... alt="">Talking about this offseason's NFL free agents used to hold little meaning, given, well, the NFL was in lockout mode and no players could be signed.

That, however, appears to have changed, with NFL Network's Albert Breer reporting on July 16 that a considerable amount of progress had been made in discussions between the players and the owners.

So much progress that the two sides agreed to stop holding negotiations face-to-face unless necessary, apparently content with working out the minor details of the new collective bargaining agreement via phone and email.

Breer tweeted that there was
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