Washington Football Team finalizing deal with Marty Hurney

[kungfoodude]

Just now, Khaki Lackey said:

So the owner keeps a powerless GM around to blame and fire when things go bad, then leaks the blame to select people to post on message boards to restore fan faith. (because the team only makes money when the message boards are happy.) Makes sense.

Shitty GM getting poo canned for doing a poo job = crazy conspiracy fan fiction.

[frash.exe]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

Washington fan perspective...

I'm pretty sure most of us have wished Rivera the best. We may have hated his coaching but we all thought he was a good guy.

stockholm syndrome

also this guy’s take is very inaccurate. i 100% haven’t believed in hurney as a GM since that horrible AZ divisional game in january 2009, and that was a few years before ron rivera’s name was ever associated with this organization 

[panthers55]

Washington is getting what they need. Someone who will get Rivera the guys he wants and who has a great relationship with him. At this point it seems to be a good plan. Just because Hurney's future wasn't here doesn't mean he won't be effective working with an old school coach who believes similarly to him. Neither Hurney or Rivera were a good fit for our analytics driven approach but for old school traditional football they both seem to fit in fairly well. Hurney can train his successor.

[Ricky Spanish]

17 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

Washington is getting what they need. Someone who will get Rivera the guys he wants and who has a great relationship with him. At this point it seems to be a good plan. Just because Hurney's future wasn't here doesn't mean he won't be effective working with an old school coach who believes similarly to him. Neither Hurney or Rivera were a good fit for our analytics driven approach but for old school traditional football they both seem to fit in fairly well. Hurney can train his successor.

I mean he did that here and it didn't work at all either, before and after Tepper.

No winning seasons as a GM since Fox was our Head coach. 

[Waldo]

8 minutes ago, Ricky Spanish said:

I mean he did that here and it didn't work at all either, before and after Tepper.

No winning seasons as a GM since Fox was our Head coach. 

Those two have never put a winning team on the field. Marty  and Ron. It's a dynamically bad duo.

Why anyone would expect anything different is beyond me. All they do is lose together. 4.5ish years and yup, no winning. This is built to fail.

[Raleigh PF]

I'd be on the phone day 1 offering him Teddy and CMC for their next two 1st round picks.

[Cpt slay a ho]

Well if WFT signed cam wouldn’t that indicate that hurney wasn’t behind the release of cam, therefore making his role in the teddy signing even more questionable ? 
 

I mean he wasn’t the future here and may not have wanted to take that backseat role if he knew he had another gm job lined up in Washington. Plenty of reason to move on from hurney besides performance 

[Mr. Scot]

This is...eye opening

Okay, Hurney didn't pick all the players the way, say, Bobby Beathard picked just about everybody who played for the Redskins in those four Super Bowls. "I am not," Hurney said in a conversation yesterday, "an evaluator at all."

But he did have critical input in identifying and hiring John Fox, the head coach. "He does get involved with personnel," said Beathard, Hurney's mentor and the man who facilitated the transition from covering an NFL team to running one. "He's a great guy to sit around when the scouts are in and he gets the conversation going. But I don't think he's pushy or thinks he has the experience to make those decisions."

Hurney is a facilitator, a consensus builder, an administrator who can pull together all manner of resources, start a very democratic process that works well for the Panthers, then sit with the coach and owner and come to sharp, well-reasoned decisions. 

The above excerpt comes from a profile of Marty that was written by Michael Wilbon in 2004 when the Panthers were headed to the Super Bowl. You can read the full article at the link below:

Marty Hurney makes good copy

Edited January 19, 2021 by Mr. Scot

[KillerKat]

lol Rivera is so fuging stupid

[TheSpecialJuan]

MARTY HURNEYGM, UNSIGNED FREE AGENT

Washington is "close" to hiring former Carolina general manager Marty Hurney as the team's next general manager. 

Fired by the Panthers twice over the past eight years, Hurney is the frontrunner to land the Washington GM job and rejoin former Panthers head coach Ron Rivera. Hurney's personal issues and questionable team building make him a curious hire for the Football Team, though he could fit well with the team's dysfunctional and toxic culture. Hurney in 2018 was investigated by the NFL after claims of harassment by his ex-wife and eventually cleared of wrongdoing

[Basbear]

[Waldo]

34 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

This is...eye opening

Okay, Hurney didn't pick all the players the way, say, Bobby Beathard picked just about everybody who played for the Redskins in those four Super Bowls. "I am not," Hurney said in a conversation yesterday, "an evaluator at all."

But he did have critical input in identifying and hiring John Fox, the head coach. "He does get involved with personnel," said Beathard, Hurney's mentor and the man who facilitated the transition from covering an NFL team to running one. "He's a great guy to sit around when the scouts are in and he gets the conversation going. But I don't think he's pushy or thinks he has the experience to make those decisions."

Hurney is a facilitator, a consensus builder, an administrator who can pull together all manner of resources, start a very democratic process that works well for the Panthers, then sit with the coach and owner and come to sharp, well-reasoned decisions. 

The above excerpt comes from a profile of Marty that was written by Michael Wilbon in 2004 when the Panthers were headed to the Super Bowl. You can read the full article at the link below:

Marty Hurney makes good copy

It sure explains a lot and kills some fan theories about Hurney.  Also why he did so poorly when Fox was a lame duck. Also raises the question, if those two did so poorly here then how bad can they be with WTF? 

"I am not," Hurney said in a conversation yesterday, "an evaluator at all."  My new favorite quote lol. Thank you Scott for this gem.

[Basbear]

Imagine hiring Joe person as GM, then fire him 12 years later....then rehire him!

[Sgt Schultz]

8 minutes ago, Waldo said:

It sure explains a lot and kills some fan theories about Hurney.  Also why he did so poorly when Fox was a lame duck. Also raises the question, if those two did so poorly here then how bad can they be with WTF? 

"I am not," Hurney said in a conversation yesterday, "an evaluator at all."  My new favorite quote lol. Thank you Scott for this gem.

That is a gem.  Not a talent evaluator at all, and not a contract negotiator at all.  That does explain some things.