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NFL plans to expand regular season to 17 games per team in 2021

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https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-plans-to-expand-regular-season-to-17-games-per-team-in-2021

 

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The NFL is planning to expand the regular season to 17 games in 2021 -- a historic move that would generate new revenue and could at least slightly soften an anticipated drop in the salary cap next year, sources say.

An announcement may not come for weeks, if not months, since the NFL must first negotiate at least one new media contract in order to make the move to 17 games in 2021, per the collective bargaining agreement. But as one team source apprised of discussions said: "We're all anticipating it's going to happen."

In turn, the preseason would be cut to either two or three games. There still would be one bye week per club, extending the total regular season to 18 weeks and pushing back the Super Bowl into the second week of February.

 

 

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2 preseason games, an extra regular season game, and a larger roster?

I can be on board with this.

4 minutes ago, t96 said:

2 preseason games is more than enough. In hindsight it's actually hard to believe that there were 4 preseason games every year for so long. That is 25% of a full season...

I always thought I’d was absolutely ridiculous. Don’t teams have scrimmages with other teams on their own time anyways? I agree.

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It will be interesting to see who that extra team will be.  Currently we play another NFC conference plus the same position in the place the standing of the other two conferences.   Once AFC conference and I would assume it will be on a rotationing basis of another AFC conference with the same position in the conference.  (ie. 4th place playing 4th place)

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