There's no hard and fast deadline for the lockout to end in order to get a full NFL season in -- even Roger Goodell, on a recent call with Steelers season-ticket holders, said there was no "drop-dead date." But Jim Irsay, who's been fairly outspoken about getting a deal done on Twitter thus far, think that the 4th of July is when the NFL should target if they want training camp this season. "There's a window where we can get something done," Irsay said, via Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star. "But we really need to get something done by the Fourth of July or thereabouts so we can get in and have training camp and preseason and get ready that way. There has to be some real urgency to get this thing resolved and really have a full season with a training camp and preseason games. It would be very unfortunate if we get a deal done Oct. 1 that we could have gotten done on July 10. The losses are great if we start missing preseason games and early (regular-season) games." That's probably a pretty good estimate on Irsay's part. There's just one problem: the Court of Appeals is highly unlikely to rule on the June 3 lockout hearing by that time, as it's estimated they could take between 45 and 60 days to do so. Source: CBS Sports
Good news is that there's plenty of time. Bad news is they are no closer today than when they started this whole mess...
I thought they would have made a deal by now. Get ready for a shortened NFL season if we have one at all.
As long as the lockout doesn't exceed past week 3 of the 2011 season.....there should still be a season. Hopefully......
There can still be a shortened one as well. If the lockout ends September 25th or whatever week 3 is and Goodell thinks the teams will be up and ready to go with the schedule from Week 4 on, he's smoking crack. Teams are realistically going to need at the very least 2-3 weeks prep before going into live game action. Otherwise it's going to be a disaster.
I don't think Goodell cares if the teams are ready to go week four. He's going to make them go. It's going to be Preseason esque football for all for the first few weeks
