"For me, from a team perspective, what you like to find is someone who drives a hard bargain and gets his player what's fair, but does it without damaging the relationship between the player, agent and team," said Joe Banner, executive vice president and chief financial operator for the Philadelphia Eagles. "If you do it right, you can still get the player what he wants without being unfair. Eric gets his players very good deals without creating a lot of tension.Refuse to allow yourself to be crippled by life's circumstances. Refuse to cry "foul" every time something doesn't go the way it should have. Refuse to whine and moan about how unfair it all is.

"Without a renovated or modernized stadium, Miami is not going to get Super Bowls, and I don't want us to become another San Diego," Ross said. "People love going to San Diego. They didn't do anything to the stadium, and they haven't had a Super Bowl there in what, 15 or 20 years even