By all accounts, it appears the NFL will be going to a 17-game regular season in 2021.
In his Football Morning in America column Monday, Peter King got some more information on what it will look like.
There will be no second bye, meaning 17 games in 18 weeks and the Super Bowl likely getting pushed back from Feb. 6 to Feb. 13. The AFC teams will get the extra home game this year with it rotating every year.
As for the games, here's how the scheduling will go: AFC versus NFC, cross-conference matchup from two years ago, 2021 matchup based on 2020 standings.
This has the Patriots hosting the Cowboys, one of the more intriguing extra games around the league. The most intriguing has the Chiefs hosting the Packers, Aaron Rodgers' first game against Patrick Mahomes.
New England has won the last six meetings with Dallas.
