NFL, NFLPA on verge of agreement that will allow season to happen on time 

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NFL training camps are scheduled to begin next week and all signs are pointing toward that actually happening, along with an on-time start to the 2020 season. 

There’s plenty of good news surfacing on Friday that leads us to believe that. 

First, the NFL has approved the current plan for training camp and the season during the COVID-19 pandemic: 

And then the NFL Players Association Executive Committee voted unanimously to recommend those changes to the CBA for this training camp: 

That means that if NFLPA player reps ratify the current proposal, we’ll get training camps starting next week. It’s all on the players now. If they heed the advice of their own players association executive committee, we’re looking at an on-time start for training camps. It would be surprising if they don’t. 

This is pretty exciting, but we’re not there yet. 

NFLPA player reps reportedly have a conference call set for 3:30 p.m. today. 

Perhaps the most important development in the most recent economic proposal is that the loss in revenue expected for the 2020 season would be spread across four seasons, beginning in 2021, according to NFL.com. The owners initially wanted it to be the next two years and the NFLPA wanted it across the length of the 11-year CBA. 

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