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Will NFL players agree to an 18-game season? Hurdles abound

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TWELVE MINUTES AFTER booing Roger Goodell as he strode on the set of "The Pat McAfee Show" in front of a live audience in the hours leading up to the second round of the 2024 NFL draft in Detroit, fans abruptly changed their tune.

The jeers turned to hoots and hollers as the NFL commissioner told McAfee he wasn't a fan of preseason games, and they increased a few seconds later when Goodell said he'd be in favor of eliminating one of the three current preseason games to expand the regular-season schedule from 17 games to 18.