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I had a story yesterday.

It was in the Washington Post, and the NFL Players Association got together with writers,

reporters, editors from the Washington Post talking about the possibility of an 18-game schedule.

And I thought, okay, this is interesting that it comes out. And a lot of times a story comes out

so both sides can kind of gather information here. How is the reaction going to be? What's the

reaction going to be? What are the players going to be? What are the players going to say?

Owners, GMs, coaches, everybody will have an opinion because now you can bring that up.

You're going to have columns that are written on this.

How can you talk about player safety and then you want to add an 18 game schedule?

I agree.

Don't tell me about player safety if you want to add another

game here. But it's going to happen eventually. The question is, how do you fast track this?

How do you expedite this? Go back to the college football playoffs. Remember that mess?

When I had the audacity to say, look, they're going to move this up a couple of years.

Oh, they got a contract.

Yeah, they have a lottery ticket as well.

They broke the contract.

As I reported, they were going to break the contract because they realized how much money would be made if you had a 12-team playoff.

All of a sudden, you start to see numbers.

Then all of a sudden you go, well, how do we have an addendum to that contract?

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