[Sources: NFL and players agree to CBA terms]

Reported by Jay Glazer:

Finally!

After years, months, weeks and days of haggling over all the details of a new collective bargaining agreement, the NFLPA and NFL finally came to an agreement on terms in the wee hours of Monday morning, FOXSports.com has learned.

The NFLPA player representatives and players still must vote to approve it, but at this point it appears a formality.

Sources within the negotiations told FOXSports.com that under the new agreement, the schedule will be different than originally reported. Under the new terms, team facilities will open as early as Tuesday and training camps will begin Thursday for 10 teams, Friday for another 10 and over the weekend for the remaining 12 teams.

There is still a chance that some unforeseen obstacle somehow can stall the agreement again, although that now seems unlikely.

Players will begin arriving at team facilities Tuesday to vote to recertify the NFLPA as a union. Once they do, they can negotiate terms for the league’s drug programs, player discipline fines, workers comp, etc.

For months there have been reports surfacing that a deal was close to completion, only to be false. Fans have hung on report after report hoping for a new deal and for pro football to return. It appears the NFL will be back without any games except the Hall of Fame Game being canceled.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/nfl-and-nflpa-agree-to-terms-of-new-collective-bargaining-agreement-072511

[NFL Games Will Be Longer]

Seems like doing a lot of extra work and maybe slow the game down (they might do it during commercial break, not affecting home viewers as much) just to fix a handful of plays each year

They won't do it during commercial break, it will be instantly after the play. If the call is right then we won't even notice a difference, if it's close then they call the referee in for a normal booth review.

They already do this in college for every single play, not just touchdowns. It's no big deal, it just means we should have less close calls to complain about next year.

[Break Out Colts]

he's got more speed than strength. it was also a couple preseason snaps. needs more playing time than that.

based on how terrible Hughes looked, Chick is better than him.

Hughes' potential is about 100 fold of Chicks' and Hughes is still young and has room to grow, which you can't really say for Chick.

Chick couldn't even make the team last year with our lack of quality de depth, he's cleary no Cameron Wake.

[Break Out Colts]

Chick didn't even look good in preseason last year. I don't think he has the speed or strength to be a good NFL de. He has a Keyunta Dawson feel to him, in my eyes.