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Originally Posted by notorious
I know how they used to do the 16 game schedule. It was perfect.
How do they determine the 17th game? Do you play the NFC equivalent? The Chiefs are the 1 seed, so they will play the 1 seed from the NFC?
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Not exactly. The Chiefs will play a team - with the same ranking - from the NFC division that they faced off against 2 years prior. So, they played the NFC West a couple years ago and that's why it was 49ers this year. They played the NFC North last season and thus next year it'll be the Lions or Vikings (whoever finishes 1st). The year after that it will be the winner of the NFC South which they faced this year.
It's basically to keep some rotation where teams aren't just meeting each other every 4 years.