On the eve of Commissioner Roger Goodell’s meeting with former Pats employee Matt Walsh, the league is buzzing about one question.

What will Walsh share with Goodell about the work of Ernie Adams?

Adams is a supposed football genius, who apparently chooses to work behind the scenes because he prefers not to interact excessively with the human beings who breathe life into the X’s and O’s that Adams has spent a lifetime diagramming.

His reclusive nature has prompted many to wonder what his role truly is in the success of the Patriots, and it’s prompting speculation from multiple teams — or, as one source put it, all 31 of them that aren’t the Patriots — as to what Walsh will tell Goodell about Adams’ role.

And even if Walsh’s version of the events isn’t accepted at face value, anything Walsh says about Adams will give Goodell ammunition for framing specific follow-up inquiries to Adams, if Goodell is inclined to continue to pursue the situation.