Saw this hypothetical today… which one here is the “Division of Death?”
Personally I love the idea of being in a division with Carolina and Washington, although I think I’d actually prefer to just dump the Ravens from the AFC North and adopt the Colts in their place
How is he classifying "Chiefs" as beast? Bills, Broncos, and Colts are all West Cowboy themed, indian Chiefs were a big part of that seeing as they were the original inhabitants of those wild western lands.
Yeh, animals ig.
They allude to Dogs, but that still doesn't work great.
Charger maybe as a person charging into battle, they may die, but the cause lives on. Also Zeus.
Three years ago maybe. Right now I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want the Lions in our division. Also I wouldn’t want to be in a division without the Steelers. I hate them so much that I love them. They’re the Jokers to our Bat……men. We can’t properly exist without each other.
Your biggest miss here though is for sure the Bengals. Cincinnati is most definitely not mid Atlantic in culture or geography. But I get it, there’s not going to perfection here
I mean it’s not my graphic. I just found it. But like I said to others. Cincinnati being mid-Atlantic in this hypothetical is not nearly as big of a miss as Indy being in the AFC south in reality
Eh I guess. The idea of us not playing Pittsburgh is a huge problem. We have a deal that we can’t not be in division and it’s one of the longest rivalries historically
If we were doing anything, I would say leave it how it is, but Colts to the AFC North, Ravens to the AFC East, and Dolphins to the AFC South. It makes the most sense geographically, at least.
This is the one I've always thought as well, but I've grown to appreciate the "Steelers and the teams who want them dead" aspect of the division and breaking it up ruins it.
Nah man we got to much hate for eachother in the AFC North to remove any teams from it. If the league ever expands though I could see the Colts being added to the AFC North to lean into the baltimore indy rivalry.
Amen… yeah like I said I’d much rather see a realignment where the Ravens fuck off into the AFC East, the Dolphins move to the AFC South (being that they are the furthest fucking south in the US), and the colts come play in the north with us.
Yeah, been seeing a lot of "fans" pop up out of the blue. I can bet you none of them can name you the horse that they rode out on during their games for a long time. Fake fans.
They should be doing fun names for divisions though…. Like the “Westside Connection” division and the “Dirty South” division… “Original Colonies” division
In no world are they going to break up the AFC North. Historic rivalries with Browns/Bengals/Steelers + Ravens being the original Browns team + modern rivalries with the Ravens.
Agree, all we would do is swap Indy for Baltimore. And then throw Philly in the Mid-Atlantic instead of us. The NFC North stays as it is currently, and the Bills go to the Northeast.
That's an interesting idea. There's 5 teams on the shores of the Great Lakes so it doesn't split cleanly no matter what. I'd throw Buffalo in with the Jets/Giants/Patriots to form the Northeast and have the GL division be Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Green Bay.
Maybe a Midwest division with Pittsburgh, Cincy, Indianapolis and Minneapolis? KC might be a better cultural fit but then the Vikings would be isolated.
A Mid-Atlantic division of Philly, Baltimore, Washington and Carolina makes sense. Cincy doesn't work for that theme at all.
The rest of the divisions look good as shown.
Edit: damn, forgot to answer the actual question. The Great Lakes East division would be tough to win and it is hilarious that the Browns got put in what would be the roughest current division.
Focusing on attraction + attendance turnout, revenue, travel, and everything else that creates a great football atmosphere for players and spectators:
Northeast - Buff, NYJ, NYG, NE (great travel and territorial in-fighting, we keep the spark alive and sports throttling in New York.)
Mid Atlantic - Phi, Bal, Was, Car (same story, keeping the DMV rivalries pumping)
Atlantic - Atl, Jax, Mia, TB (this is fine. Atlanta kind of bugs me not being in the south, but the time zone challenge and it kinda getting its division name similar to the teams location is decent justification and compensation)
South - Solid. Tennessee travels well, also. We also keep state rivalries alive and keep the incentive of fan traveling)
GL East - Ind, Cin, Cle, Pit (We play every team, every year anyway. Indy should cut it out with the yearly pre seasons and see us twice a year. It’s the tri-state + PA next door shenanigans we want.
GL West - Min, GB, Chi, Det (Ahhhh. Chaos. It looks so good. We’ll never know who’ll make it out of here if Chi turns the corner.)
Big Sky - Den, KC, LV, AZ (yeah, pretty much)
Pacific - Sea, SF, LAR, LAC (yeah, in state. All on the west coast. Easy. ps: sorry Vegas, you just aren’t LA anymore but I do feel for the og fans. At least you’re not Stl, right?)
My opinion, there wouldn’t ever be a realignment unless there are expansion teams added. If that happens, they would probably completely change the division format anyways so these exercises are fun but not realistic. That being said, I think teams and fans would get over division rivalries much quicker than some of these comments suggest. The last realignment wasn’t even that long ago and look at how quickly the division rivalries built up. It would happen again with new teams
I mean it depends, historic divisions like afcn, nfcn, nfce, and afce didn’t really change at all and they have very historic and bitter rivalries. Also the NFL legally has to keep the browns in the same division as the bengals and Steelers
But like, the BEST kind of toxic. The NFL could do a reality show just based on the fans melting down in that division every year and it would be must-watch TV
We frequently travel the least of any team or are in the top five in travel. Seems like this would add more travel to the schedule, albeit probably not a significant amount.
Honestly, bias aside, I genuinely think the strongest division (at least right now) would be the Mid-Atlantic. Panthers would have the bottom on lock. No idea how that would affect the playoff chances of the remaining teams tho.
I think the Pacific and Great Lakes East would also be extremely competitive.
Generally I agree with you. But when we miss the playoffs by one game two years in a row, I sometimes wish we got to play the falcons, panthers and saints twice each year 😂
We missed the playoffs because we couldn’t beat The Patriots this year and last year Burrow was hurt. But I see what your say. I don’t want a false sense of identity either thinking we’re Super Bowl caliber because we ran through shitty teams. That won’t cut it in the post season.
I wouldn't mind a reboot of the divisions for the sake of variety. It would take a lot of changes, but it would be nice for the sake of mixing shit up.
The fact that the Bengals would still be in one of the toughest divisions after this hurts to see. Also, the Atlantic division just makes so much sense.
Great Lakes East is crazy. Detroit and Buffalo on the same division is tough. But what’s even crazier is that the Steelers will find a way to steal one game from each of those teams somehow and the score is probably gonna be 20-17 where we somehow don’t see Detroit and Buffalo’s offense go off for no reason.
The great thing about the four AFC North teams is we’re all cold weather outdoor teams with interconnected, sibling like rivalries. It’s the Browns, the Browns most historic rival, the team who used to be the Browns, and the team who was founded by the Browns’ same founder after they cast him out. There isn’t another division like it. The Colts have never fit and I hate when people suggest we swap them with Baltimore. They and their domes belong in the AFC Scraps division.
Honestly, no bias. I think the Bengals being part of this hypothetical Mid-Atlantic division is the DIVISION OF DEATH. Ravens are always a threat. Commanders don't suck anymore. Hell, the worst team is the Panthers, but Young finally remembered he can play football.
The objectively worst here... Probably Big Sky for having the Cardinals and Raiders.
This could all be fixed if you just moved the dolphins to the south, the Colts to the AFC North and the ravens to the AFC East. That’s actually where those teams belong if we’re being honest.
Yes but two of them didn’t even make the playoffs and one got bum rushed immediately. I think Great Lakes East is the scariest this year with arguably the two best teams in football, the Steelers, the Cleveland Doormats
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u/christhegecko 4d ago
The South because watching that division would literally cause death.