Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse.

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

...not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.