Packers' Mark Murphy: Length of preseason 'an issue'

Packers president Mark Murphy isn't the first high-ranking league figure to cite the NFL preseason for its various faults, but he is the latest.

Murphy on Monday revealed that discussions have taken place about shortening the preseason from its current four-game slate, although he doesn't expect that to happen anytime soon.

"I think with all the concern about player health and safety, it would be difficult to go from 16 regular-season games to 18," Murphy said, per ESPN.com's Rob Demovsky. "One of the things that has kind of been looked at is, do we reduce the number of games overall (to) three preseason games and 16 regular-season games? But obviously there's a loss of revenue that comes…