Make up what you will about fair compensation in return for trading a head coach—and that’s all it ever could be: a “made up” approximation of value for a rarely executed transaction—the cost isn’t what it used to be. But we have at least one piece of evidence that a team can still win a Super Bowl after doing it.
In 2002, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers traded two first rounds and two second round picks for Jon Gruden. Let me repeat that because you are probably still dumbfounded that 20 years ago, Gruden was valued about as highly as a top-10 franchise quarterback today.