Derrick Mason's agent, C. Lamont Smith, releases statement regarding retirementSubmitted by admin on July 13, 2009 - 5:28pm |
“On Friday July 10, I received a call from my client Derrick Mason and he advised me that after careful and deep thought, he had made a decision to retire from professional football," explained Derrick Mason's career long agent, C. Lamont Smith.
"He indicated that he did not want me to continue to seek a contract extension from the Baltimore Ravens and that his decision had little if anything to do with Baltimore’s refusal to grant him an extension."
"He stated that emotionally and physically he did not feel up to the enormous demands that professional football requires to compete at the level that he is accustomed to competing. He asked me to delay the announcement of this decision out of respect for his former teammate Steve McNair, so this was obviously complied with at his request."
"After speaking with Derrick, I telephoned Ozzie Newsome, the Ravens’ general manager and advised him of Derrick’s decision. Given that Derrick just reached this decision on Friday, he has not as of yet filed official papers with the league offices. I expect that he will do this when he gets around to it."
"Derrick has indicated that he does not wish to do interviews at this time and respectfully requests that the media refrain from making such requests of him for the next two weeks.”
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Oh yeah, Derrick Mason sure didn't have a problem running off to ESPNews for an interview within hours of his website announcement. Its funny, he doesn't want to talk to any media now, until 2 weeks....which just happens to be the start of training camp. What a scam.
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