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SI.com: John P. Lopez: Rookie contracts are ridiculous but don't expect change

The overwhelming sentiment around the NFL is that some kind of "Crabtree Rule" will be a no-brainer when the next collective bargaining agreement is negotiated.

SI.com: Peter King: Mike Tomlin's gripe and Dr. Z's fundraiser

LOS ANGELES -- Leftovers from an all-business annual NFL meetings, with some news about an event to help the good Dr. Z heal thyself ... and with 26 days before the draft, what would MMQB be without a nugget or two about the fate of the Lions at No. 1:

SI.com: DeMaurice Smith named NFLPA executive director

In a year in which sweeping and historic change has come to Washington, D.C. on a national scale, the NFL Players Association followed suit with the trend Sunday night, electing D.C.-based attorney DeMaurice F. Smith, a relative unknown quantity in NFL circles, as the union's new executive director, SI.com has learned.

SI.com: Don Banks: Solidarity lacking as union prepares to elect leader

Musings, observations and the occasional insight as we tip-toe through a Friday the 13th in the NFL offseason...

SI.com: Don Banks: Upshaw's widow says Vincent not fit for job

As the contentious process of electing a new executive director of the NFL Players Association nears its conclusion in less than two weeks, Terri Upshaw, the widow of longtime NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw, told SI.com on Thursday that she questions whether former union president Troy Vincent would be "the right candidate'' to fill the powerful job her husband held for 25 years before his death in August 2008.

SI.com: Don Banks: Upshaw had proof Vincent released agents' confidential info

With the NFL Players Association having outside legal counsel investigate whether former union president Troy Vincent improperly released confidential information about agents to a longtime friend and business partner, Mark Mangum, sources tell SI.com that one revelation expected to come to light is that former NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw had collected numerous internal e-mails from Vincent allegedly proving that he disclosed the privileged information.

Fortune: NFL chief huddles up in a tough year

Roger Goodell is one of those rare people who always knew what they wanted to do: On graduating from college, he wrote to his father (New York Congressman and Senator Charles Goodell) that he intended to become commissioner of the National Football League. He nabbed an unpaid internship at the NFL and 23 years later achieved his goal.

SI.com: Dr. Z: You can't spell hapless without PSL

Achtung Loyalists! Your faithful narrator is being ripped by Sean of Rochester for being a copout and so wimpy that he's chicken to take a shot at the Personal Seat License scam. Coward, that's what he says I am, and what's worse, a coward with a weight problem.

SI.com: Gene Upshaw: 1945-2008

Of course, death could have him as it could have any man: any way it wanted. But an odd thing happened last week once it entered that big house, Gene Upshaw. Death became him.

SI.com: Dr. Z: Remembering the late Gene Upshaw

Gene Upshaw came into the NFL through a scam, and the guy scammed later became one of the most respected personnel men in the league. But in 1967 Ron Wolf was just a hard-working, 27-year-old super scout for Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders, and as the draft approached he knew he was going to have a war on his hands.

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