{"id":844692,"date":"2026-03-31T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/844692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:03:25","slug":"ravens-say-its-too-early-for-clarity-on-nnamdi-madubuike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/844692\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Say It\u2019s \u2018Too Early\u2019 for Clarity on Nnamdi Madubuike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Brown Comments on Potential 18-Game Schedule<\/p>\n

There has been talk that the league is headed toward an 18-game regular schedule, and that talk continued to heat up in Arizona.<\/p>\n

While others across the league gave their opinions, Brown said the Ravens will let the league and the NFL Players Association sort it out.<\/p>\n

“We’d leave that to the league and the union to negotiate,” Brown said. “We’re all watching it closely. That’s always going to have to be a negotiation and compromise that works for both sides. We have a ton of respect for where we think the players’ interests are. I think, collectively, both sides see an opportunity, but we’ve got to work through what that may mean and how we make it work.”<\/p>\n

Other team representatives discussed the idea<\/a>, including Patriots Owner Robert Kraft, who advocated for an 18-game season that includes one less preseason game and the addition of a second bye week.<\/p>\n

The NFL last expanded its regular-season schedule for the first time in 43 years in 2021, when a 17th game was added.<\/p>\n

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about an 18-game season before February’s Super Bowl and didn’t indicate a change was imminent.<\/p>\n

“We have not had any formal discussions about it, and frankly, very little, if any informal conversations,” Goodell said. “\u2026 It is not a given that we’ll do that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brown Comments on Potential 18-Game Schedule There has been talk that the league is headed toward an 18-game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[783,7,781,786,20472,11465,20847,6360,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-844692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-clifton-brown","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-general","11":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","12":"tag-inline-news","13":"tag-justin-madubuike","14":"tag-justin-robertson","15":"tag-news-notes","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116323457717838796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844692","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=844692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}