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NEW YORK (AP)\u2014If these are not fun times for football fans, they are captivating days for lawyers.<\/p>\n

The NFL lockout is back in force after a short hiatus last week. A St. Louis appeals court could determine as early as Monday whether the league deserves a permanent stay of an injunction granted to the players in Minnesota to block the lockout.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in uncharted but fascinating legal territory,\u201d agent and attorney Ralph Cindrich said as he examined the short-term reinstatement of the lockout by three judges from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. \u201cThe owners\u2019 lockout is temporary now; it can become permanent after the same three judges do a detailed review. If the lockout is reinstated, it puts the players down on points big.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell leaves the federal courthouse in Minneapolis last week.
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If it\u2019s not, something Cindrich predicts, league business could resume almost immediately, even as more NFL appeals are filed. Cindrich believes that even though those judges voted 2-1 Friday to review the matter, they won\u2019t overturn Judge Susan Richard Nelson\u2019s original determination that the lockout was preventing the players from earning a living.<\/p>\n

With the draft behind them, the 32 teams can\u2019t have contact with any players. That includes veterans along with rookies just selected. It also means undrafted free agents, who usually sign contracts hours after the seventh round concludes or the next day.<\/p>\n

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Place your vote on Grudge Judge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cYou just do what you do and abide by the guidelines the league puts out as we go along,\u201d Rams general manager Billy Devaney said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s in the same boat; we\u2019re not stressing out or anything. It\u2019ll eventually get settled and you just go with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going with it for the players means training on their own. For first-round picks, it means devouring the playbooks they were able to get from their teams during Friday\u2019s short break in the lockout.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quarterbacks and offensive linemen and wide receivers, these young guys, can you imagine? With no mini-camps and no OTAs, if they show up Aug. 1 to training camp, they\u2019re going to be so lost,\u201d Montana-based agent Ken Staninger said. \u201cIt may be a lost draft, other than the elite-elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

For coaches, it means evaluating how they addressed their needs in the draft, and which undrafted players they might approach when allowed to do so.<\/p>\n

Dallas coach Jason Garrett has all his plans organized for offseason workouts and minicamps.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we did is we laid out the entire calendar for the offseason assuming there was no lockout,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cSo all of those dates were in place soon after the season ended. But obviously we had to be responsive to the lockout and when the players came back, and we\u2019ll continue to do that based on what the new rules are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those rules are uncertain even if the players win the next round in the appeals court. Among the league\u2019s options is reinstating the 2010 guidelines, which featured more limited free agency and no salary cap. And no minimum for spending, which could come into play more than ever with some owners who fear profits will continue to decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a chaotic time,\u201d said Ben Dogra, agent for Sam Bradford<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> and Patrick Willis<\/a>(notes)<\/a>,<\/span> among many other players. \u201cThere are a lot of moving points, and it means daily uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid the uncertainty, one message rang clear at Radio City Music Hall during the draft. It was delivered by the fans, who repeatedly booed Commissioner Roger Goodell and also chanted \u201cwe want football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goodell responded, \u201cSo do I.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, getting football back is in the hands of the judges.<\/p>\n

AP Sports Writers Richard Rosenblatt in New York, Stephen Hawkins in Dallas and R.B. Fallstrom in St. Louis contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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