Volin is claiming the 17th game will likely be interconference and flip home/away every year:
Crazy the owners insist on their 10 home dates vs. 16 neutral-site games, but money!
So I guess a rotating separate NFC division, same-place finish? By that I mean we're due to play the NFC West this season, but they'd choose NFC North/South/East's 1st place team to play us, that NFC division's 2nd place team to play BUF, etc. (not that it's happening in 2020, just an example). It's how they do the remaining 2 games on the current schedule that are not intradivision, AFC division you play all of, and NFC division you play all of.