18 games?

I don’t think the number of preseason games really affects how ready the teams are for the regular season. I think that shift would have occurred no matter how many preseason games we have, as teams think they are better prepared by the practices that they have rather than the preseason games, and they don’t want to risk injuries to their starters by playing them in a sloppy game.

The thing I have biggest beef with is unbalanced home vs away games. It’s completely ridiculous in a 17 game season that one team can have 9 homes games - 8 away games, and another team can have 8 homes games and 9 away games. That’s a large advantage. This can be solved by having every team play one neutral site game.

You can also have this same problem in a 16 or 18 game season, where a team has only one neutral site game, and now we’re back to having unbalanced home/away games.

I think my most preferred setup would by 17 games with one mandatory neutral site game per team. I’d also be fine with an 18 game season with two mandatory neutral site games. Where neutral site could be in a foreign country or it could be in an existing NFL stadium, like the Vikings-Seahawks playing in Miami or something like that, but I think division games should be banned from neutral sites.

I don’t want the season to drag on any later into winter. I’m fine with cannibalizing the weekend before the SB for the last playoff games and I’m fine starting earlier.

I think they should eliminate the practice squad by making them all on the roster and force teams to roster 4 QBs to encourage QB development. They should eliminate the distinction between active and inactive roster. I don’t see the benefit of having a handful of people that are healthy but inactive.