You can bet that every player has filed this sloppy episode away for another day. It could have been behind closed doors and nobody would have known until the first mini-camp when everybody reported. The message to Moore was take it or leave it. After Moore's 10 years of blood and sweat for an organization, that's a tough pill to swallow. Most guys would be bitter about the entire situation.
Life is too short to sit there and hold grudges.
If we're going to do this, you have to do it with a clear conscience, and I have a clear conscience. We can talk all we want, the date was the date. Nothing was going to happen until June anyway, regardless of what happened. The biggest factor, though, had nothing to do with money. On Monday night, the Lions knew Jerry Rice was staying on the West Coast and signing with the Oakland Raiders.