Goodell outlines the proposal for a longer season
In a meeting with the Associated Press, commissioner Roger Goodell spelled out the format of an expanded NFL season.
If the league adopts an 18-game regular season, only two preseason games would be played (currently there are four). They would occur the final two weeks in August, followed by a week off during the week of Labor Day Weekend. In this format, the Super Bowl could be pushed back all the way to President's weekend in mid-Fenruary.
Said Goodell to the AP on Friday: "The idea has merit, I think. You are taking the quality and improving it, taking two meaningless games and making them meaningful within the 20-game framework.
"I think there are a lot of positives and opportunities to it, but there are some cautionary things," he continued, citing overexposure, safety and health issues for the players in addition to agreements with television and other media partners.
-Chris Mascaro
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Matthew Stafford and the Lions have agree to a 6 year deal with Stafford getting $41.7 million guaranteed to be the 1st overall pick in tomorrow's NFL Draft. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! This is why the NFL need to put in some type of cap on rookie salaries. Stafford hasn't play a slap in the NFL yet and already Stafford is getting $41.7 million guaranteed. Let's hope Roger Goodell forces the NFLPA to put in a rookie salary cap because the salaries for rookies coming into the NFl are getting out of hand. I also think the NFL should think about taking apage from the NBA and do a draft lottery because this way the team with the worse record is not guaranteed the 1st overall pick and thus don't have the burden to pay the type of money the Lions are paying to Stafford.