If you thought Pablo and Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio set the NFL world on fire last month, wait until you get a load of the "diabolical genius" behind the cover-up... to the cover-up... to the cover-up: Fake injuries, encouraged by one union boss, only to be litigated by the league. Private-equity side hustles, cashed in on by another, only to be selectively edited on social media. And smoke. Lots of smoke.

• Read our newly obtained NFL document on Pablo's subscribers-only newsletter:

• Pre-order "Big Shield" by Mike Florio

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Shield-Mike-Florio-ebook/dp/B0FGH43V6D

• Previously on PTFO: The NFL's Secret Collusion Case, Revealed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P42Wq3fmTYg

• Sources: NFLPA, NFL agreed to keep collusion findings secret (Don Van Natta Jr. and Kalyn Kahler)

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45703132/nflpa-nfl-agreed-keep-collusion-findings-secret

• NFLPA head also works for firm approved to invest in NFL (Van Natta and Kahler)

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45705432/nflpa-head-works-firm-approved-invest-nfl

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