Pash 'optimistic' about new deal

Topdawg13 · Jul 22, 2010

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"There will be an agreement, I am very confident of that. I can't tell you when but we are going to work as hard as we can," Pash said Thursday in an interview with ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike in The Morning."

Pash was a guest of the program to respond to comments made by NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, who laid out the players' case Wednesday on the program.

Pash said the sides have been meeting regularly but said the uncertainty of the economy is one of the reasons why an agreement hasn't been reached yet.

"Businesses all over America are sitting on cash. They are not hiring, they are not expanding because they don't know what the economy is gong to be like," Pash said.

Pash, however, said there were key issues that needed to be addressed in the next collective bargaining agreement.

Pash said the players have rejected the owners' request that players be subject to HGH testing.

"Our understanding of the science is that there have been substantial advances," he said. "The Olympic anti-doping authorities have validated the test. We think it's at the point where it's appropriate to introduce it into the NFL."

The players, concerned about safety issues, also haven't agreed to an 18-game regular season.

"As part of a restructuring of the season we should look at how we handle offseason workouts; how we handle practice regiments, roster sizes, injured reserve rules, a whole host of things that could be part of an overall restructuring of the football calendar to address the injury concerns," Pash said.
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