Welcome to the era of contradiction. It was just recently that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared to confirm that it was indeed the league’s intention to work toward the completion of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement in time for the start of the 2019 season.
Following the fourth formal meeting between the NFL and NFLPA yesterday, however, Mike Garafalo reported for the NFL Network that he was told not only that a deal is unlikely to be done by then (not a shock), but that the league actually isn’t that concerned about pushing for that.