"Texans owner Bob McNair will attend the NFL's annual spring meetings at New Orleans next week confident the owners will eventually work out a new collective bargaining agreement with the players. "I think we're going to get it resolved before too much damage is done," McNair said Friday after returning to Houston from a business trip. "We're (owners) going to do everything we can to negotiate an agreement. "At some point in time, I think the players will recognize there's a way to come to a reasonable resolution and go back to work. I'm confident we will, but I don't know when." There have been no negotiations since the NFL Players Association decertified eight days ago and the owners imposed the lockout. Both sides have been preparing for the April 6 hearing on the injunction that will determine if the lockout continues or if they return to work and let it play out in the courts. "I'm disappointed that the players' representatives walked away from the negotiating sessions," McNair said. "I thought it was a very fair proposal, very generous. "I'm disappointed they didn't study the proposal. If they had questions, they could have negotiated or discussed it and really gotten serious about the negotiations because it's very favorable to the players. We more than met them halfway." DeMaurice Smith, who was executive director of the union, members of the players' negotiating team as well as their executive committee debunked the owners' last offer." Read more: http://www.prosportsdaily.com/articles/texans-owner-disappointed-by-negotiations-477018.html
