Jaguars, and Dolphins would have been a marketing disaster in that the Dolphins had been rivals of the Bills, Patriots, and Jets since their inception. Historically, it just made sense to make a new division comprised of two teams that hadn’t existed for a decade, a revamped franchise (Titans), and the odd man out from another division (Colts being the only obvious choice)

link at the bottom of the post

as much as i love the AFC East competition i believe that if it was Miami, Tampa, Jax, and Atlanta (Southeast Division) that in a couple years it would be a serious rivalry just like cowpunk said.

As for the others…
I’d like to see the Niners, Raiders, Chargers and Hawks- West Division
Cards, Broncos, Texans and Cowboys in the Southwest
Titans, Saints, Panthers and Cincinatti aren’t super close but would make up the East
Vikings, Pack, Bears,and Lions stay in the North
Chiefs, Rams, Colts and Steelers make the Midwest division
Pats, Jets. Cleveland and Bills in the Northeast division
Eagles, Giants Redskins and Ravens in the Coastal

this would be my proposal, curious to see how u do it saw!
rec’d btw

If I may throw my 2 cents in…here’s my idea (would require some teams to move)

Southeast: Dolphins, Jaguars, Buccaneers, Falcons
Southwest: Texans, Cowboys, Saints, Bills (San Antonio)
Northeast: Patriots, Jets, Giants, Eagles
Federal: Redskins, Ravens, Steelers, Browns
North: Packers, Vikings, Bears, Lions (NFC North stands pat)
Mideast: Titans, Panthers, Bengals, Colts
Pacific: Chargers, Raiders, 49ers, Cardinals (One of these teams to Los Angeles)
Plains: Rams, Chiefs, Broncos, Seahawks (Oklahoma City)

Travel is a mindset. I’ve been doing it for 25 years.
It can be coached, taught, & learned.
The time zone theory is a head game.

and I’m still not satisfied. I’ll post the realignment stats as soon as I’m done. The first one I’m doing has the current 32 teams staying in place.

The next one I do will have a team or two relocated. That one will be easy because adding teams like LA and San Antonio drastically improves the stats in regards to teams related to the West and Southwest areas.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t really enjoying this project. Trying to balance out a mix of rivalries and new divisions is like trying to put a puzzle together.

Now if they moved Seattle to Vegas and Denver to Salt Lake City, AFC West would make more sense!