PHOENIX (AP) -- The Latest from the NFC coaches breakfast Wednesday that has concluded the NFL owners meetings (all times local):
9:20 a.m.
In his first season as a member of the league's competition committee, Arians said he thinks the league is moving in the direction of hiring 17 full-time referees, one for each crew.
''There's a lot of negotiations in that process between the union and the league,'' he said at the conclusion of the NFL owner meetings, ''but if we can have the head of each crew full time because of the consistency level of what's being said to the rest of the crew.