Dallas

Financial concerns may be at work in Dallas, which seemingly had a coach-in-waiting situation. But now Jerry Jones seems to be telling Jason Garrett to go get a head coaching job after paying him a reported $3 million dollars a year to keep him in Dallas last year. Jones is opening the most expensive stadium any team has ever tried to open without a second tenant, in all of human history. He has had difficulty selling personal seat licenses and the bottom has fallen out of the naming rights market. Essentially, Jones has a billion dollar mortgage and about $70 million dollars in annual debt service, and a few millions saved here and there count. This may explain Jones uncharacteristic patience this off-season, as buying out Wade Phillips and Garrett and replacing them would easily cost more than $10 million dollars. While having Garrett who makes $3 million move on and replacing him with a more moderately priced coordinator, at a fair $750k, saves Jones $2.25 million dollars. Not an insignificant amount.