NFL owners making bad choices

By Alex Guzman  |   Tuesday, April 12, 2005  |  Comments( 0 )

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It is shameful to read that the owners owe money to incompetent coaches who are no longer a part of their team. Why do they guarantee any contracts at all?

This practice is especially shameful since most players leaguewide do not receive the same treatment and they're the ones busting their asses and suffering damage to their bodies.

The Cleveland Browns still owe Butch Davis $12 million dollars, and the Miami Dolphins chose to pay the rest of Dave Wannstedt's contract through 2006. However, the most egregious case of stupid contracts goes to the San Francisco 49ers when they hired Dennis Erickson.

The moment the Niners brought Erickson on board, I knew he was bound to sink the team into mediocrity. He actually did worse. Somehow, the front office felt it was a good idea to guarantee the contract of a man who had failed miserably in his previous NFL stint with the Seattle Seahawks. The 49ers are on the hook to their former coach to the tune of $7 million dollars.

You would think team owners got to their position through shrewdness and good business instincts. Some owners hardly exhibit these traits sometimes when they approve the hiring of mediocre coaches to guaranteed contracts. Hopefully, teams will start evaluating coaches much like they evaluate players prior to signing them to non-guaranteed contracts.
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