{"id":8287,"date":"2011-06-23T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=8287"},"modified":"2011-06-23T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:17:48","slug":"statements-released-from-nflpa-and-nfl-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2011\/06\/23\/statements-released-from-nflpa-and-nfl-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Statements Released From NFLPA and NFL Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfllockout.com\/2011\/06\/23\/statements-from-smith-and-goodell-following-meetings\/\">NFLPA posted<\/a> statements from Executive Director DeMaurice Smith and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeMaurice Smith:<\/strong> <em>\u201cSomeone asked me whether I was optimistic. I think we\u2019re both optimistic when we have the right people in the room. We know we\u2019re talking about the right issues and that we\u2019re working hard to get it done. It is extremely complicated, it requires a lot of hard work by a lot of people, but we\u2019re committed to getting something done and we\u2019re going to keep working at it. Just to wrap up: we\u2019re working hard, we understand the fans\u2019 frustration, I know our players\u2019 frustration. We\u2019re going to keep working hard and try to make sure we get a deal done.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Goodell<\/strong>: <em>\u201cYou obviously know we met over the last couple of days. We are under court order as far as what we can discuss so our comments will be brief. But obviously we\u2019re all working hard. The players and owners were here over the last two days. De and I were here for the entire meetings also. And it\u2019s complicated and it\u2019s complex, but we\u2019re working hard and we understand the fans\u2019 frustration. But I think both of us feel strongly that we\u2019re going to continue to work hard at it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It appears that there has been some progress made with the negotiations.\u00a0 The early rumors have the league year beginning on July 15th.\u00a0 Keep your fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening the NFLPA posted statements from Executive Director DeMaurice Smith and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. DeMaurice Smith: \u201cSomeone asked me whether I was optimistic. I think we\u2019re both optimistic when we have the right people in the room. We know we\u2019re talking about the right issues and that we\u2019re working hard to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nfl-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-29F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8292,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}