Safety Lawyer Milloy was a four-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion during the first seven seasons of his career at the backend of the New England Patriots defense.
He said in an interview on WEEI's Ordway, Merloni and Fauria (h/t Greg Joyce of the New York Post) that head coach Bill Belichick "disgusted" him with an ultimatum in 2003 to take a pay cut or start counting his days with the team:
"I think I went to my fourth Pro Bowl in five years and then I was given an ultimatum: either take a pay cut or leave it.