The Lions have proposed a significant change to NFL playoff seeding that would largely use regular-season records as the guiding principle.

The proposal by the Lions would allow a wild-card team with a superior record to be seeded ahead of a division winner.

It's hard to think of a more exciting time in sports than the NFL playoffs where the best football teams in each division duke it out for a chance at Super Bowl glory. However, there has been some criticism of the format over the years,