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Consider 336 players have contracts that average at least $6 million annually, and 50 are at the $18 million Belichick level, according to Spotrac. There is a good case that it should be higher. Five years ago, the minimum salary was in the $3 million-a-year range, versus $5-6 million today. The entry price on NFL coaching salaries has jumped the last few years. Each coach earns at least $11 million, outside of John Harbaugh, who is due a raise after nine playoff trips his current $9 million-a-year Ravens contract expires after next season. The six longest-tenured NFL coaches are all Super Bowl winners-only Belichick has more than one-and have 61 playoff berths combined. Stability breeds success in the NFL and leads to bigger paychecks. If those three pieces get imbalanced, that is when things get unraveled.” “At the end of the day, you need to have alignment between the owner, general manager and the head coach. “Each individual coaching situation is uniquely different when it comes to the qualities you are looking for,” said Jed Hughes, head of Korn Ferry’s sports practice, which led the search for both head coaches in February’s Super Bowl, Andy Reid and Bruce Arians. Kraft, who paid a record $172 million for the Patriots in 1994, now owns an asset worth $5.35 billion that generates more than $200 million in annual cash flow. The Patriots drafted Brady three months later-days after the team unveiled plans for a new privately financed $325 million stadium-and the rest is history.īrady and Belichick reached nine Super Bowls together, including six wins. Media, fans and experts scoffed at Robert Kraft’s decision to bring in a coach who posted one winning season in five years in Cleveland and at the cost of a first-round draft pick to compensate his former employer, the Jets. The NFL leads the way with 14, followed by the NBA (seven), college football (three), and Kentucky’s John Calipari, in college basketball.īelichick was not an obvious hire in January 2000 for the Patriots.

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Sportico identified 25 current coaches who earn at least $8 million a year through conversations with power brokers in pro and college sports. On a deal worth an estimated $18 million a year, Belichick oversees the NFL’s second-ranked defense and is grooming a rookie quarterback poised to carry the Pats forward. It’s a bit of a redemption season for the 69-year-old coach, whose streak of 19 straight winning campaigns ended in 2020 after Tom Brady decamped for Tampa, and Belichick detractors sharpened their knives, dubbing the quarterback the key cog to the coach’s success.īut Belichick has proven in 2021 that he is worth every penny of the contract that makes him the highest-paid coach in American pro sports. The Patriots crushed the Browns 45-7 on Sunday for their fourth straight victory, the 250th regular-season win in New England for Bill Belichick.
