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Roger Goodell: NFL continuing to discuss 18-game season, looking at health and safety

The NFL’s march toward an 18-game season is continuing, even if it was not front and center at this week’s league meeting.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said shifting the schedule to 18 regular-season games and two preseason games was “not a focus” of the league meeting. But Goodell added that the league meeting did focus a lot on health and safety, and that health and safety is a key to making an 18-game season work.

“We’ll continue to analyze it, we’ll continue to discuss it, obviously, with the players,” Goodell said. “We’ll all do our work on that.