Some habits are hard to break!
There’ve been some comments recently (Bedard?) that every team had to designate some kind of “primary executive “ (I think was the term) to the league regardless of their actual title (GM, Pres, etc).
That makes sense. Can't have ambiguity on finalizing deals. Someone needs to be official signoff.
I say this without snark. On this front, a big F.U. to the fans. All naming a particular guy with a title does is create an environment where fans: A) assume they know what the role of that position is; and 2) assume they can do it better. Let the off-season couch-potato football cogniscenti stew in their own juices. If the team wins, great. If they suck, hurl all the rocks and garbage you want.
I was thinking more "the Krafts have a fall guy if it all goes to shit". It's in their own self interest. Not necessarily meaningful otherwise.
Maybe they conduct some "interviews" after the draft and name him. If the Rooney rule meant anything it would be tied to functions not job title.
Not sure it's all Wolf guys, I guess you could argue AVP is a Wolf guy by virtue of overlapping for a couple years back in GB (Wolf was out in CLE before AVP and most of the rest got there, they came in with Stefanski) and therefore so are the rest, but really most have more direct ties through AVP and/or Pat Stewart.
Really Browns much more than Packers.
competing for the playoffs is something that we’re not going to shy away from.
Yeah, certainly they never did that under the previous regime.
Yes. I kind of know what he's getting at, but that was very poor phrasing, IMO.
Through the whole of the horrible 2023 season, the defense played it collective asses off. The team stunk, but goddammit they did not quit in spite of getting the worst QB play any of us have seen in our lifetimes.
It was a stupid thing to say, frankly. The goal is to win Super Bowls. No one expects them to win one next year, but that's the entire point. And Wolf keeps pointing to the GB model....they've won 2 Super Bowls but got 20 years of HoF level QB play along the way and there's a serious argument to be made that the Packers are perennial disappointments.
Shouldn't we make the distinction between the culture that Wolf presides over (Front Office) vs. the culture that Mayo oversees (the locker room/on-field)? I would have loved a follow-up question about the upper leadership culture having a "hard-ass vibe" vs. how the players were coached.
The entire point of the "hard-ass" culture was accountability. DO YOUR JOB was both a slogan and an ethos. Be accountable to the coaches and your teammates.
Thats how I took his comments...in conjunction with the "collaborative" description of the draft. I dont think he gives a shit how "hard-ass" Mayo is with players.
I think there's a way of holding people accountable without being a dick. It might be a positive step forward for the organization to try doing it a different way.
Who says BB was being a dick by the way he did it? They have to be very careful here that they don't have people in the building who think that being held accountable in and of itself is being a dick.
Agreed. I think this is more Wolf knowing they’re going to end up with ~$101 million to spend so they’re sending messages to FA’s that it won’t be the same hardo culture in New England moving forward.
100%. These are sort of puff piece press conferences. I highly doubt he would say something about how the team will or should be coached.
Supposedly Bill ignored his scouting staff who had recommended Deebo Samuel and AJ Brown in 2019 and took the word of N’Keal Harry’s coach at ASU.
They are replacing the most successful 20 year run in football history and certainly seem to be doubling down on the idea that it's all BB's fault.
Well when you've convinced yourself that all the blame should have fallen on one guy, Mac in this case, then yes of course you're going to have an issue with anything the new regime says outside of "It was all the QB's fault."
The funny thing was that Mac got a lot of rope than I expected, given his shitty play and his pressers where he doubled down on the hero's journey narrative. So I would say they weren't hard-assed enough with him. I still can't believe they let him start the Giants game after that farce of a performance against Indy.
Don't kid yourself: the narrative that BB ruined or didn't develop Mac properly is out there. It's on Twitter and it's been in articles. I shudder to think that someone actually in the building might believe that.
