Report: Talks about 18-game NFL season expected to ‘intensify’ at spring meetings

The 17-game season has been in place since 2021.

Roger Goodell on ‘Pat McAfee Show’: 18-game schedule ‘not an unreasonable thing’

"If we got to 18 … that's not an unreasonable thing."

Mike Florio: ‘Sooner than later we’re gonna have NFL football seven days a week’

"It’s gonna be hopefully in my lifetime a seven-day-a-week, primetime event. There’s too much money to be made."

NFL says the Patriots and Buccaneers having just two simultaneous games is “coincidental”

The league is almost certainly telling the truth here, too.