Mick Hunt explains how teams assess character during recruitment and why coaches must be honest with players after incidents. He compares growing NFL salary commitments to national debt, showing how budgetary pressure forces tough conversations about re-earning standing under contract.
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When we're going through our process of finding athletes, we try to really screen for that, you know, and that's hard because sometimes it'll come out later in life, right? But we really try to screen for that and like really do a lot of character evaluation on our players. But I would say if I was faced with that situation, you just have to be honest with the player, be like, look, you were the best. Now you have to prove that you're the best again because you're currently under a contract you sign, right? And every year it's kind of like, you know, if you compare it to the national debt, unfortunately our debt keeps growing, right? So the budget for the NFL keeps growing every single year. And so that debt that America has, things are going to adjust according to that debt. What percentage people are taking of it. It's the same thing with a salary.