The NFL will consider ending or at least limiting Thursday Night Football.

The current contract with CBS and NBC runs through 2017, which means that changes to the package could be made by 2018 — barring a renegotiation.

The NFL is beginning to realize they have possibly saturated the marketplace with stand-alone evening games.

The money generated from NFL Network due to the annual slate of exclusive games isn’t large enough to make it an impediment to broader efforts to strike the right balance between giving national audiences enough, but not too much NFL.