Browns have paid 6 coaches $50 mil not to work

[Maynard]

Coach	Yrs. after fired	Sum owed
Chris Palmer	3 years	        $3 million
Butch Davis	3 years	        $12 million
Romeo Crennel	3 years	        $10 million
Eric Mangini	2 years	        $7.8 million
Pat Shurmur	2 years left	$5.6 million
Rob Chudzinski	3 years left	$10.5 million

 

[1ke]

What do I need to be on that list? Fuuuk

 

[Aso]

Unbelievable. They definitely should've kept Chud and his all star staff on board for at least another year.

 

[EmpireWF]

Only if they had non-shitty players, they wouldn't have to fire all these guys.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Also, they have fired the last four coaches in the AFC North. The last one to actually be fired who was not a Browns coach was Brian Billick. Cowher stepped away, and Marvin Lewis has been there for a decade. So to make that even worse, there have been only two coaching changes in the AFC North since 2003 that were not Cleveland firings, which number five during that time.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Not just the Browns, but Haslam has paid $50 million for coaches and executives to not work for him personally. Now he's bringing in an all-new coaching staff in all likelihood. Haslam makes Snyder and Jones look good right now.

When the Browns made the decision to fire coach Rob Chudzinski last week, and effectively let all of his staff go as well, owner Jimmy Haslam was making yet another very expensive decision. A year prior Haslam decided to part with team president Mike Holmgren, general manager Tom Heckert, coach Pat Shurmur and their staffs as well, a move that several sources have estimated at having cost him roughly $30-million in all.

Firing Chudzinski, and letting go of high-priced coordinators Norv Turner and likely Ray Horton, will likely cost another $20 million, sources said, and then Haslam is obviously going to have to now pay an entire new coaching staff that is coming on board. Almost all these contracts include “offsets,” which means the amount Haslam would owe his former employees is mitigated by what their new employers pay them, but even factoring in the fact that Chudzinski, Turner and others will find work as NFL assistants, the sources agreed that ultimately the moves Haslam will make between the end of the 2012 season -- when he let go of the Holmgren regime -- through the hiring of this new staff will amount to a $50 million commitment.

Even by NFL standards, that's a fairly staggering number. While many have wondered whether the ongoing federal investigation into Haslam's company, Pilot Flying J, would impact his ability to fully fund his team, Haslam's actions if anything have indicated otherwise.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer...-expected-to-cost-haslam-upward-of-50-million