{"id":598449,"date":"2026-04-10T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598449\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:56:11","slug":"jerry-jones-joins-the-nfls-talks-with-the-nfl-referees-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598449\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones joins the NFL&#8217;s talks with the NFL Referees Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL and the NFL Referees Association have resumed their efforts to get a deal done. And the NFL, as expected, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nfl-nfl-referees-association-will-resume-negotiations-this-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:showed up with the big guns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;showed up with the big guns&quot;}\">showed up with the big guns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the attendees at Thursday&#8217;s bargaining session <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2042635715025002992?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:included Cowboys owner Jerry Jones;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;included Cowboys owner Jerry Jones&quot;}\">included Cowboys owner Jerry Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Seifert of ESPN reports that Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeifertESPN\/status\/2042633162342207646?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:meeting was productive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;meeting was productive&quot;}\">meeting was productive<\/a> and there is an expectation for continued discussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the current labor deal between the NFL and the NFLRA runs through May 31, the league has made noise about wanting to get a deal done by May 1, given that it plans to commence hiring replacement officials at that point.<\/p>\n<p>The overriding question is the real deadline, and whether both sides agree on it. That&#8217;s the key. Setting a deadline and agreeing to it. Until that happens, both sides will be leery about moving toward their bottom-line positions.<\/p>\n<p>So is it May 1? Is it May 31? Is it Week 1? The answer to that question will go a long way toward letting everyone know when nut-cutting time arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL and the NFL Referees Association have resumed their efforts to get a deal done. And the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,14135,291895,593,2361,281579,85,70236],"class_list":{"0":"post-598449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-jerry-jones","11":"tag-kevin-seifert","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-network","14":"tag-nfl-referees-association","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tom-pelissero"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}