interview with Yahoo Sports<\/a> whether wild card teams with better records should have home-field advantage in the playoffs, and he answered, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWith the season that we had last year, to go and play away, it definitely was a little different,\u201d Jefferson said. \u201cIt definitely needs to go into consideration and something that we need to figure out because having 14 wins . . . normally doesn\u2019t go to play away in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jefferson acknowledged that his team had the chance to take care of business when the Vikings faced the Lions with the No. 1 seed on the line in the final game of the regular season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely had the opportunity to play home field with the last game in Detroit, but even losing that we still felt like we should\u2019ve had home-field advantage,\u201d Jefferson said. \u201cBut even not having home-field advantage is never an excuse. It\u2019s something we had to deal with and we wish we would\u2019ve had home field but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lions offered a proposal this offseason that would have changed playoff seeding, but it didn\u2019t have enough support to pass. Which means a division winner with a losing record can still host a playoff game, and a wild card team with the second-best record in the conference can still have to play on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings finished the regular season tied for the second-best record in the NFC last year, but because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-21473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}