NFL trying to negotiate a CBA to avoid the lockout!

FOX Sports' Alex Marvez reports that the NFLPA has entered negotiations with commissioner Roger Goodell on a six-year Collective Bargaining Agreement that would extend through the 2016 season.

"We’re going to negotiate a six-year deal," said NFLPA director DeMaurice Smith. Smith is "adamant" the owners provide documentation of their financial records before a new CBA is struck, but the mere fact that there's progress so early in the process is promising. Both sides have too much money to lose from a lockout. "There will be an agreement at some point," said Goodell. "Sometimes, these things don’t happen until you get a little closer to the end (of the CBA). That’s just the reality." Expect something to be finalized next winter.