There have been many rumblings that the NFL is planning on expanding the NFL postseason and allowing 14 teams to receive playoff berths for the 2014 season as oppose to 12, and while commissioner Roger Goodell hasn't shut the door on the possibility for expansion in 2014 Giants president John Mara doesn't think it's likely for the upcoming season.
Mara said in an interview with Newsday that the conversations about NFL playoff expansion for the 2014 season have been tabled.
"I don't think it's going to happen this year," Mara told the publication on Tuesday. "I think it's kind of late. We have a May [20 owners] meeting [in Atlanta], but I sense that we'll wait a year before we do that. It hasn't been voted on yet."
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Mara believes that the expansion, which would mean that nearly 44 percent of teams in the league make the postseason, is definitely going to happen down the road just not in 2014.
"[The league] would notify us in advance, but I'm thinking it's probably not going to happen for another year or so," Mara told the paper.
Goodell brought up the prospect of expanding the field from 12 teams to 14 -- seven in each conference -- at the NFL's owners meetings in March and said that the upcoming season wasn't the goal but he "wouldn't rule it out."
According to ESPN, the competition committee supported the idea of expanding the postseason field.
"I think there's a tremendous amount of interest in this, possibly even to the point of support, but we want to make sure we do it right," Goodell said in March via ESPN. "We've been very incremental when trying to do this. But we believed it could make our races toward the end of the season even more exciting, [with] more teams vying for playoff positions, which is great for our fans."
While 2014 may not include expansion in the postseason, the NFL will likely soon be sending 43.7 percent of its teams to the postseason in 2015 and beyond.
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