Dusting off my proposal from a previous thread:
You could play a 6-game regular season for teams to jell and set up playoff seeding. Three in-division games (1 vs. each team in your division) and three in-conference games (1 game vs. a team from each other division in the conference). Tiebreakers {including coin flips} used as needed to crown division winners and seeding 1-16. Every team is then seeded into the single-elimination playoff tournament for the team's conference {no byes}. Four weeks of playoff games, and then the Super Bowl with the two conference tournament champions. If necessary, Pro Bowl is eliminated and the Super Bowl held week after Conference Championships. A bit of theft from NCAA March Madness with 16 games the first weekend of the playoffs, with a huge spike in Red Zone subscriptions.