What the FUCK!!!!

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How many super bowls did Charmin win?

[MJZiggy]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=292988http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=292988

Here it is, though it was Mike McKenzie and it was midseason game prep, but clearly Harlan thought he wasn't handling things.

Here's a highlight for you:

If he wouldn't have been able to lure Ted Thompson to be his general manager, Green Bay Packers President Bob Harlan would have been staring at an empty seat in a luxurious new office inside Lambeau Field with no options to fill it.

That's how strongly Harlan felt he needed to separate the head coach's and general manager's duties in his front office and how strongly he felt Thompson should assume one of them.

Had Thompson turned him down, Harlan had no ready alternative to fill the GM spot and would have had to conduct a long search. But early Friday morning, after about nine hours of negotiations between lawyers for both parties, Thompson agreed to a five-year deal to become the team's 10th general manager.

"I knew it would have posed a problem if he said no," Harlan said. "I would really be concerned who I would turn to."

"I think Ted's matured a great deal in the last five years," Harlan said. "I think he's put together the scouting staff in Seattle, run the drafts, and I think he's become a much more efficient personnel guy in the last five years. He's grown in these 13 years. His career has progressed, and I think he's one of the better personnel people in the league.

Said Wolf: "That's a great hire. He's the right man for the job."

Sherman's regular-season record of 53-27 is the fifth-best over the first five years of a coaching career since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, but his drafts and free-agent signings were fraught with mistakes. Harlan was concerned that the dual role was taking away from Sherman's ability to coach the team.

A meticulous and tireless worker, Sherman poured all his energy into his job, and Harlan said he started to sense that the head man was spreading himself too thin. Never a fan of the dual coach-general manager arrangement for one man, Harlan became concerned when a general manager from another team spoke of seeing Sherman at every off-season scouting event, regardless of its insignificance.

Harlan said he basically came to his decision to relieve Sherman of the general manager's duties when he saw him agonizing over the situation involving cornerback Mike McKenzie. A holdout all of training camp, McKenzie reported the second week of the season with the intention only of getting traded.

The weekend before the New York Giants game on Oct. 3, Sherman was dealing with a complicated McKenzie issue while preparing for the game. Harlan met with Sherman the day before the game and saw how distracted he was.

"All he talked about was the difficult situation he was having with McKenzie's agent and the difficult situation he was having with the New Orleans Saints trying to make a trade," Harlan said. "And I thought, 'You know, with a big game coming up tomorrow, we need to be focused in. Somebody else can do these things.' "

italics are mine.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

It was McKenzie, not Sharper.

Sharper didn’t got Sherman fired.

The McKenzie fiasco was a no win situation for Sherman. All said, firing Sherman as GM was a mistake. 4-12 is all the evidence you need. Instead of relieving Sherman, Harlan shouldve allowed Sherman to a hired right hand man similarly to Mark Hatly. Sherman didn’t have Hatly in 04 due to his unexpected death.

[MJZiggy]

You obviously missed the part in the article about the numerous draft mistakes that also played a part in his dismissal and I SAID before I found it that I might have had the wrong player fiasco, and it might have been McK.