SanAngeloState

Mid July? Mid August? I'm thinking a deal is done by early August...they'll be ready to play in 6-7 weeks. Only miss a couple games if that's so.

Ron Sellers

Right now the first sunday of the regular season is scheduled for September 11. I suppose if it gets too close those week one games could be moved to the end of the season (January 8), and the Super Bowl be played one week after the conference championships rather than two weeks later. If you work backwards from there (9/11 or 9/18) I would think teams would need an absolute bare minimum of three weeks of training camp, along with time for free agency, so I would guess sometime in mid-August would be the point where missed games would become a foregone conclusion.

However, I think the two sides would come to an agreement before then. Preseason games are relatively profitable for owners, and neither side wants to be accused of being the cause of games being missed on the anniversary of 9/11.

BlueThunder

July 15th looks like a good deadline.....could get into camp on time and get playbooks, conditioning and start working out....only the rookies would be behind the 8 ball....and the vets who didn't stay in shape over the lockout....

Both sides have about 10 days to get their S-H-*-T together

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Boston Boxer

im thinking the 15th of July as well. Anything after that and you start losing pre-season games

PatsDeb

If training camps don't start on time at the end of this month, everyone (player, coaches, owners) will say they aren't "ready" to start the season on time. Even though I followed like a stupid sheep and re-upped my season tickets, we should all consider boycotting the NFL if they don't get something done this week or next. It's ridiculous.

dhamz

If you mean real games, the answer is probably the end of August. The NFL built the schedule so that it could start week 4 (October 2) and still play a 16 game season. Weeks 1 and 2 would be played at the end of the season, pushing the SB back a week and eliminating the week between the title games and SB. All week 3 match-ups are between teams that share the same bye week allowing those games to be rescheduled by eliminating byes.

italia44

I'll spot you a small a,if you'll give me a small t..

supafly

Yes, this. I could see the timeframe even being a couple weeks later, by mid-September. That would give them 2 1/2 weeks of some sort of preparation/TC, while still being able to play all 16 games starting Oct.2.

I don't think they will miss preseason games though, if so, they will still play at least 2, and they'll be scrambling like mad by that point to get a deal done.

Sean Pa Patriot

Well if a deal is not done by next fri, games will be missed... progress is slow again according florio and sal pal at espn... its getting discusting now....

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We going to take it one game at a time

dhamz

If you are talking in terms of preseason games, then next week is a real deadline. That means a lot to owners and players as they would lose ticket revenue and have to refund $ to their tv partners but as a fan I wouldn't lose sleep over it.