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It's time to go around the league.

We'll start with this one that came out overnight.

NFL owners, they're, quote, alarmed by the state of negotiations with the referees association

and have authorized staff members to begin hiring and onboarding replacement officials in the coming weeks,

according to league sources at the start

of league meetings. The NFL began compiling a list of college level officials to recruit earlier

this month, and owners are expected this week to approve a sweeping set of replay enhancements

to support replacement officials in preseason and regular season games. A league source says that training of the new officials will begin May 1st.

According to a source, once that happens, the opportunity to reach an agreement with

our current union becomes a bigger challenge just from civil economics.

That effectively leaves about a month for the sides to bridge what league sources said

are wide gaps in their

proposals from economics to the seasonal structure of the job. The NFL's collective bargaining

agreement with the NFLRA expires on May 31st. The league sent a memo to each club last week,

prohibiting public comment on the situation. This would be an absolute disaster.

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