Coming Soon- NFL’s 18th regular season

[88Commanders00]

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>>>>> An 18-game NFL season is coming, and no one can do anything to stop it. Well ... that's not true.

But oddly, it seems to have already been embraced as inevitable by all parties just three years since the league went to 17 games, its first expansion of the regular season in 43 years.

It's less a march to 18 games and more of a jog. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hasn't been shy about it. NFL team owners are seemingly already counting their chickens. Players appear to have accepted this will certainly happen during their careers even though they could simply not engage with the league for the next seven years and everything would stay the same.

There is nothing in the NFL's collective bargaining agreement that guarantees an 18-game season. Signed in 2020, the CBA is good through the 2030 NFL season. And adding something as massive as an 18th game would require an additional agreement between the league and the NFL Players Association.<<<<

[88Commanders00]

Obviously the players union and nfl will have to negotiate this.

The current labor deal is until the 2030 season. The current tv contract is until the 2033 season but has an opt out for 2029. I think the nfl will definitely opt out of the tv contract in 29. My guess the NFL wants the 18th game no later than 2029 but definitely earlier.

It will be interesting to see the give and take.

[SWIM]

How to we feel about an 18th game? I think it would be interesting if they forced players to only play 17 games, because then teams would have to be strategic about when to rest starters.

Almost zero percent chance of that happening since both sides are incentivized to keep roster sizes small….

[CobraCommander]

I’m ok with this as long as it leads to two bye weeks and the Super Bowl being played the day before President’s day.