not bad for a GM who is no better than average.
Originally Posted by: sschind
It's a vote/popularity contest. The first year he won it was the year we lost the NFC Championship. Oh, how the praise rolled in...look at TT's team! It was 4-12 just two years prior. Why was it 4-12? Umm...he was trying to blow out Sherman and offered him no help that season greasing the skids to fire him. Sherman's teams had made the playoffs the 4 previous seasons and were over .500 the previous 5. Samkon Gado, Tony Fisher, Antonio Chatman sure did Sherman a ton of favors. When Antonio Chatman is your 2nd highest targeted WR far and away over the 3rd most targeted you're kinda going to be in trouble. Samkon Gado had almost double the carries of Ahman Green. A year of injuries to star players like Ahman and Javon. Pack started 0-4 losing 3 of those games by a combined 6 points. So, he wins an award for "rebuilding" a 4-12 team that he helped to a 4-12 record.
The following year was the year of the Favre trade. What stones it took to deal Favre and go with HIS draft choice. Aaron Rodgers. Hey, this award was solely for the Favre trade. The balls it took to deal the most popular Packer, ever, to go with his draft pick. It's my favorite Ted Thompson move and I don't discount this award at all even though the team wasn't very good the following year at 6-10. Just a move hailed by the league of his peers when it saw that Rodgers could play.
No award for the year we won the SB? He did get an award the following year for the 15-1 team that had one of the worst defenses in NFL history. TT's kryptonite ... the inability to build a D. Even with the worst D in NFL history he wins an award due to our gaudy 15-1 record. Yes, praise that man ... Aaron Rodgers tore up the league that season.
I'm not sure I'm that impressed by his 3 award winning seasons but I'm sure most of you are.
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."