Not sure I understand why you typed the highlighted portion? A GM gig IS A PROMOTION.
Bob McGinn is the BEST newspaper guy that covers the Packers and has been for years. He is unafraid to speak the truth. Almost all paper guys in Green Bay tiptoe around any warranted criticism but not ol' Bob...he tells it as he sees it. Couldn't respect him more for that. It's little wonder he's reviled on Packers forums everywhere. He doesn't give you a warm and fuzzy when you're done reading him like almost all the others and especially Packers.com.
Disagree that it's only Rodgers who dictates more SB's. In theory, if he played close to perfect you might be correct but it's very hard to carry a team with the defense ours has to the Lombardi. Ted has been taking cut after cut after cut at high defensive draft picks and our D is STILL terrible after years of this. I've said this before but Ted should be relegated to drafting offense and turn it over to someone else to draft defense.
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Is director of football operations above or below GM? Who knows, titles being what they are. The key factor is supposedly whether the new job has final say over personnel. If so, its a promotion. York has said his new GM will have final say. I'm guessing that if Wolf doesn't do what York wants; York cant fire him; but he can move his office into the laundry room in a deep basement with no cell or wireless service and change his Mercedes Benz Company car to a '73 Vega without working heat or air.
Again, thought we had a little talk, STOP BENDING REALITY TO MAKE A POINT. FACT: Huber, Dunne, Cohen, Demovsky, Hodkiewicz and Wilde have all written dozens of critical articles. McSpinn's writing gives you the warm and fuzzies because he makes stuff up.
My opinion of McSpinn is a scholarly judgement, to wit: I busted up McSpinn about a Mason Foster hack piece he wrote excoriating Ted. And there was Brandon Burks he liked, so he said Burks picked up 3 blitzes, when he did not; McStroke made it up. He got mad, because 1265 busted up Cohen on that Hack Piece on Guion and wrote some BS articles in retaliation. Read the piece he wrote ranking the players in NFC north; there are at least a half dozen statements attributed to team execs that there is no way an exec would say those things. One day we may find out that all the scouts McClown purports to speak to is actually Siri.
Now read what he wrote:
"Friends of Wolf said he was disappointed not having the chance to speak with the Lions about a job for which sources said he was the frontrunner. Moreover, those same people said Ron Wolf, the Packers’ retired GM and a mentor to Thompson, wasn’t pleased at all."
That is self-evident BULLSHIT. "Friends of Wolf," really? So McSpinnsuck happen to have a list of Eliot's friends and he called them and then
at least 2 said to a reporter on the record, "yea, Eliot was pissed at Ted and his dad was mad too." These are either not friends at all, if this was said in confidence or Wolf had his friends leak the info like a little school girl passing a note to a friend to see if Johnny wants to go steady. Let me tell you something about Wolf, if he has a problem with something you've done he will show up in your office and deal with it face to face and he wont leak the story like a little debutante school boy. And if he did, he just disqualified himself from being the GM of an NFL team.
I'd be shocked if McGinn got one friend to talk; impossible it was plural. McGinn wrote "friends" because in his own mind he knew he was writing a fabrication and the plural was subconsciousness way of adding more credibility to something he knew consciously was bogus. Then like Stephen Glass, he probably doctored his notes if they even do a fact check on a Packer story.