he was released in 2004, after a series of troubling leg injuries and operations. about his release, brackens stated, "mentally and physically, i thought i could probably still do it, but i didn’t want to put up with all the rule changes. all the stuff they’re doing to players takes the fun out of the game." the moment in which he was let go was captured by nfl films in "jacksonville jaguars: inside the training camp", an unofficial version of the hard knocks tv series.