Currently the NFL season is only 16 games, but that might not be permanent. There’s been talks of expanding the season for awhile now and those talks seem to have reached NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell based on Goodell’s statements last week. “I’m not sure, talking with coaches, that four preseason games is necessary anymore to get ready for a season to evaluate players, develop players,” Goodell said in Batavia at Jim Kelly’s charity golf tournament.
“There are other ways of doing that, and we’ve had a lot of discussions about that,” Goodell said. Apparently, ‘other ways’ includes adding two more regular season games while cutting a couple of the preseason games.