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NFL and NFLPA are having ‘high-level discussions’ about adding an 18th game

As we prepare for the NFL season to begin, talks of an 18-game schedule have continued between the NFL and NFLPA and are turning into “high-level discussions,” according toa report by Mark Maske of The Washington Post.

According to NFLPA executive Lloyd Howell, the union has already proposed a way to reconfigure the sport’s offseason schedule, and it did so as recently as last weekend.

Here’s Howell on adding an 18th game:

“We have talked at a very, very, very high level superficially, with a recognition about...’Yeah, this is something that we should be talking about.