Mike Shanahan will be paid $7 million not to coach this season. Another clause: He can't criticize the Broncos.
For $7 mil, I'd keep my mouth shut too.
Well … maybe for $9.352 mil.
Notice the difference in the cultures of the NFL and other sports? In the NFL, they pay people to keep quiet. In the NBA, guys criticize their own team while they are working for said team. NBA folks are not afraid of criticism. I don't know what NFL types are.
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Well, yeah…. Seven million dollars.
That and the fact that he'd be coaching in Cleveland. Yikes!
Please, that assertion is baloney and you know it, Pat. Non-disparagement clauses are regularly part of settlements or severance/termination agreements. It has absolutely nothing to do with the NFL's supposedly totalitarian culture, it's just the nature of the agreement. You certainly know this, so why do you even claim otherwise? This isn't sports radio. If Mike Brown or Danny Ferry (one can only hope and pray) had been kicked to the curb, an almost identical clause would have found its way into the agreement.