You're David Tepper, how do you structure a deal/offer to get Ben Johnson's attention?

[TheBigKat]

Ben Johnson will have WAY better options this off-season:

Bears with 2 first round picks in the top 5, DJ Moore, familiar with the division, cap space, tradeable assets in Fields, an improving defense

Chargers - Top 10 QB, top 10 RB that can catch out of the backfield, top safety, great pair of DEs, top 15 WR. He can turn them from pretenders to contenders OVERNIGHT

 

With that said, any of these franchises will fork out money, so if you're Tepper and have a lifeless team with poor draft capital and no franchise players what's your pitch

 

Money: He has LOTS of it and has not been shy to flex that wallet, current highest paid coach is Bill B at $20 million a year

Commitment: he needs to know he won't be a one and done head coach, that to overhaul this is gonna take 3 years minimum

Control: he needs to know you won't be meddling with every decision or passing post it notes from your tecmo bowl evaluation

 

My offer is:

7 years, $210 million with Ben to pick his GM and it's only Ben and the GM who have final personnel matters

 

You have shown commitment financially by the annual rate and length of the contract, you've also shown you won't meddle in personnel or pick another flunk GM

[Newtcase]

ChatGPT says....

On a very real note I think stuffing a Lambo with cash would be a fantastic visual motivator.

Edited November 29, 2023 by Newtcase

[CanMan11]

Ben Johnson doesn't want to work w/ Mini Man I'm sure

[TheBigKat]

1 minute ago, CanMan11 said:

Ben Johnson doesn't want to work w/ Mini Man I'm sure

when someone guarantees you $210 million for your signature, you take a hard evaluation of your life and what's important and you sign your name on that line

[Waldo]

He looks to want to win and build something over just money. Try seeing what GM he would work with and whatelse it would take to make it work. I'm not huge on a HC picking a GM, I would rather see the opposite (I don't want to see anything else from SF).

Tepper isn't getting rid of HIS GM and he isn't becoming more 'hands off' either. Expect a lot less then a Ben Johnson.

[Knaakedup]

I think this is a reasonable offer. He HAS to agree to be hands off though, or it all falls apart.

Be involved like a parent with their child's school project - watch and support them from afar, but let them do it on their own.

[cookinbrak]

Build a time machine and go back a year.

[LinvilleGorge]

$10M bonus for every weekly one on one meddle meeting with Tepper he has to sit through.

$20M bonus for every play call suggestion from Tepper.

$1B bonus for every forced draft pick.

Tepper's entire net worth for forcing the trade up and drafting of a noodle armed sub-6' QB at #1 overall.

[uncfan888]

Johnson said no last year and the situation is so much worse now. He isn't coming here for any amount of money

[onmyown]

23 minutes ago, TheBigKat said:

Ben Johnson will have WAY better options this off-season:

Bears with 2 first round picks in the top 5, DJ Moore, familiar with the division, cap space, tradeable assets in Fields, an improving defense

Chargers - Top 10 QB, top 10 RB that can catch out of the backfield, top safety, great pair of DEs, top 15 WR. He can turn them from pretenders to contenders OVERNIGHT

 

With that said, any of these franchises will fork out money, so if you're Tepper and have a lifeless team with poor draft capital and no franchise players what's your pitch

 

Money: He has LOTS of it and has not been shy to flex that wallet, current highest paid coach is Bill B at $20 million a year

Commitment: he needs to know he won't be a one and done head coach, that to overhaul this is gonna take 3 years minimum

Control: he needs to know you won't be meddling with every decision or passing post it notes from your tecmo bowl evaluation

 

My offer is:

7 years, $210 million with Ben to pick his GM and it's only Ben and the GM who have final personnel matters

 

You have shown commitment financially by the annual rate and length of the contract, you've also shown you won't meddle in personnel or pick another flunk GM

normally you don’t have coaches pick the GM it’s a backwards dynamic, weird, and doesn’t work…really only done with all star HCs but since the alternative is numnuts, I guess we have no choice 

even if I had no clue how or who to pick a GM, I’d demand dumbass Tepper get rid of Fit and let me pick names out of a hat

[hepcat]

If Ben Johnson didn’t want to work here last year, why would he want to work here this year with less resources and a worse roster?

[Johnstonny]

21 minutes ago, TheBigKat said:

when someone guarantees you $210 million for your signature, you take a hard evaluation of your life and what's important and you sign your name on that line

Hes not remotely close to that money....but dipper likes to try and play money ball.

[TheBigKat]

8 minutes ago, Johnstonny said:

Hes not remotely close to that money....but dipper likes to try and play money ball.

Bears and Chargers would offer him a 10-15is a year contract for 4 years

If you wanted his attention here to deal with and clean up the mess, it's going to take a massive overpayment

[UNCrules2187]

Think he'll have to offer something like a 6-year, $60m fully guaranteed deal with no offsets.

$30m/year is ridiculous lmao. The highest paid coaches make something like $12-15m/year and that includes multi-time SB winning HCs. 

Edited November 29, 2023 by UNCrules2187