Jay Gruden hired as head coach of the Redskins

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Originally Posted by Lotus

Again, JLC is not affecting my argument.

Crucial here is not the number of contract years but the number of guaranteed years.

And I'm willing to grant that this individual issue is not a big deal. But having seen us fail to reinvent the wheel again and again, every attempt to be "different" (like having a GM whose specialty is not talent evaluation and giving an unusual contract to our new HC) makes me very leery.

And I'm left with the question: why not just do things the normal way?

but, and I tried to show it better in the one post, is that I don't think it is an unusual contract when you look at the last two years of new coach contracts. Kelly got 6.5M for 5 years guaranteed(5/32.5). Bruce Arians, a highly sought coordinator got a 4yr guarantee last year. Jim Harbaugh signed a 5yr/25mil deal in 2011.

I think, best as I can tell, the contract years are the guaranteed years. Only one was listed with an option year and that was Lovie, which brought him to 5 years but only 4 guaranteed.

I know it's frustrating, but I think the organization is trying to grind it's way to the standard model.