“I tirelessly tried every possible scenario to avoid getting to this point,” Dennison’s agent, Peter Schaffer, said in a statement to the News. “This is not something Coach Dennison relishes. We just didn’t have a choice, because the team is not living up to their word and their agreement. That’s the frustrating part to us. You really would hope that NFL teams and their leaders would hold themselves to very higher standards and always be honorable and ethical.”