The Latest: Cardinals coach Arians likes full-time officials

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2015, file photo, Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel speaks with media members following the team's 30-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in an NFL football game in Seattle. New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton shot down a report that his team had interest in troubled quarterback Johnny Manziel. They did meet during Super Bowl week, but Payton called the report the team was considering adding Manziel "false." (AP Photo/Scott Eklund, File) FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2015, file photo, Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel speaks with media members following the team's 30-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in an NFL football game in Seattle. New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton shot down a report that his team had interest in troubled quarterback Johnny Manziel. They did meet during Super Bowl week, but Payton called the report the team was considering adding Manziel "false." (AP Photo/Scott Eklund, File)

By Associated Press March 29, 2017 3 min read

PHOENIX (AP) – The Latest from the NFC coaches breakfast Wednesday that has concluded the NFL owners meetings (all times local):

9:20 a.m.

Arizona Cardinals coach Bruce Arians has long advocated that NFL officials be hired full time.

In his first season as a member of the league’s competition committee, Arians said he thinks the league is moving in the direction of hiring 17 full-time referees, one for each crew.

“There’s a lot of negotiations in that process between the union and the league,” he said at the conclusion of the NFL owner meetings, “but if we can have the head of each crew full time because of the consistency level of what’s being said to the rest of the crew.”