about Texans Broncos Cardinals
Panthers and he said yesterday on Colin coward, show
the Saints. Want a mid to late first round pick. If he's hired
in this cycle. I think, Payton believes that with each passing
year, the Saints should want less and less,
but I don't think he wants to pass on another year because
again, you're not going to replace the 20 million that
that money is never coming back.
And I that that's a very real concern if I sit out. Our year,
I make whatever Fox pays. I don't know, two million. I'm
just guessing.
That's a lot less than 20 million. That's an order of
magnitude as they call it at the higher institutions of
learning you. That's a zero that you take off that number.
That's a lot to walk away from.
If you're Sean Payton if you know you can get 20 or more now.
Yeah. Yeah I mean
you know again
you know money I'm sure is part of the situation I'm sure he's
already got a boatload of it. He was one of those guys that
I think was
You know, I want more.
I'm not, I'm not judging, I get it, I get it.
You know, by all due accounts it he seems like he was a guy
that was around 15, maybe north of that. Anyways, of normal and
saying, it's right North, right? So but but I think
the the you know,
with all that being said and you've alluded to this over
the last few weeks first off. I mean he's one of these guys,
you classify, he's a, he's a psycho, he's a psycho in a good
way.
He can't what sitting in the studio. Picking games. What?
He's probably picking his hair out of his head, because he
wants to be out there coaching. He's, that's who he
is. He's a leader of men. He's the general and then he's
a psycho who likes to get in the lab and come up with Crazy Game
plans and plays to screw a team over
as I just feel like that's, he's addicted to that.
Adrenaline and the power, and, and the creativity in
the adrenaline of a Sunday and all that to where that's where
I feel like he's just
It's going to be chomping at the bit to and of course he's
got a lot of good years and front of them to he's in
the prime of his coaching career right now.
So I mean I just yeah it feels inevitable
and I'm with you it's going to be back. It's just where's it
going to happen and
I think that's a small price to pay as far as a late to Mid
first-round pick for a guy like Sean Payton.
Yeah. Absolutely. When you think of what a coach means to
a team, what a good coach means and I know it all comes down to
players and the players are the ones who go out and do it and
is Dick Vermeil said and his Hall of
Fame induction speech back in August, which doesn't seem all
that long ago but was he said I became a much smarter coach
once I had Marshall Faulk mean that is a big part of it but
great coaches. Do the things we talked about earlier.
Definitely spending
all that time. Obsessing over everything. Staying ahead of
the The competition. Staying ahead of yourself, getting
ready for every game because it all comes down to
a play here, a play there, a moment here, a moment there, and
if
quarterbacks middle of the pack are going to be getting 30, 35
million a year. Now, coaches should be getting more than
that. A good coach means more than an average Quarterback
does to Any Given Team without question. And
there's no salary cap on coaches. I think there is collusion
and I think this clamoring for Sean Payton regardless of
He ends up
and whether he ends up with Tom Brady or not. Just the mere
fact that there's this contest to go, get Sean, Payton and
that someone's going to give up value and pay a lot of money to
Peyton. That's kind of a middle finger
to the powers that be because I think they'd like coaches to
have less influence than maybe they should, then maybe they
do, maybe they will once, Peyton emerges from this thing,
maybe the highest paid coach or close to it. In all the NFL,
this is something we've talked about in the past. We never
really know exactly what a coach is making because these
owners Will funnel money to them, through other
business, interests,
to kind of keep down the official number. That's part of
the collusion. If it's happening allegedly or
otherwise
do the official numbers 15, but he's making another seven,
eight, nine ten,
you know, elsewhere.
So there are there are multiple coaches in north of 20. They
just don't talk about it very much and
this is the first time we're kind of having this Open Candid
conversation about what a coach is going to get in that
magnitude in that ballpark, it I think Will be north of 20. We
may never know the actual number Chris, but I think Sean
Payton's going to come back and he's going to be making a ton
of money
and it's going to cause other great coaches to make a ton of
money to as they should for what they put in for their
expertise, for their experience, for their skill.
And for the sheer raw effort that is put in to the detriment
of the
rest of their lives, their health, their relationships,
they deserve every penny.
Yeah, I don't disagree with that. It's a brutal job. It's
intense. It's got incredible. Scrutinies surrounded by it.
Takes you away. Away from your family. It says pressure-packed
is it guess is as intense as it gets and
it mean there's no sport in the world. That coaching is more
important for for football
man. Nah, nah. Nah,
and it just sits, that's the great thing about football.
Well, you see a team like the Giants the team hasn't changed
around. All that much, look at what a good coach came in and
did to them. All right. Oh my gosh, holy cow, can they go in
and upset Philadelphia?
And when we're starting the year going there, and can they
win four games? But a coach does things the right way,
plays it the right way. Schemes the right way, it's changing
people's lives.
Let alone like, how could they not make more money? How could
they not? How did the guy in the booth? Who just talking
about the game, make more money than the damn guy? That's
producing the damn game and all the great plays in
the entertainment and doing all the hard work to really make it
good. Anyways, it just doesn't make any sense, right? So
that's where yes, I would think Belichick
the Andy Reid's, the Pete.
Arrows of the world.
They're all I would think flirting
in that 20 million range
and I got no problem with that at all. You're right. There's
a lot of really below average quarterbacks making more money
than that and that doesn't seem right.
An interesting study to do. If anybody ever had access to
the real numbers in? The problem is we don't and we won't you track
the growth of players salary and total revenue for the NFL
over the last 50 years. And then you get the detailed
coaching
salaries and track them and their growth, you would see
the disparity. Yeah, I have successfully held coaching pay
down even in the absence of a salary cap, it's impressive.
When you consider it.
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