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

League executive Troy Vincent said last month that changes were needed to overtime rules to decrease the advantage of winning the coin toss. Receiving the ball first has become more of an advantage than before 2011, when overtime was sudden death. Receiving teams won 56.8% of overtime games from 2017-24, up from 55.4% from 2001-11.

Every offseason each NFL team is permitted the opportunity to submit rule changes for the league to consider and potentially introduce the following season. And, every offseason, some teams take advantage of that opportunity.