Listen To Earl Thomas
by Barry Petchesky from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3ZE12)
An NFL team wants to use a player up. Wants to squeeze every last bit of effectiveness and of health out of him, while he's still under contract, and then discard him. It's the nature of a salary-capped league where most players' careers are over before they turn 30, a brutally cold calculation that everyone on both"