The NFL owners and NFL Players Association agreed last Friday to extend the deadline in the current Collective Bargaining Agreement one more week meaning our new deadline is this upcoming Friday, March 11th. It sounds like there’s been some progress -- though we can’t identify specifically what kind -- if the two sides agreed to extend the deadline one more week.
NFL Lockout News: CBA Negotiations Resume With New Deadline
On Monday morning, the two sides will resume negotiations after spending the week strategizing on their own. The NFLPA, lead by executive director DeMaurice Smith, will likely bring active players along with them as they have throughout this process. It’ll be interesting to see if Commissioner Roger Goodell has any owners at the negotiating table, something which many think needs to happen.
Things can change but reports also indicate that it’s very unlikely there’s another extension. On Friday, it will be decertification from the NFLPA and/or a lockout from the NFL. If a deal isn’t struck, those are your two likely scenarios that will unfold. Once one or both of those moves happen, we’re in for a long work stoppage because there’s no real motivation by the NFL to get a deal done until we get closer to the season.
The best news we can hear this week is silence. Indeed, both sides seem to operate better when they’re not flapping their gums in public. Despite a few anonymous sources, both sides have ben good about keeping quiet and allowing the process to play out.
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