Will we have 18-game season in 2027? + Is the NFL taking too many games away from Sunday afternoon? (5/26 Hour 2)
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tuesday edition of PFT Live. |
| 0:07.0 | Tuesday feels like a Monday. |
| 0:09.4 | Tomorrow's going to feel like a I don't know what day. |
| 0:12.5 | Thursday feels like Friday for Chris because it always is. |
| 0:15.9 | Friday will be Friday. |
| 0:17.1 | It's one of those short weeks. |
| 0:18.2 | The unofficial start of the summer. |
| 0:20.8 | And right after the unofficial end of the summer, and right after the |
| 0:21.8 | unofficial end of the summer, we'll be into football season. Now, there has been a lingering |
| 0:29.2 | possibility that this could be the last season with only 17 games, because by 2027, in theory, there could be an 18th game. |
| 0:40.5 | And the reason we still do not have a date set in stone for Super Bowl 62 to be played in Atlanta |
| 0:46.6 | is because they're holding out hope. |
| 0:49.6 | They're keeping the door open. |
| 0:51.0 | They're leaving the light on for the possibility of an 18-game season |
| 0:55.1 | come 2027. I'm told it's highly unlikely at this point that they're going to get there. |
| 1:04.2 | That there's too much to be done. The union is still emerging from the chaos of the past year. |
| 1:11.8 | You don't get the sense they want to move quickly and rush into it. |
| 1:14.7 | They've got to sell the rank and file on 18 games. |
| 1:17.9 | It's too soon. |
| 1:19.1 | It's too much. |
| 1:20.3 | It's too ambitious. |
| 1:21.9 | But, but until they pick a date for Super Bowl 62, |
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