Now that the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks will host an 11-5 New Orleans Saints team, calls have already begun to re-seed the playoff format.

As embarrassing as it may be for the defending Super Bowl champions to have to schlep across the country and face a team many had pegged for the cellar of the NFL's worst division, it's equally unrealistic to expect NFL owners to act quickly on this subject.

Or at all.

Realistically, can anyone envision a scenario where Robert Kraft, the Rooney family, the Green Bay Packers, Inc--or Jerry Jones, John Mara/Steve Tisch and Woody Johnson, who recently opened billion dollar stadiums--would agree to a system that would potentially take a home playoff gate away from them so that a team from another division, who played a different schedule, gets to host a playoff game?

As John Boehner might say, "Hell no they won't".

It's admirable to say that nobody wants to invalidate divisional play, but that's what re-seeding the playoffs would do.

Teams know now that if they win their division, i.e. beat the teams they play 6/16ths of their schedule against, and do better against eight common opponents, they get to host a playoff game. If you don't win your division, you'll have to go on the road in January.

The rules are never changed in October.

As long as teams are playing completely different schedules, attempts to re-seed the playoffs are just a knee-jerk reaction to an anomaly. If the league, with Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay beating the drum most loudly, wants to open up this can of worms, what's next?

Well, the 12-4 Baltimore Ravens do have to go into Arrowhead Stadium next Sunday to face the 10-6 Kansas City Chiefs, who won two AFC West games all season, got blown out by the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, and got to 10 wins thanks in large part to them sweeping their four games against...the NFC West.