Gettleman road to GM

[Squirrel]

I know most know the story. But this one has some more insight.  

 

http://m.giants.com/news-and-blogs/article-1/Front-Office-Veteran-Dave-Gettleman-makes-first-Super-Bowl-as-GM/6a268226-be99-4551-a377-ff3eed598873

[Mr. Scot]

Loved this quote from Accorsi...

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I've taken some degree of pleasure in reminding all of the teams that I called about him - 'You remember when I called you about Dave Gettleman?' And all those teams have since fired the guy that they hired instead of Dave.

[caatfan]

Nobody wanted Gettleman for GM. Nobody wanted Rivera for head coach. Panthers were stupid for drafting Cam #1. 

I guess that's what happens when you're a lousy organization. 

[countryboi]

3 minutes ago, caatfan said:

Nobody wanted Gettleman for GM. Nobody wanted Rivera for head coach. Panthers were stupid for drafting Cam #1. 

I guess that's what happens when you're a lousy organization. 

a team full of outcasts

[ickmule]

This is a beautiful thing. 

[ladypanther]

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"(Jerry Richardson) called me and said, 'Would you recommend this (hiring Gettleman), and is there any reason I shouldn't do it?'" Mara said. "I said, 'You should sign him right away. He'll do a great job for you.' It's worked out quite well for him. I remember the first league meeting after Dave was hired, I went up to Jerry and I asked him, 'How's it going?' He said, 'So far, so good. I really like him, there's just one problem.' I said, 'What's that?' He said, 'I can't understand a word he says.' Dave has that real severe New England accent. Jerry, of course, has that real southern accent, so the communication was a struggle at first. It seems like it's been a perfect marriage."
 

Now that is too funny!

[chknwing]

“(Jerry Richardson) called me and said, ‘Would you recommend this (hiring Gettleman), and is there any reason I shouldn’t do it?’” Mara said. “I said, ‘You should sign him right away. He’ll do a great job for you.’ It’s worked out quite well for him. I remember the first league meeting after Dave was hired, I went up to Jerry and I asked him, ‘How’s it going?’ He said, ‘So far, so good. I really like him, there’s just one problem.’ I said, ‘What’s that?’ He said, ‘I can’t understand a word he says.’ Dave has that real severe New England accent. Jerry, of course, has that real southern accent, so the communication was a struggle at first. It seems like it’s been a perfect marriage.”

[2jakefansinva]

someone should post a sign at DG's parking spot that reads.....

"Hahvuhd Yahd"

[Mr. Scot]

Gantt chimes in...

Gettleman puts his stamp on Panthers without firing anybody

[Captain Morgan]

1 hour ago, countryboi said:

a team full of outcasts

 

which may be why they have bonded so closely

[Mr. Scot]

Talking about scouting philosophy (from Voth)

“The way we looked at players, the way we scouted, just understanding that the average college player just isn’t fundamentally sound. You have to look at it differently.

For example, you take a linebacker, so the scout watches him and he says, ‘Well he doesn’t know how to use his hands.’ So he knocks his grade down a little bit. Well did anyone ever teach him? We don’t know.

The other part of it is too, to a certain degree, the college players the 20-hour rule, which hurts them. It hurts our ability to spend time the player. You’ve got to look at it a little bit differently.

I’ll give you a quick for instance. We go to the Combine last year and we’re looking at the DBs and they do a back-pedal-and-turn drill for time. I’m up in the box for the second group and I ask one of our defensive coaches how many guys are there? He said 53. I said how many of them can back pedal and turn? He said 12. I said so are we going to take the other 41 and throw them away? How many of the other guys have the athletic ability to back pedal and turn?

So you have to look at those a little differently. The League is different. You have 32 teams.”

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