IMO: Length of contract will determine who gets Chip Kelly

[Skooby]

There is no perfect coaching opportunity, they all have issues as well as strengths. The Bills coaching staff was the weakest of the available teams, the Bills holding enough talent on both sides of the ball to be rebuilt.


IMO: The length of the contract is going what's going to sway Chip Kelly, not just the amount. He's leaving the relatively cozy confines of college for the big leagues, the maximum amount of time he's secured is going to help determine where he goes. Let's offer him a 8 year contract with great money. There's no cap against us on it & if something's wrong with him, we can workout a nice exit package.


Go Bills!!

[HAMMER]

This is laughable, 8 years? Never happen.

[Slim]

8 years could be a pretty deep grave.

[justasportsfan]

skoobs!!!

[SquishDaFish]

Skoobs this couldnt of just been posted in the Chip Kelly interview thread LMAO

[trapezeus]

8 years with not NFL experience is absurd. I would think 3 and an option at a high premium would be ideal.

the sell is control and that players you want will come here. that there isn't a "hey play this guy, we paid for him and never use him (aka rob johnson)" or "i don't know, that seems expensive for a LB in his early thirties, let's get one in the draft (Fletch)".

i think it's a delicate balance to promising a guy everything he wants but also giving him the overall vision that money doesn't cure everything and that having an all star roster isn't automatically the key. so spend whatever you want, but spend it wisely..if in two years we have a bloated salary cap but little performance to show for it, that isn't ideal.

russ has to have a vision of how he wants this team to operate and he needs a coach that buys into that vision and accepts that there are going to be challenges and wrinkles along the way but that solutions will be found.

[DynaPaul]

5 years would be the very top. 8 years is just insane.

[Raptor]

Yea disagree on all accounts

How much control he has will determine it and Im willing to bet the Browns will meet those demands as the Eagles and Bills have been burned on it before

[YardRat]

If he doesn't surround himself with NFL experience he'll be back in college before the third year of any contract he signs begins.