An overhaul of the football operations department that could include leadership changes for 2013 is on the agenda of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports. A league spokesman denied what the sources have told ESPN about the overhaul. The league officiating department and football operations have undergone an extensive evaluation for the past year, independent from the labor negotiations with the NFL Referees Association, sources said. Additionally, now that an eight-year labor agreement has been reached with the league's game officials, sources say renewed discussions are anticipated about establishing a new base of operations outside the NFL's Park Avenue office in New York primarily for full-time officials who will be hired in 2013. Among the sites that have been discussed previously for a new base of operations for officiating include New Jersey, where NFL Films is based in Mt. Laurel. Source: The Redzone
