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The Chin is coming to Cleveland!


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Browns G.M. Phil Savage couldn’t have picked a more inopportune time to send a profane e-mail message to a fan who had been heckling him. With the Browns reportedly talking to Bill Cowher and with Cowher virtually certain to want full control over the team’s football operations, Savage would almost certainly get the shoe.

 

The problem is that Savage received an extension after last season’s resurgence, and he’s now signed through 2012. If, as some believe, he’s making $3 million per year, a buyout would cost owner Randy Lerner $12 million.

 

But maybe it wouldn’t. Though we haven’t seen the specific language of Savage’s contract, typing “f@#* you” to a fan likely would permit the Browns to fire Savage “for cause,” thereby extinguishing any responsibility to him for ongoing payments.

 

Savage would have the ability to file a grievance with the league office, but would he? Regarded as mild-mannered (at all times except when sending the e-mail in question), Savage might not want to fight the issue.

 

Another possibility would be for Lerner to offer Savage $3 million to walk away, and for Savage to accept it.

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Does Cowher even want to coach again? He seems pretty happy right now. I'm not saying he doesn't just asking the question.

And it's a good question. Cowher doesn't strike me as a man who is in need of money so why would he want to potentially destroy a legacy that he already has in place?

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Does Cowher even want to coach again? He seems pretty happy right now. I'm not saying he doesn't just asking the question.

 

He left that door wide open when he left. He said he wouldn't coach again until his youngest daughter graduated high school. She graduates in the class of 2009. Cowher is very young and I fully expect him to be coaching again next year or the year after. I said from the beginning that as painful as it would be, Cleveland was one of the places I thought he might end up. He played there, so, he has a tie to the organization.

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