Roger Goodell has floated the idea of expanding the playoffs by a team or two, and we know what it means when Goodell floats something: He’s either strongly in favor of it or he’s taking public temperature of the idea.

Let’s hope it’s the latter. This concept is severely undercooked.

Did you watch the games this past weekend? The action was subpar. Both No. 6 seeds stunk up the joint for the most part. The Bengals only hung in there on the scoreboard because the Texans kicked field goal after field goal. Vikings QB Joe Webb — backup or not — looked like someone who was just plucked off the street when throwing.

It follows the pattern of recent years. The road teams were 0-4 last season, with three of the losses by at least 17 points. In 2010, we had madness — 3-of-4 road teams winning and the 7-9 home Seahawks beating the 11-5 road Saints — but the road teams that won either had equal or better records in the regular season than their hosts.

Do you really want more teams in the playoffs? For what — bragging rights?

No. We all know. It’s TV. Playoff games mean big ratings, and big ratings mean TV dollars rolling into 345 Park Avenue. And playoff games are better attended than regular-season games, so you’d have more sellouts to report to the media when we start questioning flagging attendance figures.

It’s a bad idea. Watering down the product goes against what Goodell says he wants. He has been quite proactive about investigating ways to change and better the game, but too often in this league changes are made for change’s sake, almost out of boredom. Why mess with a good thing?

If they do, it will make the NFL a bad cousin of the outdated and often-mocked bowl system. Plus, it will be another way of the league trying to muscle the NFLPA into more games, which they do not want. Not as damaging as an 18-game regular season, which fell on deaf ears and rightfully was tabled for the foreseeable future, but another annoyance in an already delicate and unsteady relationship.