Whatever else it may be, the NFL is a business – and at no time is it ever not that. Players, coaches, and owners for that matter have varying degrees of motivation for dedicating their lives to the game but make no mistake about it every player, coach, owner and (especially) agent is being paid to be doing what they’re doing. Paid pretty handsomely actually.
Now, how handsome anyone’s salary is comes down to how valuable they are, right? This is mostly like true in your situation. Unless you are somehow unusually tethered to it in a way that disallows you to break free (like a family commitment or something) then your commitment to whatever it is you do for a living is going to track pretty closely with how much you are compensated/treated in your workspace.