SanAngeloState
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.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.
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.
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....
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.
On target excepting those like me who love attending summer camp @ Gillette
I don't understand your logic.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.
Depends on what you mean by "missed games". They can have a lockout all the way to early September then start the season in late Septemeber and, due to various scheduling quirks implemented this year, still play 16 games.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.
im thinking the 15th of July as well. Anything after that and you start losing pre-season games
A fan boycott of merchandise hurts the owners. That's impact.
The Bengals who played in the HoF game last year started their camp on July 28 so couldn't they wait even further like a day or two before the 28th to strike a deal? Teams and the league are still preparing like a season is going to happen. They could have a lot of things done before a deal is even in place and go full steam ahead when the deal is settled. As far as regular season games, if a team can get ready for the HoF game in 12 days then why not the regular season? That said, the last day to strike a deal without missing the first game on September 8th would be August 27. Maybe a couple of days earlier to allow for travel time. My personal opinion is that some if not all preseason games will be missed. The owners already want to take away a couple games away with a 18-game season so why not force the issue?