So far, the terms of these three extensions haven\u2019t leaked, other than the framing of them as \u201cmulti-year\u201d deals. Packers president and CEO Ed Policy didn\u2019t disclose details, either in the team\u2019s official release.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what Policy had to say about the decision, on the Packers\u2019 website:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to extend our commitment to Brian, Matt and Russ as the leaders of our football operations. Their steadfast dedication, passion and collaboration have remained constant in our drive to compete at the highest level,\u201d said Packers President and CEO Ed Policy. \u201cWhile we are all disappointed with the way this season ended, we remain aligned in purpose and have spent considerable time over the past weeks collaborating on a path forward. I am exceedingly confident we have the right people to achieve our goal. The entire Packers organization looks forward to supporting every effort to bring our community and fans another championship that they very much deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
If I were to guess, LaFleur\u2019s per-year money comes above Chicago\u2019s Ben Johnson ($13 million per year), because it would be more difficult to recruit coaches to Athletes First (LaFleur\u2019s agency) if the coach with the second-best record all-time over his first seven years of his NFL tenure couldn\u2019t come ahead of Johnson, who signed his deal before ever being a head coach of a team. I also assume that LaFleur is under contract through at least 2029, since years (and the guaranteed money that comes with those years) seemed to be a touchy subject in contract talks<\/a>. Whether that means LaFleur is on his remaining 2026 season from his previous deal, plus three years of an extension, or they tore the deal up and just gave him a completely new four-year (or more) deal is unknown.<\/p>\n Fair market value for LaFleur, considering reporters said he would have been head-to-head with John Harbaugh as the potential number one coaching candidate on the market in 2026 had he been released, would probably be in the $20 million per year over five years range, which is what Harbaugh received from the New York Giants. Again, the years matter because salaries are generally fully guaranteed at the NFL level, so the remaining total left on a coach\u2019s contract is his buyout cost.<\/p>\n Usually, the Packers have tried to keep their head coaches and general managers on similar timelines, from a contract perspective. Because of that, I assume that LaFleur, Gutekunst and Ball will all have their contracts expire in the same offseason, but that is another I Think, not an I Know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far, the terms of these three extensions haven\u2019t leaked, other than the framing of them as \u201cmulti-year\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,97481,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-721129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115994689894738413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721129","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=721129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}