best reason to hope: De Smith didn't repeat his U of Md commencement speech while Goodell was sitting next to him.
on the other hand --
our rookie NT, who I guess is at the symposium said:
TruckNeild Chris Neild
..sounds like a temp job is possibly in my future
#endthelockout
5 minutes ago
That doesn't make it sound like the overall tone was upbeat.