by Dave Bernreuther
NFL owners dusted off an old talking point in advance of the next CBA negotiations, meaning we should all prepare for two more years of discussion about the possibility of an 18-game season.
This latest proposal, which is not new, but is seeing official backing for the first time, is to stage an 18-game season with a limit of 16 total games for any player.
There are a number of ways to look at this hare-brained, but still well-reasoned, idea. The first is that it's just the owners overreaching so that they can negotiate something away in the talks without giving up something they really want.