The NFL's lead labor negotiator says the league has offered to turn over more financial information than it ever has given to the players' union -- and more than the 32 clubs have access to.

On his way into Wednesday's mediation session, NFL general counsel Jeff Pash says the issue of financial transparency -- a key sticking point in labor talks this week -- "really should be behind us."



Wednesday morning's talks may be most critical yet in the collective bargaining process, a source told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen. Mediator George Cohen is meeting with smaller group of negotiators while the larger groups await word. The financial disclosures that remain the major stumbling block is the negotiations is believed to be Cohen's focus in mediation Wednesday.



"We've made more information available in the course of this negotiation than has ever been made available in decades of collective bargaining with the NFLPA," Pash said. "Far more information. And we've offered to make even more information [available], including information that we do not disclose to our own clubs."...................

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