The newly-approved CBA provides a three-year window, between 2021 and 2023, in which the 17-game slate can begin. Which means that there will be at least one more season (this year) of the current format of four preseason and 16 regular season matchups. Why not simply implement the new schedule right away, you might be wondering?
It's important to note that the existing CBA, which had been in place since 2011, wasn't set to expire until a year from now, in 2021. Had the players not ratified the new agreement this past weekend, the league would have played 2020 under the existing CBA and been forced to revisit the issue again next year. Such a prospect would have led to considerable uncertainty surrounding both the future and the present, with respect to current free agent players looking to sign new contracts. But that has now been rendered a moot point.
Meanwhile, three of the NFL's four television network broadcast contracts (CBS, FOX, and NBC) don't run out until 2022. ESPN's Monday Night Football deal comes due in 2021. It's safe to assume that the league had hoped to have a new long-term deal with its players long before then – which it now does – in order to put itself in a better negotiating position with the TV networks when their current pacts expire.
If the NFL, armed with its new CBA, decides to pursue and sign new TV deals sooner than the current expirations dates, we could see 17 game regular seasons become a reality as early as 2021. However, this window gives the league breathing room in which to operate, should it need longer to work out broadcast rights with its TV partners. Bottom line, whether it's sooner or later, the advent of 17-game seasons is nigh. And that will impact the preseason schedule.
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