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Originally Posted by YOUR Hero
NFL is a screwed up game as far as player rights are concerned. I see him going to a contender next year if he has any say in it.
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Yea I guess
Football is different though, you really can't afford to hang on to the same guys forever and stuff like in Basketball and Baseball.
Most players aren't that hard to replace(Obviously you can't really replace a Superstar star with a Superstar but football is a team sport) people break down, etc. Teams feel like they don't owe you anything and I mean why should they? You are getting paid a lot of money (even though they make less then baseball and basketball...2 sports that are less physically demanding..it still is a shitload of money) to play a sport Look at the Cowboys for example...Emitt Smith just was not going to work out in the backfield..he would have just ended up being a distraction IMO
Some people are exceptions though, like Jerry Rice, his skills really did not decrease but maybe the SF front office decided it was time to move on and they probably thought they could not get any furter with Rice and needed a change. Football is a different game and loyalitly can't really factor in a teams decisions of releasing because if it did then they would fall behind. Maybe just loose a little of an advantage..but you know they say "Football is a game of inches."