"Less than a month ago, Larry Kennan, the director of the NFL Coaches Association, praised the Jets for being one of the NFL teams "trying to do the right thing" for their coaches in the event of a lockout. So imagine his surprise when the Jets announced they were cutting the salaries of their coaches, along with those of everyone else in their football operation, by 25% before the lockout was even 24 hours old. "I was surprised by that," Kennan told the Daily News Wednesday. "They've been one of the teams that has done right by coaches over the last several years." That changed, though, when the Jets announced the salary cuts on Saturday. It also changed when, according to Kennan, they "very, very recently" became the 13th NFL team to opt out of the league's pension plan for assistant coaches. Not that the Jets are alone in their treatment of their coaching staff. According to Kennan, about a dozen teams have either already cut coaches' salaries 25-50% or are likely to do so within the month. If the lockout lasts 90 days, he said, almost all NFL coaches - even head coaches - will see their salaries cut." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...on_plan_surprise_director_of_nfl_coaches.html
