Good description of job protection, such as it is, in the NFL - and really, in all industries.
I spent most of my career in commission sales (Managment Consulting, Executive Staffing) and always worked on commission. No salary, but alco no cap on my earnings. I mostly had good years, but the bad ones were there too. I just got used to living not day to day, but certainly quarter to quarter.
But I was always motivated by the same thing that motivated my different employers - making money.
You're right - Bisaccia should have been given two or three areas for measurable improvement, and maybe he was. But his STs weren't ever special, and he should have been whacked last year, at the earliest. In the end he left on his terms. MLF just doesn't like to fire people, and that's a big liability. Why OC paper tiger Stenavich (sp?) is still on the team in any capacity is beyond me.