17-game season a done deal?

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March 19, 2021 at 2:33 am #128496

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Source: 17-game season a done deal for 2021

* https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/03/18/source-17-game-season-a-done-deal-for-2021/

With new TV deals in place, the NFL will have a new-look regular season.

For the first time since 1978, the NFL will expand the total number of games that count from 16 to 17. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the league will adopt 17 games for 2021.

Earlier today, Commissioner Roger Goodell said that a vote on a 17-game season is on the agenda for the league meetings set for later this month. The only question left to conclusively resolve is whether the league will have three or two preseason games.

The league most likely will stick with three preseason games, in order to retain the total 20-game season. Before the NFL played 16 regular-season games and four preseason games, the NFL had 14 regular-season games and six preseason games.

Also, a 17-and-3 model would allow the NFL to eventually expand to 18, with the ability to trade a reduction to two preseason games when the next season expansion inevitably occurs.

March 19, 2021 at 3:57 pm #128516

zn
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Dan Graziano@DanGrazianoESPN
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, on a conference call to discuss new broadcast rights deals, says league will make decision on expansion to 17-game regular season at the owners’ meeting later this month.

March 28, 2021 at 1:38 pm #128707

zn
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With the 17-game schedule all but official, the Rams will now face the Ravens next season https://t.co/Hz1LHTBdGu

— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) March 28, 2021

March 28, 2021 at 3:11 pm #128708

nittany ram
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To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, a 17 game schedule is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas.

March 28, 2021 at 5:04 pm #128710

Zooey
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I think they should go back to the 14 game schedule, myself.

March 28, 2021 at 5:31 pm #128711

wv
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The Rams draw the Ravens, who pounded the living-shit
out of them last time, i believe.

Who do the other division teams draw?

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March 29, 2021 at 1:11 am #128713

JackPMiller
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If there is a 17 game schedule, there better be an extra bye week as well.

March 29, 2021 at 5:56 pm #128726

zn
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Proposal for 17-game regular season includes three preseason games

* https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/03/29/proposal-for-17-game-regular-season-includes-three-preseason-games/

NFL owners will vote on approving a 17-game regular season schedule for the 2021 season at this week’s league meetings and there’s little suspense over which way that vote will go.

Ever since the league secured the right to expand the regular season, it has been a matter of when rather than if the league would choose to add another week of games to the slate. The league’s new TV deals were negotiated to include a Week 18 doubleheader on ESPN, which joins Steelers president Art Rooney II’s comments from last week as evidence of where the league is going.

The size of the preseason was less certain. A reduction from four games was coming because the Collective Bargaining Agreement only allows for 20 games between the regular season and playoffs. There was question if the league would go to two or three preseason games, but it has now been answered.

Rooney said last week that they’d be playing three games and Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the resolution that owners will vote on includes a provision for three preseason contests.

Albert Breer of SI.com reports those games will be scheduled so that there are no games in the week before final cuts and Labor Day, which is a departure from past years when teams have wrapped up the exhibition season a couple of days before making cuts.
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