CHILLY FIRED - Packers are COACH KILLERS!

[sheepshead]

Dats a Beautiful Ting.

[Bretsky]

Some genius predicted this firing and hiring yesterday in the game day thread. Favre's crappy play helped lead to the firing but his superior play last year helped Chilly get several million dollars as well on an extension

[Scott Campbell]

And his boneheaded play to Tracy Porter ended their season. In fact that might have been the turning point that led to Chili's firing.

[Bretsky]

I'd take the extension and they can fire me any day they want

[3irty1]

Anyone know how much they had to pay Childress to leave? Had to be like 9 million or so. That is not a trivial amount of money. Not good for a team that is in the very bottom of revenues.

[Fritz]

Unlike the players, fans can take an extra couple days to savor the victories...and the firings of coaches from beloved teams like the Vikings and Cowboys.

Enjoy!

[Cheesehead Craig]

Anyone know how much they had to pay Childress to leave? Had to be like 9 million or so. That is not a trivial amount of money. Not good for a team that is in the very bottom of revenues.

I heard it was 6.6M

[MichiganPackerFan]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...d-the-vikings/

The new coach has spoken. Berts gonna start and the turnovers are gonna come down. We're gonna get it going as a football team.


Sounds just like the old coach.

Meet the new coach, same as the old coach.

I do hope the Lions pass them in the standings!

[gbpackfan]

God it would be sweet for the Queens to finish in the NFC North basement.

[Scott Campbell]

God it would be sweet for the Queens to finish in the NFC North basement.

To me it would be sweeter to see them drafting outside of the top 10. Their year is over already. The degree of failure is irrelevant to me.

[3irty1]

I heard it was 6.6M

The Packers public books state that profit from operations was 9.8 million last year.

The Vikings books aren't public but the following quote from Jerry Jones discussing the revenue sharing that exists under the current CBA where revenues of the top 10 teams are shared with the bottom 10.

"Right now, we are subsidizing this market," Jones said of NFL owners. "It's unthinkable to think that you've got the market you got here - 3 1/2 million people - and have teams like Kansas City and Green Bay subsidizing the market. That will stop. "

If we are in the top 10 in revenue and the Vikings are in the bottom 10, and our profits were 9.8M last year... how can a team like the Vikings afford to piss away 6.6M on a newly extended coach? Where's Patler?

[Packgator]

Vikings season is a colossal failure. Even if they go 5-1 (the rest of the way) with Favre at QB......the season will remain a colossal failure. They only way for them to salvage something would be to go 5-1 or 4-2 (the rest of the way) with a QB that will be there next year. And it appears they are not willing to try that.

[Fritz]

Jerry's pulling out the old tricks - sucking up to the KC's and GB's of the world by mentioning that they are subsidizing teams like the Viqueens.

Jerry, you just don't want to subsidize those teams.

I imagine he'd be fine with a baseball-like system in which a few huge market teams dominate most of the time, and the smaller teams scramble to talent that they either cannot find (Pittsburgh) or cannot afford to keep (Pittsburgh, Minnesota).

Wouldn't that suck - have the small market teams do all the hard work of scouting and drafting the talent, developing it, then having to trade it away to the New Yorks, New Englands, and Dallases of the world?

[superfan]

how can a team like the Vikings afford to piss away 6.6M on a newly extended coach?

Profits from all those new Moss 84 jerseys they sold this year.

[Patler]

The Packers public books state that profit from operations was 9.8 million last year.

The Vikings books aren't public but the following quote from Jerry Jones discussing the revenue sharing that exists under the current CBA where revenues of the top 10 teams are shared with the bottom 10.



If we are in the top 10 in revenue and the Vikings are in the bottom 10, and our profits were 9.8M last year... how can a team like the Vikings afford to piss away 6.6M on a newly extended coach? Where's Patler?

Could be lots of things, the most simple being that their owner is willing to operate at a loss, for whatever reason, for a given period.