With a potential NFL lockout just weeks away, the league and the National Football League Players Association have scheduled a solid week’s worth of negotiation meetings, according to a tweet by Pro Football Talk. This is a step up from what we’d last heard as far as the timing of meetings (that the two camps would meet on the day of the current collective bargaining agreement’s expiration).
NFL Lockout Looms As NFL, NFLPA Schedule Seven Days Of Negotiations
PFT also reports these meetings are expected to begin Feb. 18, rather than extend that single day of last-minute meetings into a seven-day countdown. And on the seventh day, He created a new collective bargaining agreement.
Either way, the more time the league and the union spend in the same room, the greater the odds of them finding common ground, right? At worst, this is a PR effort set up in an attempt to curb some of the ill will that a lockout would generate towards … well, everybody involved.
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