The NFL may be devaluing the preseason in comparison to the regular season, shrinking the former by one game in favor of growing the latter by one, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t try to get everything they can out of every product they can conceivably broadcast.
It was announced recently that the NFL will be nationally televising 23 preseason games this August, the most in the league’s history. That’s 23 out of 39 total preseason games, a remarkable percentage, especially when you factor in the loss of 16 games with the removal of one preseason week.