At the bottom of an Q&A session published today at ESPN.com, John Clayton reported that the owners refused to engage in settlement talks with attorneys for the players last week.
In an email statement to Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, the NFL confirms that they're not interested in settlement talks, but deny that such an offer was made.
"No such proposal was made by players or a player representative," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello informed PFT.com. "We are interested in negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. We wanted to continue negotiations at the federal mediation office based on our March 11 proposal, but the union walked away from negotiations and filed a lawsuit.
"We are not interested in discussing a litigation settlement. We are prepared to continue negotiations immediately over the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement and communicated that to the NFLPA two weeks ago."
Albert Breer of the NFL Network and NFL.com also reports that the NFLPA offered to meet with the NFL last week.
source: Mac's Football Blog
Posted by Brian McIntyre
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