It’s a bit coincidental. Wide receivers tend not to sign contracts of the length that quarterbacks sign, so what happens is you wind up with a year or two on a contract. In Terrell’s case, the contract he signed in Philadelphia was a seven-year deal, and he wanted out after the first year of it. He was underpaid, no question. But Brad Johnson, the quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, is about the 40th-[highest]-paid quarterback in the league at $1.2 million. There are rookies that are making more money than Brad Johnson, and he’s taken three teams to the play-offs.

What’s with the off-season motorcycle accidents over the past few years?
As a football player, you think you’re invincible — and that’s what happened to Ben Roethlisberger. He thought he was invincible on the football field because he won a world championship. Then you carry that over into society, forgetting that there are factors out there that don’t care whether you won a Super Bowl. All of a sudden, you wind up being susceptible to society. … It also happens to guys when they leave the game. We don’t have a senior tour in football. … There’s a finality that is very sudden and very difficult for a lot of players, and it carries over in the way we transfer ourselves from the game into what I call the real world.

Finally, how’s Monday Night Football on ESPN working out for you?
By the time everybody reads this, I’ll have done one of two things: I’ll either have killed Tony Kornheiser, or we will have gotten along great. One of those two things will have happened, and I’m sure it will have been the latter.