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Why contract extension wasn't enough to protect Kliff Kingsbury | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

this was expected the only reason that I,didn't expect it I made this point,Sunday Night Football night in America,when we flagged the two jobs that,ultimately opened up yesterday because,every once in a while a blind squirrel,does chew on an acorn Cliff Kingsbury's,contract and I I kept hearing it,yesterday and everybody's caught up in,he's signed through 2027 he signed,through 2027 2027 is an option year but,it's still four years yes three four,five six four years that Michael Bidwell,is gonna have to pay this guy the net,between whatever he makes elsewhere and,what he would have made with the,Cardinals and there was a thought that,maybe Bidwell wouldn't do it well given,where the team currently is and he,thought about doing it last year instead,he did these contracts both for,Kingsbury and time and then signed Kyler,Murray and it's all been a mess and we,we heard what Bidwell had to say at the,top bottom line is he's holding everyone,accountable Steve Kime out Cliff,Kingsbury out he's gonna have to dig,deep to pay those guys and now Chris,what's he gonna have to do to get a good,coach yeah and a good team he's gonna,have to dig even deeper yeah yeah no I I,know Mike that was the big thing right I,think you and I we hit on it a lot over,the last few weeks we thought that there,would be a change made you didn't know,exactly what the guarantees were you,know and I think the thing that you know,I saw some of the stuff you were talking,about yesterday on TV too where you know,some people get uh you know mixed up or,don't quite understand just because you,have let's say a five-year contract for,20 million dollars just to make it a,round number that does not mean just,because you get fired after year one,right that you're gonna see the rest of,that money in full there's plenty of,coaches within the NFL where they're,making this money but if they get fired,it becomes lesser amount right Mike like,what hey I'm making 10 million a year,but if I got fired they're gonna have to,pay me a guarantee of six million a year,or five million a year right so that's,where we don't know the language of that,either and I would think that's where,the Cardinals protected themselves a,little bit here in this scenario in case,this scenario how happen they had to see,the writing on the wall we were talking,about it last offseason before the,extension and all that anyways just,about man the bad finishes by Cliff,Kingsbury how the team has looked you,know at the end of seasons and every,year he's coached there so I I don't,think we're shocked to see this happen,it's an offensive coach where the,offense was you know the the problem,with the football team and I I'm I,wasn't surprised to see Cliff Kingsbury,go yesterday,well as we've said time again it's a,college offensive that's right he was,tied to a system not the realities of,game planning and adjusting exactly,creating plays and coming up with new,wrinkles and thinking about the defense,you're going to face and trying to stay,a step ahead of them while they're,trying to crack the code on what you do,and shut it down because at the college,level it works because the great,offenses have Superior Talent right to,the defenses that they're facing and,they can come up to the line of,scrimmage and say Here's what we're,going to do go ahead and try to stop us,it's a different game at the NFL because,the talent is so compressed together and,as it relates to the contracts remember,when this all happened I just you know,it was the the pasta and meatballs just,kind of it's like there was a there was,a sense that things were going sideways,in Arizona right,and then all of a sudden all of a sudden,out of the blue common Kingsbury have,contract extensions through 2027 with no,further details announced or reported so,there was nothing for anyone to brag,about we don't know how much no that was,explaining right we don't know how much,of it's guaranteed we don't know how,much he's going to walk away with and,the other reality to it I don't know,that this is going to happen,but,NFL owners have the ultimate Hammer if,they want to use it,if they just want to fire you for cause,now look that can create issues when,you're trying to hire coaches in the,future but if they want,to say you're fired for cause because,you did X Y or Z that we may not know,about,where where does it get resolved not in,court,not in court it gets resolved by the guy,who's been hired by the owners right it,gets hot it gets resolved by Roger,Goodell they all sign off on that,provision in their contract that's,something that we're seeing Brian Flores,fight Jon Gruden fight the idea that,this secret rig Kangaroo Court you know,it's the off season when we start using,that term again but it's not going to be,used in a way that is unfair to the,coaches and that's the other Hammer so,for all we know for all we know Michael,Bidwell has negotiated or is negotiating,some sort of a resolution where these,guys take even less 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