These NFL rule changes are coming next season & be prepared for an 18 game schedule in the near future
The Kevin Sheehan Show
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So the NFL approved some new rules changes. I'm going to get to those momentarily. But the league also announced in Phoenix yesterday. I'm pretty sure we knew this because I think John Oran from Puck News told us this a few months back that the NFL was leaning in the direction of eliminating the double-header Monday night games. |
| 0:21.4 | So they did that. |
| 0:22.8 | No more than one game on Monday night football in the upcoming NFL season, |
| 0:29.2 | 2026. |
| 0:30.7 | They did not see a huge bump in ratings from it. |
| 0:34.7 | The staggered times, you know, I actually liked the two games on Monday night because at least your chances |
| 0:41.0 | of getting at least one competitive game were doubled. |
| 0:44.8 | And there are Monday nights in which you get a non-competitive game, and there's no other |
| 0:50.2 | option out there. |
| 0:52.2 | I didn't mind them, but they are doing away with Monday night double |
| 0:56.6 | header games. I mean, they weren't even true double headers because they would just stagger |
| 1:01.1 | the start time, a seven, you know, a seven o'clock and an eight, 20 or whatever. I know that some of the |
| 1:07.0 | West Coast games, sometimes you had, you know, a 715 and a 1015 or something like that. |
| 1:12.2 | But no more of those. |
| 1:14.9 | Now, why do you think they're doing that? |
| 1:18.2 | They're doing that because they want to take those games back, five of them from last year, |
| 1:23.4 | six of them, something like that. |
| 1:25.4 | And they're going to package those games together and sell them to a streaming service. |
| 1:30.3 | And we're going to get a Thanksgiving Eve game. |
| 1:34.0 | You know, Wednesday night Thanksgiving Eve game. |
| 1:36.1 | We're going to get another triple header Christmas Day spectacular. |
| 1:41.2 | Because that's been sold on a year to year basis |
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