Cards to hire real GM

[blindseyed]

I think Green and Graves know how to creat a winner , they just don't know what to do with thier creation !

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They haven't created one yet...

 

[BlueTalon]

I have no idea how this is going to turn out for you guys, but I'm here to tell you, it made all the difference in the world for us. We got a new GM early in 2005. The old guy played office politics and made things miserable for the coaching staff, but the owner never got wind of the conflict because the GM was the conduit of information. Holmgren was about ready to walk, and went to talk to Paul Allen about it. Allen saw there was a problem, and saw that Holmgren was not the problem, so he canned the old GM, and searched for a replacement that not only knows football, but knows personnel. For us, bringing in Tim Ruskell was the one thing that made everything else in 2005 possible for us. Now we have ownership, management, and coaches all working together toward a common goal.

In your situation, I think it's really important that your owner finds a knowledgeable GM that he can trust and work with. If you do stumble on that combination, your potential goes through the roof.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

I have no idea how this is going to turn out for you guys, but I'm here to tell you, it made all the difference in the world for us. We got a new GM early in 2005. The old guy played office politics and made things miserable for the coaching staff, but the owner never got wind of the conflict because the GM was the conduit of information. Holmgren was about ready to walk, and went to talk to Paul Allen about it. Allen saw there was a problem, and saw that Holmgren was not the problem, so he canned the old GM, and searched for a replacement that not only knows football, but knows personnel. For us, bringing in Tim Ruskell was the one thing that made everything else in 2005 possible for us. Now we have ownership, management, and coaches all working together toward a common goal.

In your situation, I think it's really important that your owner finds a knowledgeable GM that he can trust and work with. If you do stumble on that combination, your potential goes through the roof.

Wasn't that guy Bob Ferguson? I know he went to Seattle after leaving Arizona.

 

[BlueTalon]

Wasn't that guy Bob Ferguson? I know he went to Seattle after leaving Arizona.

NO!!! Bob Whitsett is the guy (Whitsett the Weasle, I like to call him) who mucked things up. His knowledge of professional football came from his experience as the GM of the Portland Trailblazers, another franchise owned by Paul Allen. To be fair, Whitsett was apparently instrumental in convincing Allen to buy the Seahawks, without which they probably would have been moved to California by the previous ownership.

Tim Ruskell replaced Bob Whitsett.

Perhaps my use of the term GM is confusing things. Just think of the head **** in charge of the front office. Ferguson I believe was either a personnel guy or a cap/contract guy.

 

[phillycard]

What's Modrak doing?? Is he still in Buffalo?? I wouldn't mind him at all.

 

[football karma]

What's Modrak doing?? Is he still in Buffalo?? I wouldn't mind him at all.

Assistant GM in Buffalo

The Cards could do much worse --

built the Eagles beginning in 1999 (he drafted Donavan McNabb) into a championship type team using a fiscally sane approach

He was a victim of palace politics a couple years ago and went to the Bills

Some say the Patriots basically emulated Modrak's approach of letting productive, but on the wrong side of 30 players walk rather than signing them to large, cap constraining contracts

He worked for the Rooneys in Pittsburgh and the Wilsons in Buffalo, so he would be familiar with old line NFL owners.

 

[lobo]

He worked for the Rooneys in Pittsburgh and the Wilsons in Buffalo, so he would be familiar with old line NFL owners.[/quote]

if i were the "greatest gm in the world" and had the opportunity to work for the cardinals with all the YES YES YES promises i would be given by mike, jr and sr what to do i have to base it on that i will be allowed to do my job...how many of the 40 coaches over the last 87 years can i talk to...how many "real GM's" can i talk to....how much scuttlebut can i hear about this place being a graveyard for execs and coaches....NO THANKS. That is the problem we are going to face...or should i say the guy who takes the job.

 

[vinnymac]

if modrak can help the cardianls than i am all for it.

 

[DeAnna]

Interesting that Mike B is travelling to LA next week - without Graves. Things that make you go "hmmm..."

 

[Mulli]

Interesting that Mike B is travelling to LA next week - without Graves. Things that make you go "hmmm..."

hmmm. Probably going to get some Tommy's chiliburgers.....

 

[lobo]

Interesting that Mike B is travelling to LA next week - without Graves. Things that make you go "hmmm..."

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are you his travel agent??? everyone can hit control>alt>del cause he aint' goin' there for why everyone thinks he is ...he is visiting tommy prothro