The NFL’s owners regularly meet every March, May, October, and December. This December’s meeting will happen not in person but by videoconference.

Via Mark Maske of the Washington Post , a two-hour virtual meeting is scheduled for Wednesday .

The specific topics that will be addressed aren’t known. Maske identifies one that won’t be — the pending extension to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract.

The 66-year-old Goodell’s current deal expires in March 2027. And while it’s highly unlikely that another sports league will be clamoring to pay Goodell as much or more than the NFL pays him, the NFL still has no clear succession plan.

That gives Goodell leverage, especially with CBA negotiations in the offing and the ability to pull the plug prematurely on the existing broadcast deals.

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