{"id":2456,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2456","headline":"Jerry Jones says 18-game NFL season may not be far off","dek":"The Cowboys owner says expansion from 17 to 18 games still needs to be negotiated with the players union.","body":"Jerry Jones thinks the NFL's long-rumored jump to an 18-game regular season could be closer than people realize. Speaking Friday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, the Cowboys owner said he doesn't believe the league is far away from making the change.\n\nHe admitted the timeline is fuzzy. Not next month, he said, but maybe next year, or the year after. Either way, Jones was clear that nothing happens without a deal with the players, saying the move has to be negotiated with the union first.\n\nJones argued the switch benefits everyone involved. He said it would let teams cut back on preseason games while still giving young players more real development time early in the season, something coaches have long wanted without sacrificing roster evaluation time.\n\nThe league has made no secret of wanting to move from seventeen to eighteen games, treating it as a matter of when rather than if. The players association has not shown the same enthusiasm, and any change will require working through that resistance before an extra regular-season game becomes official.","published_at":"2026-11-14T19:33:02.214278+00:00","source_count":5,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jerry Jones: "I don't think we're far away" from 18 regular-season games","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jerry-jones-dont-think-were-150713607.html"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Jerry Jones: \"I don't think we're far away\" from 18 regular-season games","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/jerry-jones-i-dont-think-were-far-away-from-18-regular-season-games"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Jerry Jones reveals when he thinks NFL expands to 18-game season, but process to get there is complicated","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jerry-jones-on-nfl-expansion-18-game-regular-season/"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: 'I don't think we're far away' from 18-game NFL schedule","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7779662/2026/11/13/jerry-jones-cowboys-nfl-18-game-schedule/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"‘All They Care About Is Money,’ ‘There Needs To Be 2 Bye Weeks’ — NFL Fans React as Jerry Jones Argues Proposed 18-Game Season Is in ‘Players’ Best Interest’","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/care-money-needs-2-bye-055451448.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Jerry Jones says an 18-game NFL season is inevitable: ‘Don’t think we’re far away’","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/sports/jerry-jones-says-an-18-game-nfl-season-is-inevitable/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Jerry Jones says an 18-game NFL season is inevitable: ‘Don’t think we’re far away’","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jerry-jones-says-18-game-160801626.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a4f2a5e/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdliveextra-a.akamaihd.net%2FHD%2Fimage_sports%2FNBCU_Sports_Group_-_nbcsports%2F458%2F227%2Fniners_cowboys_prev_raw_261112.jpg","credit":"Pro Football Talk","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}