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Save big money at Menards. Ryan, did you have much dialogue at all about Ian Cunningham and the compensatory pits? Yeah. I'll see most of you guys at the league meetings and we can talk about that. I'll leave that alone right now.
Yeah, don't think that we're not thinking about that, Ryan Poles, because we're thinking about you thinking about thinking about it. Where are the draft picks, NFL?
What updates are coming from the NFL owners meetings?
Let's go to our hotline and bring in a guest who is at the league meetings and doing work. It is Kaylin Kaler. We always like talking to Kaylin. She joins us via our hotline. And she's on Twitch, twitch.tv slash TheScoreChicago. She's a senior NFL reporter for ESPN. You can check out her content on Instagram at KaylinKaylorReports and on TikTok at KayDogReports. I'm glad to see that account is getting more love. She's also at KaylinKaylor on Twitter. Hey, Kaylin, thanks for joining us. Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. What is the latest that you're hearing right now? I know that you get to the NFL owners' meetings and sometimes there's news that happens immediately and you're on the ground running. What are you sniffing out so far?
Yeah, so this is, in relation to recent meetings, this is actually a pretty, like... boring meeting, like everyone I talked to is like, yeah, there's like nothing going on, like nothing interesting is happening. However, I would say the biggest news is the negotiations, the CBA negotiations that are not going well between the NFL Referees Association and the league. That deal, that CBA, the current deal expires May 31st. It's March 30th. So there are basically two months left for the two entities to work something out. But, you know, there's been a lot of chatter about that. And we had a couple of league sources tell us yesterday that the league is essentially operating under an assumption that this CBA, based off of the recent negotiations and how things were not making any progress between the two parties, is
You know, one source told us they're very far apart and it would take an act of God. That was literally what this leak source said is unless an act of God occurs, they are preparing to go forward with replacement officials. And what's interesting about that is that 2012 was the last time that there was a lockout with officiating and they used replacement officials that year. And it went very poorly. The most famous official. Incident of that experience was the fail Mary between the Packers and the Seahawks when the wrong team was awarded the touchdown and and it decided the winner of that game. And that was a really egregious example of what can happen when you have a. very different level of officiating out there on the field.
Those were low-level college officials, and they just were not prepared. And so what the league source told us yesterday is that the last time around in 2012, the mistake that the league views that they made that time around is that they did not start preparing for replacement officials until July. and they're already preparing now is what the league sources are telling us, is that they are preparing now. They are reaching out to college officials D1, D2, and D3, and they are going to start training them as if they're going to take the field this season beginning May 1st was the date that a league source told us is when they're going to start training these officials. Now, they can't have them on the field until this current CBA expires, which is May 31st.
But they can start onboarding them and beginning this process of getting them ready for an NFL season. Because the reason it was so bad the last time around when they used replacement officials is the speed between the college game and the NFL game is so different. So this time around, the league sources that we spoke to yesterday said to us that they're not going to find themselves in that position. They're not going to panic this time. They're going to be prepared and they have to be prepared for the expiration of the CBA based off the fact that the two sides are still very far apart.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:36
2
What updates are coming from the NFL owners meetings?
0:36–9:23
3
What are the implications of the NFL Referees Association negotiations?
9:23–12:59
4
How did the NFL handle the last officiating lockout?
12:59–19:56
5
What new rules are being proposed for NFL officiating?
19:56–42:32
Speakers
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