The NFL's owners and players are hoping to end the league's longest work stoppage in the very near future. A timeline in which a new collective bargaining agreement could be struck is now in place. The owners' objective is to have a completed deal to vote on at their meeting Thursday in Atlanta, while NFLPA spokesman George Atallah told The Associated Press that the players would gather "with the hope they have something to look at, and with the hope we can move forward on this."