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3 Reasons the NFL should not expand to 18-game schedule

By Colton Pickard

ARLINGTON, TEXAS - JANUARY 05: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Executive Vice President Charlotte Jones Anderson visit with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell before the game between the Seattle Seahawks and Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card Round at AT&T Stadium on January 05, 2019 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TEXAS - JANUARY 05: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Executive Vice President Charlotte Jones Anderson visit with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell before the game between the Seattle Seahawks and Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card Round at AT&T Stadium on January 05, 2019 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /
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1. The schedule is already perfect

Right now with the 16-game schedule, every game matters. Rarely will a team win 50 percent of their games in a regular season and make the playoffs. With the extra games, every loss won’t be as important as they currently all.

We all love football and want more of it. But what do you prefer: wanting more football at the end of the season or being tired of the long season and ready for lower quality football to end? The NFL regular season is perfect as it already is in this regard.

The regular season is perfect with the 16-game schedule and one bye week. It ends at New Year’s, and the playoffs start right after the turn of the calendar year. We are accustomed to the Super Bowl being played on the first week of February.

That will all change if you add two weeks to the schedule. If the extra two weeks are added, then the NFL season could almost start to bleed into March Madness. A football season lasting from August to late February (or even early March) would be grueling for the players.

Like I said before, the schedule is perfect already, and it doesn’t need to be messed with. Football is a physical sport and some players can’t afford to add a couple more weeks to an already tough season.

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Even though they won’t be playing those two weeks, they will still be working out, practicing and everything else entailed with being a part of the team. In the end, that would be detrimental to all involved.

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