Mark Lamping

So we've always known that the Jaguars had the ability to play two games outside of Jacksonville during the 2026 season.

One of the reasons that that was important is because we have to have

all of our preliminary work done by the end of the 2026 season.

Because once the season ends, things go really gangbusters.

And so we can't be catching up on work that we got behind.

That's why you're seeing so many people working now.

But in the event that we got to where the season was starting and we had some projects that had to get completed, and it would have been difficult to do that while the games were being played, it was our hope

And again, it remains our hope that the 2026 schedule would be what we would call a donut schedule.

So you would have games, and then you would have a break in the middle.

And during that break, construction could be ramped back up to get inside the stadium.

So we know that at a minimum, there will be a two week window.

The NFL schedule is one of the most important things that the league does.

It drives so many things.

So it's a subject that the league and all 32 clubs take the greatest amount of interest in.

But what the league does, the league does offer the opportunity for teams to provide their suggestions on what they'd like their schedule to look like.

Or sometimes you may have some dates that otherwise your stadium would be occupied, which would make having an NFL game not impossible but difficult.

So every year, we would put down the Florida-Georgia weekend, as we would prefer not to be playing a home game.

On Sunday when Florida Georgia play on on Saturday, so.

We give all of our our our requests to the league.

Again, there's no guarantee that we will get that.