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And Now Back to our Regularly Scheduled Program, or Advise for BB
By TOM
February 12th, 2010
So what does all this talk about the Kraft's PP have to do with anything? It has to do with everything. Finances affect everything. Why are there no Coordinators? There are multiple reasons, obviously. BB is a genius, and geniuses don’t make decisions like this without multiple reasons. There are multiple reasons not to name them, like: they aren’t quite ready, he wants to keep them under wraps so he can use them for another year, because he doesn’t want to loss another Coordinator to a Head Coaching job for a few more years, he does want to piss off Pepper Johnson or Matt Patricia, and of course he wants to save the organization a few million.
My favorite reason is that the NFL decreed that Coordinators must give weekly press conferences. Now there are no Coordinators to give weekly press conferences. So again there is “a single voice coming out of Foxboro”. Come on Patsfans, you gotta love that!
I was watching a sports show Sunday night and the guest was Mike Reiss. Mike is a nice guy, but just as the PFW in Progress boys are the shills for the Krafts, Reiss is the shill for BB. Now I’m not saying that as some kind of insult, quite the contrary. I’m a self professed Patriot’s shill. I am a fan of PFW and Reiss because they right positive things. Too much sport reporting now-a-days has mutated into a Bizarro world, page 6, jealous celebrity writing. The negative story overwhelms everything now in the sports world.
Reiss is the best
So how much do Coordinators make? “According
to an NFL source, coordinator salaries range from $450,000 to $3
million. The average NFL defensive coordinator makes about $850,000 with
offensive coordinators at about $800,000.” Hell, even college Coordinators
make more than the Pat’s officially unofficial Coordinators.
I heard one
Okay, I’ll even accept your semantic argument and
still dismantle you (well, that sounded a little arrogant;-). It is a matter
of semantics. A Coordinators job in the NFL is not just a title,
it’s a position. It is a very
important, very prestigious, and highly coveted position.
There are only 32 HC titles of the
NFL in the entire world (but since HC is a title,
so it doesn’t really matter), and only 64 Coordinator positions (96 if you
include Special Teams coach). These men spend their lives trying to achieve
their dream of become HC of any NFL-T. Being named HC of any NFL-T, is like
being given the title of President
In Charge Of Operations of a fortune 500 company. Does that title matter? Being given the position
of Coordinator in the NFL, is like being given the position of vice-president of operations in a fortune 500 company,
and one step away from realize your dream of becoming president. It matters.
It matters more to these man than anything except family.
The truth is the Patriot’s organization will save multi-millions of dollars over the next two years by not naming Coordinators. Remember 2011 will be locked out. You’ll have to pardon me if I’m not optimistic about the CBA negotiations. If you haven’t seen one of these professional sports negotiations before, you are in for a show of true ugliness. Especially with all the ranker starting already. This CBA will not be easy, especially when you consider the stance the Owners are taking about the players getting too much money already. I believe it is going to be ugly, even uglier than the scab season.
The Pats are Guar-oon-teed to save well over a million dollars this season alone. If you add another year of salaries, the salaries for their Coordinators in 2011, they are kind-ad sort-ah Guar-oon-teed to save over three million dollars over the next two years. I am basing this on the belief that players will not be paid in a lock out, but coaches, GMs, and front office personal usually are still paid. However, I cannot say for certain, whether they will be paid or not.
Bill, I know you come to my website. I have heard you quote me in one of your press conferences (thank you for that by the way, is was a pathetically giddily geek moment for me). Now I am going to repay the favor. Just give these men their positions. Do you remember when you were first given the meaningless title of DC for the NYG? It was not meaningless to you. It was one of the greatest days of your life (excluding family stuff of course). You spent what, 20-30 years working your ass off towards achieving that amazing goal, and now you’re saying the titles of DC and OC of the NEP are meaningless? That is simply not true, and you of all people know that. You so desperately wanted to be Head Coach of the New England Patriots that you once wrote on a napkin, "I resign as HC of the NYJ", and allowed yourself to be ridiculed by the New York Media. Now, I get why you did it. It was such a betrayal by Parcells, that you had no choice. Remember how all that felt?
Bill, I also want to tell you that it makes you look a
little crazy from the outside when you do something like this. You know you
have a tendency to get a stressed out and a little crazy when you don’t
delegate enough, remember Cleveland? I know it’s not easy for you to
delegate. You have one of the best football minds in
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