In the months before and after the NFL draft, each NFL team will hire lots of players. Notable about the frenzied hiring is that a good number of those signed will be fired by September. Such is life in the NFL. It's a very competitive business, players and their agents know it's competitive, and players are much more focused on staying in shape and learning the game of football when they also know that a missed tackle, block or fumble could result in being let go.
Well away from sports, it's almost a trite observation to note that rates of unemployment among the able-bodied are historically higher in France than they are in the United States. One reason for the rate disparity is that it's very expensive to fire workers there. There's talk of reform under the Macron regime, plus it's no doubt true that much hiring in France is done under the table, but for now the possible expense of paying for someone not producing makes it costly to take a risk on hiring that person to begin with.
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