I will not be surprised to see Jaylon Johnson traded

[DanielCCSBears]

That's a real odd way of doing it.
So what happens if the coach retires with time left, the team gets screwed out of $5million to $15million per year?
Or dies.

That's a different scenario

 

[Myk]

That's a different scenario

How?
Are you talking about it's budgeted or it's actually paid. There is a big difference.

If it's actually paid the team gets screwed. The only way they could safe guard death is to have life insurance covering the contract amount. Retirement would just be a nice severance. Get that last contract signed and retire the next day.

If budgeted yes, but they're not budgeting for a 2nd HC salary for 3 out of 5 years.

 

[DanielCCSBears]

How?
Are you talking about it's budgeted or it's actually paid. There is a big difference.

If it's actually paid the team gets screwed. The only way they could safe guard death is to have life insurance covering the contract amount. Retirement would just be a nice severance. Get that last contract signed and retire the next day.

If budgeted yes, but they're not budgeting for a 2nd HC salary for 3 out of 5 years.

If you fire a coach without cause he typically gets the rest of his contract in the buyout.

 

[onebud34]

The thread title is still quite odd

 

[TheEarlofRobin]

The thread title is still quite odd

Yes, it should be re-titled "What if Eberflus died?"

 

[onebud34]

Yes, it should be re-titled "What if Eberflus died?"

The head coaching grim reaper got him

 

[Myk]

If you fire a coach without cause he typically gets the rest of his contract in the buyout.

So it's not paid ahead when the contract is signed like you said. Then my original point stands.

Any business would balk at firing a HC too early.

However the McCaskeys agreeing (or wanting, not sure of the structure then) to fire Emery and Trestman early makes not firing Flus "too early" questionable.

 

[DanielCCSBears]

So it's not paid ahead when the contract is signed like you said. Then my original point stands.

Any business would balk at firing a HC too early.

However the McCaskeys agreeing (or wanting, not sure of the structure then) to fire Emery and Trestman early makes not firing Flus "too early" questionable.

Sorry for your confusion. But yes it's essentially paid the day he's hired unless there's extenuating circumstances. It's sunk cost that the Bears are not getting back.

There's no getting out of the contract so the money is gone whether it's today or in 5 years.
99 percent coaches aren't fired for cause so the money is going to be paid. So there's no reason to worry about firing a coach now or 4 years into his deal because that money is getting paid whether he's the coach or not.

 

[ruprecht]

Whut again? Sweat's been battling a calf injury all year which affects burst. There's no evidence to suggest he's breaking down physically.

But you said "aging vets." Care to name any more than the ones I listed other than Sweat?

This is his shtick

 

[Myk]

Sorry for your confusion. But yes it's essentially paid the day he's hired unless there's extenuating circumstances. It's sunk cost that the Bears are not getting back.

There's no getting out of the contract so the money is gone whether it's today or in 5 years.
99 percent coaches aren't fired for cause so the money is going to be paid. So there's no reason to worry about firing a coach now or 4 years into his deal because that money is getting paid whether he's the coach or not.

When we're talking $5mill minimum per year it makes a big difference whether it's paid yearly, monthly or ahead of time. That's easily $250K. That hires about 7 Kreutzs.

Yes it's budgeted for but paying 2 or 3 HCs in the same time frame is not. Therefore any smart team would think very hard about hiring a bad coach (note the Bears are not a smart team) and especially think hard about firing a bad coach too early.

It pains me to say this because I'd like to blame the org but not getting rid of Flus last year is understandable if he got 5 years because of the rebuild.
What's not understandable is they didn't put any protection clauses in there for themselves because they were so in love with the thought of Lovie 2.0 instead of looking at who Flus was.

It's negotiation: OK, you want 5 years because of the rebuild, you need to hit X wins your 2nd year or you don't get a 5th year so that they wouldn't have to balk at firing him early if he really sucked.