{"id":576540,"date":"2026-04-10T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:58:07","slug":"jerry-jones-joins-the-nfls-talks-with-the-nfl-referees-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576540\/","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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">showed up with the big guns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the attendees at Thursday\u2019s bargaining session <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2042635715025002992?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">included Cowboys owner Jerry Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Seifert of ESPN reports that Thursday\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeifertESPN\/status\/2042633162342207646?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">meeting was productive<\/a> and there is an expectation for continued discussions.\u201d <\/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\u2019s 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":576541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-576540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}