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Regarding the injury, from what i recall on the Jon Thompson show, he tried to come back to early and slipped on the wet turf and basically ended his season and ultimately his time in DC. There was a whole big story of why he left DC. Basically, other guys on the team came to him and said if he didn't restructure his deal then they would be cut and didn't want to leave DC. So he went to the powers that be and said he would rework his contract if these guys had guarantees worked into theirs. They wouldn't do it, so to save them from getting cut (and save him from playing under Joe) he decided to give back the money, leave and allow those other guys to continue their careers in DC.
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I have never heard this rendition until now. I sure hope you heard this from some other player besides LA because this screams of Lavar taking a bad situation and turning it to his advantage. and... I'm talking about the players he was trying to save stepping up and saying yes we went to him about his contract. and perhaps J.Gibbs or Cerrato who was there at the time coming forward and confirming that LA simply wanted the other players to have guarentee's in their contracts if he lowered his money amount. Otherwise I can't believe this happened.
No offense but it sounds more like LA trying to grand stand his situation of having to leave the Skins. Which was more about his not playing in the position he was supposed to be in, in GW defensive scheme. I too believe LA could have been a bigger beast but that would mean the Skins developing their system around his abilities kinda like what the Titans did with Haynesworth.