In a Dallas hotel, the NFL met with the NFLPA for two hours this afternoon, giving us all hope that there will be football in 2011.
A joint statement was released which stated they, "plan to increase the number, length and intensity" of bargaining sessions so they can perhaps reach an agreement before the CBA expires March 4.They have also scheduled two sessions to be held next week at an undisclosed location.
Saturday's session was considered a, "continuing effort to narrow the differences and reach a fair agreement that will benefit the players, teams and fans." There has been no indication that any progress (if any) was made.
This sounds like serious hope amid all of the negative news we've recently been hearing. Perhaps the NFLPA threats of holding out draft players from participating in workouts shook up the league a bit.
Either way, I for one am elated to at least hear about the two sides talking and would love to see all of this settled before March 4th, allowing trades to become a major part of the draft.
Also, so many other lives would be affected by a lockout (food vendors, manufacturers of supplies and memorabilia, assistant coaches), an agreement would be great to have because of that as well.
You can read the full details here.
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0 recs | 9 comments
This is good news
it is showing how both sides want a deal. Hopefully they give and take, so a deal can get done.
Brandon Birkhead - February 5, 2011
maybe...just maybe
the 18 games thing is going to kind of suck, unless they can ditch it for a more generous concession to the owners in terms of the percentages. Either way…
Ryan Van Bibber - February 5, 2011
Yea, i'm not a fan of 18 games
16 seems perfect.. I’d rather seem them ditch he pro-bowl and give us one more weekend of playoffs!
VTramsFan - February 6, 2011
I support 2 pre-season games but not 18 regular season games
it would just make the year too long, and more risk to injury
Brandon Birkhead - February 6, 2011
this is really good news
I was watching the NFL network & the way they where talking seems like they are close to a deal, it’s going to be fun to see what the Rams do FA wise. can’t wait for the deal to get done. fingers crossed.
Ct St.louis Rams - February 6, 2011 via mobile
I guess my question is what the hell have they been doing before this?
a two hour bargaining session? wooo watch out. Do we need to get them a bunch of juice boxes and a nap time so they can go for a full day?
RamsFan7 - February 6, 2011
hey it's progress
they weren’t talking for the last few weeks
Brandon Birkhead - February 6, 2011
This is big!
Probably big for a lot of teams, but especially the Rams. With McDaniels coming in and making a transition to his offense, any delay will hurt us big time.
hockeyno93 - February 6, 2011
Let's keep our fingers crossed,
and not get too excited over the stuff the networks feed us. It sure seems like it shouldn’t be that hard to reach an agreement, but a lot of big egos are involved on both sides so anything could happen. It would be great to get it settled by March 4.
andyhawk - February 6, 2011
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