The motion for 18 games in one regular season has been in the air for some time now. A couple of weeks ago, Roger Goodell went on to The Pat McAfee Show and delved deeper into the idea and why there needs to be a reduction in the pre-season schedule. Consequently, a lot of players and fans had a mixed reaction to the proposal. Two of those athletes included the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and the 49ers’ QB Brock Purdy.
Burrow took to X a couple of weeks ago and posted, “18 games? 2 bye weeks,” but didn’t elaborate much concerning the same. However, after some time, he expanded on how he wanted things to take shape if the NFL made it an 18-game schedule. Brock Purdy’s assessment appeared along the same lines; however, the professional seemed undecided and unimpressed on how things would eventually unfold.
Brock Purdy doesn’t feel ‘100%’ about an 18-game season
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Purdy recently did a presser where a reporter wanted to know the 49ers QBs thoughts on 18-game seasons. For Purdy, playing 18 games would be painstaking, unless there’s some sort of a bye week involved. Though he didn’t really have a solution to the puzzle, he tried to justify his thought process.
“I mean, if that is the case, I think two byes would be nice. That kind of thing It’s a long season, man. You go through so much physically and mentally, everything. But if we’re go