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.