NFL, NFLRA talks continue to go nowhere
Fail Mary 2 is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. The NFL has implemented a plan to have replacement officials ready to go — with active assistance from the officiating department — if talks on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement fail to result in a new deal before the start of the season. Obviously, the games must go on.
Even if the officiating (which is already far from perfect) gets a lot worse. During a Wednesday conference call with reporters, NFL P. R.
boss Jeff Miller provided an update regarding the talks, through the lens of his expertise. Via Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, the league and the NFLRA also commenced on Wednesday the first of a planned two-day negotiating session. Jones reports that the talks ended after the morning session on the first day .
"We're willing to sit at the negotiating table and work this through," Miller said during Wednesday's conference call, per Jones. "We want to get to a deal with the officials. We've said that repeatedly.
We've worked on negotiations with them for going on two years at this point. We believe that there's an opportunity here to improve our officiating and improve the performance and improve the accountability around it. And we will pay for performance.