"There's something wrong about the system. The money should go to people who perform." These are the words of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the large contracts rookies have been receiving of late.

Goodell specifically criticized the 5-year $58 million contract Jake Long received from the Miami Dolphins in April.

Goodell attacked the legitimacy of these lucrative rookie contracts because the players haven't yet proved themselves as being worth long term, highly paid contracts.

"You can lose a significant amount of money," warns Goodell, "If you don't evaluate that player [properly]." He recommends that teams sign rookies to lesser contracts but allow the contracts to be renegotiated depending on how that player performs.

It is Goodell's desire that the veteran players who have proved themselves receive the big contracts rather than the unproven rookies. I must say that on this rare occasion, I agree with the Commissioner.

One simple example is strong enough to convince me that, as Roger Goodell stated, "There is something wrong about the system." That example is Dolphins tackle Jake Long.

While many "experts" strongly believe that he will be a great player, Mr. Long has yet to play a single snap in the NFL. He may very well be a fantastic, Pro Bowl caliber tackle. However, right now, he is not. Right now, he is an unproven rookie and he could, like many praised rookies in the past, turn out to be a bust in the NFL.

Ending with the words of the Commissioner, "Money [that could be going to proven players] is going to players who are not performing. It's going to a player that never makes it in the NFL. And I think that's ridiculous."