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Retirement not on Mathis' mind as he prepares for 2015 season

Rashean Mathis will turn 35 years old in August. In NFL years, after 12 seasons, he’s an elder statesman.

When he signed a two-year contract earlier this offseason, almost everyone assumed it would be the final contract of his career. Even Mathis had that mindset ... until just recently.

"I think I've got a new outlook on it because, sometimes when you look at the ending, you can look forward to the ending a little too much and don't really appreciate what today brings," he said Monday at the Charlie Sanders Foundation golf outing at Knollwood Country Club in West Bloomfield.