4) The combine is all about the meetings. The combine wraps up Tuesday with most agents, teams and players leaving town. By all accounts, it's been a busy week for meetings. While it doesn't seem that the free-agent market is going to be a high-speed, high-powered one, there certainly is an ample list of players to keep teams interested. The difference this year from, say, three years ago is that the free-agency period is more than a week away from the combine, so teams have been reluctant, in many instances, to discuss specific numbers with agents of prospective clients. Yes, the anti-tampering window has helped, though not everyone is following the rules. There still have been talks. What are these meetings like? One agent explained that he'll sit down and detail his free-agent client for a team. The team will say, "What's your dollar range?" The agent will answer with the basic parameters of a possible deal, with a ball-park per-year average. The team will then ponder and respond, saying whether it would be interested or not. If it is, that's one target to pursue when free agency opens. If not, the team moves on. Pretty simple.