NFL notebook: Cowboys owner Jones proposes 18-game schedule

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones offered a solution to shorten the NFL preseason, limit exposure to concussions and bring in a lot more money: an 18-game regular-season schedule. "I think candidly it's probably physically better for players than it is to have the longer preseason, the longer practicing," Jones said on 105.3 FM in Dallas on Tuesday. "Our studies show that we actually have a ramped-up injury situation with players during preseason as opposed to the injury factor in the regular season." A day earlier, in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, Jones added: "It would provide more than $1 billion to the players.