Thompson doesn't like the media because they inform other team's of things (which isn't good in Thompson line of work).
McGinn doesn't like Thompson because he was best friends with Mike Sherman and Mike Sherman blamed Ted Thompson for taking the GM position away from him, and Favre blamed him for drafting another QB, and it was all down hill from there.
Originally Posted by: beast
You say it's ME who makes things up? This is as bad as u complaining about what I said about a game I wasn't even on the forum to talk about.
Yeah. McGinn and Sherman were really good friends. Lol.
PACKERS; PACKERS FIRE MIKE SHERMAN; Time was right to wield ax
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, Jan 3, 2006 by BOB MCGINN
Green Bay The Green Bay Packers had been growing staid, stodgy and stale for the better part of three seasons. Under coach Mike Sherman, they were going nowhere fast. His usefulness to the organization had run its course.
Ted Thompson watched from arm's length for almost 12 months. He handed Sherman his two-year, $6.4 million extension in late August simply to give the proud coach a fighting chance to lead his players. Then he closed his mouth and let Sherman sign his own walking papers.
Given the same uneven deck Sherman was dealt this season, it's conceivable the Packers could perform no better next season and maybe get worse. But even though Sherman did post a 59-43 record in six seasons, the Packers are better off with fresh blood, new voices and a different approach.
Whether Thompson can deliver a more effective coach than Sherman remains to be seen. It will be a highly competitive job market, and the Packers probably will start finding out in the near future that they're not nearly as attractive as they might think.
Sherman possessed superior organizational skills, an insatiable appetite for work and a keen appreciation for the history of the franchise. He really wanted to be here, too, a critical and often overlooked part of the Green Bay equation. In fact, in December 2001, he said the Packers would be his last job in coaching.
Unfortunately for Sherman, team president Bob Harlan allowed Ron Wolf to select his successor as general manager when Sherman had no qualifications. One NFL personnel man and a close friend of Wolf's insists to this day that the main reason why Wolf recommended Sherman for the dual role was he knew Sherman lacked the acuity ever to challenge the legendary record that he etched in Packers lore.
Sherman was eminently unqualified to run a personnel department, but the man did give it his all. In September 2002, Sports Illustrated ranked Sherman No. 2 among the NFL's 32 head coaches and the power that they wielded. A year or so later, Sherman stopped to consider the football empire he had humming under his detailed direction in posh new surroundings and told me he and his people could be running Ford Motor Co.
His self-confidence grew to such an extent that he wanted to make every decision himself. That's when some of his closest advisors began to feel they weren't even necessary. That's why the team's second-level scouts were shut out of the draft room in the week before the 2004 draft. And it was a significant reason why Ray Sherman and Johnny Roland, two capable career NFL assistants, bolted Green Bay a year ago to make lateral moves into losing situations.
Three years into his tenure, the Packers were plus-24 in turnover differential. They generally were playing a smart, disciplined brand of football.
The coaching of Sherman, offensive coordinator Tom Rossley and quarterbacks coach Darrell Bevell must be credited to some extent for why Brett Favre had merely four interceptions in the first nine games of 2002. It was one of the most brilliant stretches of his career. As it turned out, it was too good to be true.
Right before our eyes, the Packers gradually went from being a well-drilled outfit to a sloppy one. This was the team Thompson reviewed on tape from 2004 and the team he silently watched from his press-box seat in '05.
The Packers turned the ball over 106 times from 2003-'05, a total surpassed only by the St. Louis Rams with 115. It reached a crescendo this season when the Packers committed 45 turnovers.
As much as Favre deserves credit for Sherman's four playoff appearances with his good play, he also deserves blame for his four playoff defeats with his poor play. At some point, Sherman and his offensive coaches lost control of their quarterback. In some ways, all their kid-gloves treatment of Favre got them was fired.
"When you turn the ball over that is bad football," said Larry Beightol, Sherman's offensive line coach. "But nobody has harped on (turnovers) more than Mike Sherman. Nobody. He has coached the coaches. He has coached the players. But this will get you every time. You can't throw into double coverage."
Despite all of that, Sherman was a good enough tactician and overall football coach to lead the Packers to the brink of a Super Bowl appearance in '03. The Packers were injury-free and beginning to feel like children of destiny in the wake of Favre's unforgettable performance in Oakland less than 24 hours after the death of his father.
Then came the wounded Eagles in Philadelphia. With an aging quarterback and Wolf's personnel pipeline beginning to dry up, this was the best chance Sherman ever would have in Green Bay.
All everyone wants to remember about that game is fourth and 26. What everyone should remember is the fourth and 1 and how, if handled properly, there never would have been a fourth and 26.
No Packers fan will ever forget what happened. Sherman put the game into the hands of his punter and defense instead of all-pro running back Ahman Green and the prized offensive line.
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."