Goodell, Smith meet to talk about new CBA

According to a joint statement issued Monday afternoon by the National Football League and the NFL Players Association, NFLPA  Executive Director DeMaurice Smith and Commissioner Roger Goodell met Monday in New York to discuss a range of issues related to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. As part of a process to intensify negotiations, they agreed to hold a formal bargaining session with both negotiating teams on Saturday in the Dallas area. They also agreed to a series of meetings over the next few weeks, both formal bargaining sessions and smaller group meetings, in an effort to reach a new agreement by early March. The current CBA expires at the end of the day March 3, and the union expects the NFL to lock out players as soon as the next day.