Who should be the next GM?

[bobblehead]

It would be an absolute damn shame to give up a draft pick just to get a GM, I don't care who it is.

We once traded a pick for a coach and then a 1st for a guy who went in the 2nd the year before and sat on the pine for that year. It worked out ok.

[wist43]

I would be ok with giving up a pick for Schneider... would rather do that than just hand the reins over to Ball, which is what I think is going to happen.

[pbmax]

Scot McCloughan has been run out of three other franchises and has an admitted drinking problem. You can't put him in charge.

At best you put him on top of the scout department.

[Joemailman]

nm

[pbmax]

AND THEN...........
I can see why coach Mike McCarthy would have concerns about Ball as GM, as has been widely reported in the last couple days. One NFL source told me that Thompson and Ball have been in lockstep on the team’s approach to acquiring players, which is the most draft-oriented approach in the NFL

More than any scout, Ball gets his marching order directly from Thompson and he is under orders not to talk to the press.

We wouldn't know his approach until he had the job. Schneider and McKenzie didn't take about differences until they left for other teams. Spoon even says as much in the next paragraph.

What we won’t know unless and until he sits in the GM seat is whether he would maintain that approach while in charge.

[Freak Out]

I just voted...hope I win.

[woodbuck27]

I just voted...hope I win.

You've got it.