"The 59-day period of Jack Del Rio's unemployment gave him plenty of time to consider his options, and many were quite attractive.

After being fired from his last job — head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars — with a year remaining on his contract, Del Rio could have been paid a whole year not to work.

He could have remained in temperate north Florida, biding his time on the golf course in the spring and watching his son, Luke, play his senior year of high school football in the fall."