Kingsbury back

Great news. He would be foolish to leave our situation for the saints and their predicament. At least we get one more year with him. Maybe they can throw some money at him / associate HC / heir to the throne and persuade him to stay longer, but I'd say odds are he will be HC elsewhere in 2026. Next year will be exciting, and hopefully one of the other guys on staff will be ready to take over and continue the scheme.
 
Plus, the job title is nice, but loving your job is better. Kliff has said this gig has renewed his love of football. That may mean that he's a natural OC/playcaller and head coaching isn't his bag or it might be something else. Maybe he can HC again and it will be fulfilling, but there's no guarantee. Sometimes, a little less money and a little less glory is better if the trade off is what he seems to have here.
 
CommDownMan said:
Also, seeing he signed 3yr/18 mill with commanders. 20% drop is significant, but he's not hurting.
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Right. Plus, if he gets 6m from us and 7m from Arizona, that's the 13m that Johnson just got from the Bears.
 
Thanks for explaining that, gang...I don't know how contracts, cap hits & such work.
 
HOF44 said:
This is correct I think. If we are paying 6 to him Zona has to pay 1.5.
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So if he did nothing, Zona would pay him 7.5? ie he makes a max salary of 7.5 whether he works 90 hrs/week or none, seems strange
 
bowhunter said:
So if he did nothing, Zona would pay him 7.5? ie he makes a max salary of 7.5 whether he works 90 hrs/week or none, seems strange
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That’s correct. He could do nothing for 7.5 a year. He actually did for awhile then got bored.
 
I'm not sure why we'd offer 6 million if it just offsets. That happens in baseball with waiver pickups and new teams always pay the minimum. I don't know with nfl coaches, but I feel like the commanders would have offered less if that's true.
 

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Business of Football: How Fired Coaches’ Contracts and the End of the NFL Season Work

From terms like "with cause" to "mitigation" to possible arbitration with the league, here's what it looks like when a deal is terminated.
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Mitigation​

Guarantees in coaching contracts are offset guarantees, meaning the firing team’s financial liability is reduced if and when the coach secures work and is paid by another team during the term of the contract. While the firing team has an obligation to pay off the contract, the fired coach has a duty to mitigate,meaning he has an obligation to seek and find a similar coaching position with another team (that can be a college team as well). In other words, the fired coach cannot simply sit and collect his paycheck; he has to mitigate and try to find another job, with the payments from the new job offsetting the amount owed from the firing team.

Reputation​

Reputation-wise, the mitigation issue told me a lot about how a couple of NFL teams operate.

I dealt with the mitigation issue when managing legal and business issues with the Packers. After we fired a coaching staff in Green Bay, we found ourselves with many fired coaches being hired by other teams. Usually, the other team did the right thing, paying the fired coach a market-value contract for that job, often similar to what we owed him, sometimes wiping away our financial burden completely. However, in a few cases, the other teams were not as upstanding.

These situations showed me how certain NFL teams operate to save a few bucks at the expense of league “partners.” I will never forget these experiences, and they know that I know how they operate. And no, I will not name them here, but they know who they are.

The business of the NFL is cutthroat not only between players and teams, but can be between teams as well.
 
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CommDownMan said:
He has Arizona paying him until 2027 (from what I'm seeing online), 7.5 million per year. He's got a great gig with Daniels. He should be picky.
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I think he’d being paid enough the end of 2025.

This is great news - hard to overstate how important having the same offense and the continuity to build on what was achieved in 2024 is for Daniels.
 
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