You know we’re approaching the next round of negotiations for the Collective Bargaining Agreement when you start hearing about the possibility of an 18-game regular-season schedule again. It’s something that is probably never going to happen, but the league continues to push it—probably knowing it will never happen—as a tactic to make it seem as though they are sacrificing to gain something else.
Commissioner Roger Goodell recently insinuated that there are too many preseason games, and you know what that means. “I feel what we should be doing is always to the highest quality, and I’m not sure preseason games meet that level right now”, he said.