NFL homeowners just lately spent virtually a billion {dollars} on fired coaches and execs

If Elon Musk is the icing on the cake named “billionaires aren’t geniuses,” then NFL homeowners are the batter.

In response to a latest report, the league just lately notified homeowners that over the past 5 years they’ve spent a whopping $800 million on coaches and front-office executives that don’t even work for them anymore.

I believed we have been headed in direction of a recession — guess not.

The report goes on to inform us that the league even made spreadsheets that confirmed how unhealthy the decision-making has been, displaying the absurd quantities of cash which have been made by homeowners firing individuals too quickly, or hiring the improper ones. Between the Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts, and Tennessee Titans, a minimal of $69 million and 12 years of remaining contracts have been flushed down the bathroom. The New York Soccer Giants are presently paying three completely different teaching staffs in 2022. And since 2021, seven head coaches have been fired throughout or after the season.

Do the names of those execs and coaches look acquainted?

Jeff Saturday. Josh McDaniels. Nathaniel Hackett. Eric Bieniemy. Byron Leftwich. Leslie Frazier. Matt Rhule. Frank Reich. Jon Gruden. Mike Mayock.

Should you’re questioning what all of them have in frequent, it’s that they have been both employed, fired, or ought to have been employed — however nonetheless aren’t — just lately all attributable to a dumb choice that an proprietor signed off on. And with Black Sunday only some weeks away, one other group of head and interim coaches will probably be relieved of their duties because the NFL averages virtually seven head-coaching modifications per 12 months.

This isn’t a league that values job safety.

Humorous sufficient, the report that was made for the homeowners appears like simply one other instance of what Brian Flores’ legal professionals will use as ammunition. As a result of when three Black coaches (Flores, Ray Horton, and Steve Wilks) filed a class-action lawsuit in opposition to the league for its alleged racist hiring practices, proof that the homeowners would somewhat waste tens of millions on unhealthy white coaches and execs as a substitute of hiring Black ones simply strengthens your case. Since 2000, solely 26 Black males — sans Mike McDaniel — have been employed as head coaches on this league.

In October, it was reported that the lawsuit was “on ice” because the choose was deciding if the case ought to participate in open courtroom the place the NFL’s soiled laundry could be aired out, or in arbitration the place NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell could be the arbitrator — which appears sketchy and biased.

However, it doesn’t matter what comes of it, the truth that we’re at this second with this new info that the league supplied simply additional proves that wealth doesn’t equate to knowledge.