NFL owners recently spent almost a billion dollars on fired coaches and execs

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

According to a current report, the league recently notified owners 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 had been headed in the 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 owners firing individuals too quickly, or hiring the flawed ones. Between the Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts, and Tennessee Titans, a minimal of $69 million and 12 years of remaining contracts had been flushed down the bathroom. The New York Football Giants are at the moment paying three totally 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.

If you’re questioning what all of them have in widespread, it’s that they had been both employed, fired, or ought to have been employed — however nonetheless aren’t — recently all as a result of a dumb determination that an proprietor signed off on. And with Black Sunday solely a few weeks away, one other group of head and interim coaches shall be relieved of their duties because the NFL averages almost seven head-coaching modifications per 12 months.

This just isn’t a league that values job safety.

Funny sufficient, the report that was made for the owners appears like simply one other instance of what Brian Flores’ attorneys will use as ammunition. Because when three Black coaches (Flores, Ray Horton, and Steve Wilks) filed a class-action lawsuit towards the league for its alleged racist hiring practices, proof that the owners would quite waste thousands and thousands 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 decide was deciding if the case ought to participate in open court docket 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.

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