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Jared Odrick keeps a sense of humor about release from Jaguars with funny picture

Jared Odrick was cut by the Jaguars on Monday. (AP)
Jared Odrick was cut by the Jaguars on Monday. (AP)

It can’t be fun to get fired from a job that pays $6.5 million a year, especially a few weeks before a $2 million bonus kicks in, but Jared Odrick didn’t let it bother him.

The Jacksonville Jaguars cut the veteran defensive end on Monday. He signed a five-year, $42 million deal with the Jaguars in 2015 and like many NFL deals, it kind of ran its course. The Jaguars could save $8.5 million on the cap by cutting Odrick, so they did.

That’s one way to ruin a vacation to Cabarete Beach in the Dominican Republic, which is where Odrick said he was when he got the call that he was cut. But he posted this smiling picture of himself getting the news to Instagram with the caption, “This is me getting released by the @Jaguars.”

This is me getting released by the @Jaguars

A post shared by Jared Odrick (@maxbaer75) on Feb 20, 2017 at 11:17am PST

Doesn’t look like he’s too depressed about it.

This is just life in the NFL. Contracts are meant to be broken, and it’s usually not a big surprise when it happens. Odrick is just 29 and he will probably get a new job soon, even if he doesn’t find one that pays him $6.5 million in base salary, which is what he was slated to make in 2017, 2018 and 2019 from Jacksonville.

Until then, he’ll probably keep enjoying his tropical trip.

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