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All else aside, the increase to 55 points for the race winner is an unmitigated improvement. Could have gone even higher.

Exactly.

NBC claimed they were hands off and letting NASCAR decide. The latest excuses going around have to do with their being driver and sponsor contracts that contain clauses relative to Playoffs / Chase performance. As if we're supposed to believe for a single second that Jim France is constrained...

Yes, the data shows that's been working like a charm.

Remember when the new marketing was going to be all about how bold and strong NASCAR is about knowing who they are? Instead we get a fence sitting committee who think they've found just the right middle ground between two polar opposites.

I like how they're trumpeting "No eliminations" when the main feature of a Chase cutoff is to "eliminate" two thirds of the field from mattering "Hey everyone, we got rid of most of the unpopular changes you hated. We've struck the right balance!" This is the equivalent of Coca Cola reacting...

Tossed off joke, not to be taken seriously. I just don't think I can take another decade of that clown explaining why the latest set of tweaks is the "right balance".

The wrong Steve died.

No matter how bad playoffs are for Cup racing, they are infinitely worse for those series.

But Jeff Burton has been going hoarse for over a decade telling us exactly that about the old system. So confusing.

Yeah. Directionally it's a big improvement on everything done since 2014. Addition by subtraction: a good portion of the nonsense is gone. Unfortunately a fair amount remains. It is difficult to give NASCAR leadership that much credit for partially getting out of their own way. They were facing...

Four out of five thrilling finishes still ain't bad.

The Chargers' defense did an admirable job for most of the game keeping them in it. The offense is so outmatched it's hard to watch.

Analytics says...

Harbaugh is possibly the most conservative coach in the league with those calls and still got over eager. The Patriots escape with no bad consequences.

If the Eagles kept the timeout, it wouldn't have been over.

Nah. The receiver was initiating the contact more than the defender.

Very bad interception by Purdy, seems to have shifted the momentum back. The personal foul call was ridiculous.

At their respective best, I think that game featured two of the three best teams in the AFC. It's a bit of a shame they had to meet so early.