nerdmann
8 years ago

The Packers have two coveted GM candidates. The Green Bay Packers’ continued run of success on the field has extended to their front office.


According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, director of football operations Eliot Wolf and director of player personnel Brian Gutekunst plan to interview for the San Francisco 49ers’ vacant general-manager position.

On Sunday, the 49ers fired long-time GM Trent Baalke and head coach Chip Kelly, creating a void at the two biggest positions in the organization. The team appears likely to interview numerous outside candidates for general manager as well as in-house option Tom Gamble. In pursuit of that goal, the team has made arrangements to sit down with two of the Packers’ top front-office executives.

Wolf, the 34-year-old son of Hall of Fame general manager Ron Wolf, has received consideration as a general manager in recent years. The Detroit Lions reportedly tried to interview him last offseason but did not receive permission from Wolf’s current team. However, the Packers
cannot prevent Wolf from interviewing this time around. Though not confirmed, offseason reports indicate that Green Bay considers Wolf the heir apparent to current general manager Ted Thompson. Wolf first joined the Packers as a pro personnel assistant in 2004.

Like Wolf, Gutekunst has also worked his way up the ranks of the Packers’ front office in recent years. He began his scouting career with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998 before arriving in Green Bay the following season. He has remained with the organization since that time, moving up from regional scout to his current position in 2012.

The Packers front office has produced numerous general managers in recent years. In addition to Thompson, who served with the team as an assistant during the 1990s before returning in 2005, current GMs John Schneider (Seattle Seahawks), Reggie McKenzie (Oakland Raiders), John Dorsey (Chiefs), and Scot McCloughan (Washington) began their scouting careers in Green Bay.

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gbguy20
8 years ago
If we lose wolf....
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yooperfan
8 years ago
The Packers should offer them Ted Thompson for a bag of practice balls, keep the young blood and move on.🤬
Porforis
8 years ago

The Packers should offer them Ted Thompson for a bag of practice balls, keep the young blood and move on.🤬

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 



Overinflated, underinflated, or just right?
isocleas2
8 years ago
It would be hard to swallow if our heir apparent is signed away by the 49'ers. I wonder if they offer Wolf the job if he'll allow the Packers the opportunity to match and Thompson does agree to step down this offseason.

I can't see Murphy having the balls to fire T.T. just to promote Wolf early, it would be very shrewd and some part of T.T. would have to respect it haha. But T.T. is a proven builder to fire the steady hand for a young gun who could flop is not how you become president of the greatest NFL franchise.

Its a win-win for Wolf, his power play will get him a GM gig somewhere. This offseason probably but next year at the latest imo.
Zero2Cool
8 years ago
The 49ers just don't scare me when it comes to interviewing Packers people.

49ers "mutually" parted ways with a Head Coach that made them a contender.

49ers fired the hand picked replacement after one season.

49ers fired the next head coach before he finished a full season.


They just fired their General Manager (obviously, that's why they are interviewing), but this team is quickly becoming the West Coast Browns.

Why would you leave a stable franchise that you know you're going to inherit the reigns in a year (maybe sooner) or two for a cesspool? Maybe I'm seeing this wrong. Maybe that cesspool is exactly the challenge someone would want instead of taking over something your daddy started decades prior?


Personally, anyone who chooses 49ers over the Packers isn't someone I want running the Packers anyway. That shows piss poor judgment!!
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Barfarn
8 years ago

The 49ers just don't scare me when it comes to interviewing Packers people.

49ers "mutually" parted ways with a Head Coach that made them a contender.

49ers fired the hand picked replacement after one season.

49ers fired the next head coach before he finished a full season.


They just fired their General Manager (obviously, that's why they are interviewing), but this team is quickly becoming the West Coast Browns.

Why would you leave a stable franchise that you know you're going to inherit the reigns in a year (maybe sooner) or two for a cesspool? Maybe I'm seeing this wrong. Maybe that cesspool is exactly the challenge someone would want instead of taking over something your daddy started decades prior?


Personally, anyone who chooses 49ers over the Packers isn't someone I want running the Packers anyway. That shows piss poor judgment!!

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



I was going to say if they go to SF, they're too dumb to GM GB.

Jed York is an idiot! He had to let Harbaugh go; but Baalke has always been an idiot and without McLoughin, his draft success has been joke like. Baalke turned down Gase to hire Kelly; it was my fear the Bears would dump Fox and hire Gase for 2016 ;we dodged a bullet there.

York is a two-faced scum. The reason GB cant block the interview is because York is purporting that his GM will have final say over personnel. He said this ONLY so that Wolf and others similarly situated could not be blocked by their teams; but York cant be believed. Only thing worse than a Jerry Jones meddler is a Jerry Jones meddler who says he doesn't meddle. York is already interviewing HCs even though he has no GM.

Odds of Wolf leaving: below zero, minus 1 trillion billion zillion. Guntekust: 1 in a million.
nerdmann
8 years ago
Let's say you have a highly successful mentor who is teaching you everyhing he knows. This dude is bringing you up through the ranks, out of loyalty to your dad.

Are you going to turn around and force him out of his job like that? I mean damn, sit another year, two max. They will hand you the keys.

Dude is coming across as a greedy little bitch, imo. Not sure I want him in charge if that's the type of character he has. Ted didn't HAVE to bring him up like that. To me, it suggests that Wolf is not ready to fill those shoes.

It's a cheap power play. If they wanted an asshole running things, they could have had John Jones instead of Murphy.
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Porforis
8 years ago

Let's say you have a highly successful mentor who is teaching you everyhing he knows. This dude is bringing you up through the ranks, out of loyalty to your dad.

Are you going to turn around and force him out of his job like that? I mean damn, sit another year, two max. They will hand you the keys.

Dude is coming across as a greedy little bitch, imo. Not sure I want him in charge if that's the type of character he has. Ted didn't HAVE to bring him up like that. To me, it suggests that Wolf is not ready to fill those shoes.

It's a cheap power play. If they wanted an asshole running things, they could have had John Jones instead of Murphy.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 



At a certain point in your life though, working up through the ranks of an organization you get tired of always hearing about your dad and what he did and just "waiting a few more years" for your chance to pave your own road and manage your own destiny. If it were contractually guaranteed somehow that he'd get promoted? Maybe. But a year or two is a long time.
Barfarn
8 years ago

At a certain point in your life though, working up through the ranks of an organization you get tired of always hearing about your dad and what he did and just "waiting a few more years" for your chance to pave your own road and manage your own destiny. If it were contractually guaranteed somehow that he'd get promoted? Maybe. But a year or two is a long time.

Originally Posted by: Porforis 



This may be true, and Wolf may leave because of it; but he's not going to SF.
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