While the focus every week is on football—as it should be, of course, since football is being played—there supposedly continues to be progress on the Collective Bargaining Front, as the NFL and the NFLPA remain in ongoing negotiations throughout the progression of the regular season, and without the spotlight that is provided by the dead periods of the offseason.
CBA negotiations are typically fraught with drama, but that is largely driven by the reporting on the subject matter, and without the attention being paid to it, we are not really hearing about what’s going on. Neither side can afford to weaponize the media for their cause, either, as a byproduct of the timing of the negotiations, since the priority is now on the football that the negotiations are trying to preserve.