Walsh is scheduled to meet with Goodell at the NFL offices in New York at 7:30 a.m. Afterward, he will travel to Washington to meet with Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has been critical of the NFL's handling of the investigation.

Last week, Walsh sent the NFL eight videotapes that showed the Patriots recording play-calling signals. The tapes included signals by coaches of five opponents in six games from 2000 to '02.

League officials said the tapes were consistent with what they already knew.

Walsh worked for New England from 1997 to 2003. After more than two months of negotiations, lawyers for the league and Walsh finally agreed April 23 to terms that would allow him to talk with Goodell. They include an agreement by the Patriots not to sue Walsh and to pay his legal expenses and his airfare to New York from Hawaii, where he is a golf pro.

Bears. Former Penn State star Robbie Gould became the highest-paid NFL kicker, agreeing to a five-year, $15.5 million contract extension with the Chicago Bears that includes a $4.25 million signing bonus. The deal runs through 2013.

Gould has made 84 of 99 field-goal attempts and 99 of 100 PATs with the Bears. He hit 31 of 36 field-goal attempts last season and made the Pro Bowl after the 2006 season, when he scored 143 points.

His new deal trumps the five-year, $14.2 million contract Josh Brown signed with St. Louis on March 1.

Giants. New York signed seven free agents, including Jacob Hobbs.

An offensive tackle who played at the University at Albany, Hobbs was signed by the Eagles last spring and appeared in four preseason games before being trimmed from the roster on the final cut in September.

Nate Robinson, a rookie defensive tackle who played for Rutgers and then for Akron, was also signed.

Jurisprudence. Prosecutors in Miami said they would not seek the death penalty against four men charged with slaying Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor because the accused shooter was a minor when the crime was committed.

Assistant State Attorney Reid Rubin filed notice Friday that the death penalty would be waived. That means the four suspects could get a maximum of life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder after a trial scheduled to begin Aug. 25.

Eric Rivera Jr., who turned 18 last month, was 17 at the time police say he shot Taylor during a botched robbery at the Pro Bowl safety's Miami-area home in November.

Taylor, 24, died of massive blood loss after he was shot in the upper leg.