One interesting piece of news getting chatter this week is a vocal push back by the NFLPA regarding adding an 18th game to the NFL season.<\/p>\n
The NFL wants 18 games. The NFL also wants more international games. Preseason games are boring.<\/p>\n
Dropping one preseason game for an extra regular-season game seems like a no-brainer at first glance.<\/p>\n
But the players are pushing back, and with good reason in my mind. As a fan, I\u2019d love to see more actual meaningful games instead of watching a bunch of players who aren\u2019t going to play in the regular season. But I\u2019m also a fan of the players, and these games aren\u2019t played without a cost.<\/p>\n
Players put their health on the line every week. You probably wouldn\u2019t know it, but most players don\u2019t make it through a season without an injury of some sort.<\/p>\n
That extra game means more wear and tear for the players that they don\u2019t have to go through in the current arrangement. Sure, our starters will play a quarter or two each preseason game, but that\u2019s not the same workload as a full game.<\/p>\n
I do think that the change will happen at some point. I think this is largely saber-rattling by the NFLPA to set the table for getting more for the players since so much more is being asked of them.<\/p>\n
Now it is only a question of how soon the format will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One interesting piece of news getting chatter this week is a vocal push back by the NFLPA regarding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,1151,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-728617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denver-broncos-news","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116012069976237637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}