Resume of a Good GM....

[Marguide]

#1 is not important. Most teams, ours included, have cap specialists on staff. So Marty had someone reporting to him that managed the cap. Marty is the guy that made the personnel decisions.

The ability to hire and manage good football people is the #1 requirement.

[Zod]

#1 is not important.

incorrect.

The financial side of the biz is infinitely more complex and volatile than the talent acquisition portion. If you want a good GM, he better be well versed in finance.

[LinvilleGorge]

Where, pray tell, can we find this magical person who is a lawyer, financial savant, and also has NFL ready football knowledge?

[ncguy2184]

Steve Reed ‏@SteveReedAP

Marty Hurney says he believes owner Jerry Richardson will wait until after the season to hire a permanent GM.

[Captroop]

Where, pray tell, can we find this magical person who is a lawyer, financial savant, and also has NFL ready football knowledge?

The gaping maw of the pit of Hell, if I had my guess.

[Mr. Scot]

I gotta put football knowledge first.

Without that, none of the other stuff matters

[Zod]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_McKay

Someone like that would be nice. Kept the window open in Tampa for nearly a decade.

[Zod]

I gotta put football knowledge first.

Without that, none of the other stuff matters

Without the finance portion, you get a team that is paying marginal players a ton and find yourself in cap trouble year after year.

Sound familiar?

[Yaboychris28]

#20. magic...

[Mr. Scot]

Without the finance portion, you get a team that is paying marginal players a ton and find yourself in cap trouble year after year.

Sound familiar?

Without football knowledge, you don't know what a player is worth.

[Zod]

Without football knowledge, you don't know what a player is worth.

You do if you have an entire staff letting you know how well players are doing.

I am not saying he can be football illiterate, but he/she doesn't need to be great talent evaluators. He needs a qualified staff that handles that.

[panthers55]

Without a doubt the most important characteristic is being able to manage people and multiple personalities with sometimes conflicting wishes and desires. He has to be a good decision maker with the ability to inspire others and a clear vision of what we need to be successful. Obviously knowing the finance piece is important as is the contract piece but we could hire a bean counter as a GM and it would be a disaster. GMs have to manage people much more than simply being a cap manager or even a football guru. You can hire a cap specialist and an attorney to manage the language for example but the art is in the negotiation and that takes a people person. Seems to me the GM has to have a vision which he can sell to others and get them to buy into it. He is the face behind the franchise who has his hand in everything.

[Jonah Hill]

Can we hire Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill? Get tough on negotiations and draft well to take advantage of those rookie contracts.

Please let me get this job! To be honest, I'm not that good of an actor and I need work.

[Kettle]

first person I thought of after OP was Ed Hochuli