Owner Meetings Begin Tomorrow & Owners Ordered to Stay Overnight

[Hostile]

NFL owners to begin meetings tomorrow in Chicago

6/20/2011 2:15:55 PM

NFL owners will meet in Chicago Tuesday, and perhaps into Wednesday, to discuss the status of negotiations with the players for a new collective bargaining agreement. NFL teams were advised last week to be prepared an extra day.

NFL owners and players have met over the the past three weeks and reportedly there is enough optimism to believe that progress is being made toward a new CBA.

There were reports that there are a few owners who may not be satisfied with the deal that might be presented at the owners meetings. Of course, it would only take nine owners to strike down any proposal that might be presented.

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My prediction...we get a deal done out of this and soon. Just my gut feeling.

 

[Stash]

My prediction...we get a deal done out of this and soon. Just my gut feeling.

Second!

 

[SkinsHokieFan]

My prediction...we get a deal done out of this and soon. Just my gut feeling.

Disagree, based on this

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-cole_pivotal_meetings_for_goodell_061811

Some in the ownership group saw that as a positive in the big picture because it meant that the hardliners – generally believed to include the likes of Jerry Richardson (Carolina Panthers), Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys), Mike Brown (Cincinnati Bengals), Dan Snyder (Washington Commanders) and Ralph Wilson (Buffalo Bills) – would have to back off because their power play failed.

Another tricky element to all of this is that the vast majority of owners have little knowledge of what the deal is right now. Because Judge Arthur Boylan, who has been mediating the sessions, has requested that both sides keep the talks as confidential as possible, very few owners outside the negotiating team are believed to know the specifics.

However, the negotiations with the trade association have exposed Goodell as weak in the eyes of many people, particularly players. From Derrick Mason(notes) to Chester Pitts(notes) to getting booed by fans at the NFL draft in April, Goodell has been openly criticized on numerous fronts. For instance, there was a curious reaction on the morning of March 11, the day that talks broke down with players. King wrote that Goodell had been given approval by the owners the previous night to cut the best deal he could get.

Rather than seeing that as proof of Goodell’s power, many people around the league, in the media and, most importantly, among the players wondered why Goodell didn’t have that power before.
Or as the aforementioned source on the player’s side said, rhetorically: “If he couldn’t cut a deal before, why were we talking to him?”

In nasty labor situations, there is always a moment where there is "optimism" that something is gonna break. It happened in baseball back in 1994, and in the NHL in February 2004, it looked like there could be a season.

Both failed. Labor deals usually come out of nowhere when things seem hopeless. There is a long way to go, and I am still betting economic blood is shed with the preseason cancelled

 

[Wimbo]

NFL owners to begin meetings tomorrow in Chicago

6/20/2011 2:15:55 PM

NFL owners will meet in Chicago Tuesday, and perhaps into Wednesday, to discuss the status of negotiations with the players for a new collective bargaining agreement. NFL teams were advised last week to be prepared an extra day.

NFL owners and players have met over the the past three weeks and reportedly there is enough optimism to believe that progress is being made toward a new CBA.

There were reports that there are a few owners who may not be satisfied with the deal that might be presented at the owners meetings. Of course, it would only take nine owners to strike down any proposal that might be presented.

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My prediction...we get a deal done out of this and soon. Just my gut feeling.

Where is that article from?

 

[Hostile]

Where is that article from?

Good question. Usually the link is in the first paragraph. I didn't even notice it wasn't there.

http://www.theredzone.org/BlogDescr...gin-meetings-tomorrow-in-Chicago/Default.aspx

 

[cowboys#1]

there will be no deal.

 

[burmafrd]

most of what was there was BS and the authors mostly uninformed and personal opinion. Therefore not worth much.

 

[Fletch]

there will be no deal.

There will be a deal.

 

[big dog cowboy]

There will be a deal two weeks from today before July 4th.