re: Spoke with an NFL scout regarding early departures today.

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but that's still an extra year at zero and he is a year closer to the 2nd contract

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He said he was generalizing but he said you can't look at it like that, it is over the life of his contract and you have to look at it as life span in the NFL. He said there is nothing to say because you left early that you will stay longer than the NFL average in years. So if your first contract is worth $5mil over the life if you leave early but $10mil if you would have stayed. End of story you are going to make $5mil more. Your second contract is what it is and will be that no matter what if you perform. So over the life of your 2nd contract if it is $30mil you are going to make that no matter what. If it is a year delayed, you don't make that up in the $5mil you lost from leaving early as opposed to staying.