This is my first full off season cycle, and i'm in 67. I can not match the salaries offered by other teams as their cap for each level is substantially higher. This should be remedied as its the furthest thing from fair. How about a max salary for coaches at all levels, so then at least there's a chance?

Actually, coaching salaries do not come from the same pool as your player salaries - and are equal across all teams. There is no dead cap with coach salaries, there is no negative financial repercussion to you replacing a coach. Everyone has an equal cash flow for coaches, and the only restriction is that your head coach makes more than your coordinators who make more than your position coaches.

Sometimes you'll have an overpaid position coach or coordinator that makes it difficult to sign a full coaching staff, if this happens you will need to replace the overpaid coach.

Here's what I'm talking about... I offered every penny I was allowed to offer, and they accepted the other teams offer that was over 24 million more than I was allowed. How can that be possible?

2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Signed contract with Jacksonville ($71,662,212, 6 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from Pittsburgh ($7,500,000, 3 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from Green Bay ($3,000,000, 3 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from Tampa Bay ($47,623,332, 6 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from New York ($10,000,000, 4 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from Cleveland ($900,000, 3 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from Buffalo ($20,505,528, 6 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from Seattle ($6,424,352, 4 yrs)
2019 2019 Free Agency 3
Travis Patterson
Rejected contract offer from Baltimore ($833,490, 6 yrs)

A lot of teams pay very little for position coaches which gives them a lot more money to pay for coordinators and head coaches, but also leaves your position coaches open for being poached by another team to become a coordinator or head coach. Most likely your position coaches are using more of your cash flow than these other teams.

Thanks for your guidance, it's still at lot to process at times.

Okay I went and looked that the teams coaching salaries just for giggles...

Head Coach
Jon Fife
ViewContract
DETAILS RATINGS HISTORY CONTRACT
Year Salary
2019 $2,778,300
2020 $2,917,215
2021 $3,063,076
2022 $3,216,230
2023 $3,377,042


Coach mentioned previously - hired as a position coach
Travis Patterson
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DETAILS RATINGS HISTORY CONTRACT
Year Salary
2019 $11,943,702
2020 $12,540,887
2021 $13,167,931
2022 $13,826,328
2023 $14,517,644
2024 $15,243,526

That's an Ai team.

They can do whatever they want.

Just kidding.

Hm, I'll have to look and see if the AI is not correctly following the coach salary rules.