{"id":682115,"date":"2026-01-16T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682115\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:02:17","slug":"browns-nfl-head-coach-search-matt-lafleur-packers-contract-hang-up-could-open-another-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682115\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns NFL head coach search: Matt LaFleur, Packers contract hang up could open another door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think the bigger deal is, can they figure out a contract of fair value to keep him there? I think that\u2019s what this is about, them trying to negotiate a contract, seeing what they could come up with. If they get a deal done, it\u2019s a non-talking point and his future is secure there. If they can\u2019t figure out a contract that works for both sides, well then, you have to ask yourself, are they willing to let him go into the last year of his deal, which he would be, or what do you do about that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Very rarely do teams want coaches going into the last year of their deal. Which, I believe the priority will be to re-sign to an extension this offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think the bigger deal is, can they figure out a contract of fair value to keep him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,91914,89287,2337,7,781,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-682115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-analysis","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-general","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115905622665618702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}