NFL owners and players met for over 11 hours on Wednesday in the first face-to-face talks this week. Starting with 9:00 am morning meetings, the players began filing out around 8PM Wednesday evening, while the owners stayed and held internal meetings until around 10PM.
The players stayed on call for a possible late night negotiating session that was discussed, but that plan was ultimately scrapped in favor of resuming meetings at 9AM on Thursday as reported by NFL.com. According to sources on both sides of the table, very little progress was made today on the remaining core issues.
The NFL players were represented by NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith and General Counsel Richard Berthelsen, Indianapolis Colts center Jeff Saturday, Baltimore Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth, and retirees Sean Morey, Don Davis and Pete Kendall.
The NFL owners were represented by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and a majority of the 10-man labor committee, including Carolina Panthers owner and committee chairman Jerry Richardson, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, New York Giants owner John Mara and Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II.
