Gettleman; "Me and Greg Jennings sort of kicked the tires and discussed if he would be a good fit."

[RoaringRiot]

Please add how many and which teams passed on him in the response please.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

a dollar store signing installed by one of the most decorated and respected consultants in football too

[Mr. Scot]

While apparently Mr Scot has no knowledge of why teams passed over Dave Gettleman for GM, i can hear that you have a lot. Please enlighten us on why he never got the chance to be the GM of another team.

Why ask me these things? Heck, all I've done is thoroughly research every GM candidate we had when the job was open. What would I know?

As to the question, Ernie Accorsi addressed that.

Gettleman is not a self promoter. You had a lot of guys who aggressively pushed themselves, got jobs and didn't live up to their hype. Meanwhile, Gettleman quietly did his job (and did it very well) and waited for his chance.

Just an FYI, one of the teams that passed on Gettleman was the Cleveland Browns, i.e. the same team that fired Bill Belichick. As I recall, they chose Phil Savage instead, and Savage was out of that job - and the NFL - within a few years. The Chiefs also passed him over for someone that wound up fired as well (I forget who) as did another team (Lions maybe).

How much you wanna bet those teams would like a 'do over' on those decisions?

And as an aside, if you ask the Giants who were the architects of the 125 page game plan they used to defeat a previously undefeated Patriots team in the Super Bowl, one of the names has the initials DG.

Bottom Line: Call me crazy, but the best stretch of drafting we've ever had plus our first ever back to back playoff appearances sounds pretty positive to me.

I guess some people just don't care about winning

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

brandon beane would have been a cheap shitty signing

 

panther fans aren't used to how real teams are run and it shows with the rivers of tears every time some underperforming overpaid old ass fossil gets released without a ticker tape parade

[Mr. Scot]

brandon beane would have been a cheap shitty signing

panther fans aren't used to how real teams are run and it shows with the rivers of tears every time some underperforming overpaid old ass fossil gets released without a ticker tape parade

I remember Pat Yasinskas insisting that Beane had as good a chance as anyone at the job and Joe Person echoing him. The usual scream, whine and panic crowd on here was dead certain he'd be the choice. But when Accorsi later listed all the guys they'd considered, no shock, Beane wasn't one of them.

Shortly thereafter, someone asked Pat if Gettleman had ever been a college scout. It was his first job in the NFL - and all you had to do to know that was read his bio - but Yasinskas said he never had.

I remember thinking "these guys are getting paid for this"?

[AceBoogie]

One thing I'm not going to do anymore is go back and forth with Mr. Scot. It's like arguing with your grandpa who's stuck in ways mad at all the technological upgrades.

[Mr. Scot]

One thing I'm not going to do anymore is go back and forth with Mr. Scot. It's like arguing with your grandpa who's stuck in ways mad at all the technological upgrades.

Can't really blame me for your arguments being uninformed and out of touch with reality.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

I remember Pat Yasinskas insisting that Beane had as good a chance as anyone at the job and Joe Person echoing him. The usual scream, whine and panic crowd on here was dead certain he'd be the choice. But when Accorsi later listed all the guys they'd considered, no shock, Beane wasn't one of them.

Shortly thereafter, someone asked Pat if Gettleman had ever been a college scout. It was his first job in the NFL - and all you had to do to know that was read his bio - but Yasinskas said he never had.

I remember thinking "these guys are getting paid for this"?

 

i remember pat spelling gettleman's name about three different ways over the course of that article.  and of course i remember the panic over beane and "oh no not again some JR yes-man with no qualifications will be running the team!1" that came with it.

 

there was a method to gettleman's hiring and to deny that is straight revisionist history.  the selection process was handed over to a guy with a championship pedigree who has built super bowl teams.  this wasn't a penny pinching maneuver or a favor done for somebody's kid.