CBA Uncertainty Forces Personnel Folks To Keep Open Minds

The reality of the NFL's labor dispute has the owners on one side and the players on the other. And in between are the league's "football people", the coaches and personnel men who put the teams together.While the CBA issue has simmered, those folks have sat on the sideline. For them, unlike just about anyone else, it's been business as usual to this point.

But if we reach March 4 without a new deal, everything changes. No free agency, no minicamps, no OTAs, and no sign of the normal spring routine for the league's scouts, coaches and personnel executives until there's a CBA. "We're operating like we're going to be ready to go on March 4," one NFC general manager said. "It's been business as usual.
We're having our free agent meetings, our draft meetings, at the exact same time we always have, because until March 4 happens, we don't know that it will be different. And you usually need deadlines to settle these types of things.

"Talk to me in May, and I'll tell you how different it is. Right now, we're doing the same thing we have."

What does that mean?

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