Trade the NFL Preseason For the 18 Game Regular Season

What’s the delay in trading meaningless games for meaningful ones?

National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell has got one thing right.

The NFL should get rid of most if not all of the preseason games it plays and have an 18-game regular season schedule.

Critics speak of the fear of injury but they miss the point. Wouldn’t four games exchanged for two actually prevent injuries?

Sure, the starters play sparingly in the preseason. But that’s the thing. If Julio Jones of the Atlanta Falcons can skip the preseason games and not miss a step for the rest of the season, then why are these games needed instead of scrimmages?

Which every high school and college football team uses to determine starters.

And, at least in comparison to the NFL’s preseason, when did you last hear of a star college player being lost for the season because of an injury suffered in August practice?

Images like this are why the NFL’s preseason is as obsolete as salt tablets.

Three years ago the Miami Dolphins were coming off a playoff season. Then Ryan Tannehill was lost for the 2017 season due to injury and the Dolphins have suffered through two losing seasons and all preseason predictions indicate a third is eminent.