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Why Gettleman is a GM... and you aren't.

Jeremy Igo

By Jeremy Igo,
in Carolina Panthers

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CPantherKing Grand Master

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I can pick any of you for GM of an NFL team that has an IQ over 100 and you all can play GM from your home computer and never see the inside of the stadium or meet any of the players you sign. And you know what? I will be assured of a 6-8 win season just about every season with you all shaking it up if the team has a season that goes 5 wins or less. And you will have a season every 4 or 5 years that will produce 10+ wins.

 

You could get rid of the front office and turn your team into a reality competition show and the fans of your team can buy Virtual GM memberships to vote for what players are kept and what coaches are kept. The team would cut the salaries from their overhead and make more money off the entertainment value of the team. Plus, their ticket sales and merchandise would go up year round. And you will still be guaranteed a 6-8 win season with a 10+ win season every 5 seasons.

 

Hell, I could get football baby to make all the decisions and I would get the same freaking results.

 

You are going to have 6 to12 teams in a season finish with 10+ wins. You are going to have 6 to 8 teams in a season finish with 5 or fewer wins. The talent level of the players will get you wins in the season. The skill of your coaches will get you wins in the playoffs. A GM is accountable to both of these aspects of the team, and the overall record and playoff production is representative of your GM.

 

The GM competes against 32 other GMs and only the top 8 are successful enough to retain. You gauge a GM by number of 10+ win seasons and number of playoff wins. If a GM is not skilled enough to crack the top 8 in 3 seasons and maintain that for a few consecutive seasons at a time, you get a new GM. Choosing to retain a GM who is not motivated to be the best in his profession is a recipe for team mediocrity.

 

This leads me to Gettleman's statement, "I've seen many teams win the Super Bowl in March. The idea is to win the Super Bowl in February. That is the goal."

 

Tell Seattle, New England, Denver, San Francisco, and Baltimore that load of garbage.

 

There are severe flaws in Gettleman's statement. He is dismissive of the action to motivate and follow smaller goals to a larger goal. He is already putting emphasis on the larger goal without any attention to the steps that must be successfully attained to be put in a position for the larger goal. This shows a severe lack of collective efficacy. I call his self efficacy into question as we all know his ability to create a strong sense of belief in his organization and fan base is extremely poor. This has been demonstrated by his comments and comments of players and coaches under his watch.

 

Gettleman has proven to me to be mediocre as a GM. He is not even close to the top 8 GMs in the NFL. The question is how many seasons will it take for the rest of the Carolina Panthers organization to realize this truth?

 

He should stick to scouting. It does not matter how talented the players are that you bring into the team if you fail to create the chemistry and environment necessary to believe in victory every moment, every day, and every month. Even in March!

 

I will leave you all with this sage advice.

 

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I can pick any of you for GM of an NFL team that has an IQ over 100 and you all can play GM from your home computer and never see the inside of the stadium or meet any of the players you sign. And you know what? I will be assured of a 6-8 win season just about every season with you all shaking it up if the team has a season that goes 5 wins or less. And you will have a season every 4 or 5 years that will produce 10+ wins.

You could get rid of the front office and turn your team into a reality competition show and the fans of your team can buy Virtual GM memberships to vote for what players are kept and what coaches are kept. The team would cut the salaries from their overhead and make more money off the entertainment value of the team. Plus, their ticket sales and merchandise would go up year round. And you will still be guaranteed a 6-8 win season with a 10+ win season every 5 seasons.

Hell, I could get football baby to make all the decisions and I would get the same freaking results.

You are going to have 6 to12 teams in a season finish with 10+ wins. You are going to have 6 to 8 teams in a season finish with 5 or fewer wins. The talent level of the players will get you wins in the season. The skill of your coaches will get you wins in the playoffs. A GM is accountable to both of these aspects of the team, and the overall record and playoff production is representative of your GM.

The GM competes against 32 other GMs and only the top 8 are successful enough to retain. You gauge a GM by number of 10+ win seasons and number of playoff wins. If a GM is not skilled enough to crack the top 8 in 3 seasons and maintain that for a few consecutive seasons at a time, you get a new GM. Choosing to retain a GM who is not motivated to be the best in his profession is a recipe for team mediocrity.

This leads me to Gettleman's statement, "I've seen many teams win the Super Bowl in March. The idea is to win the Super Bowl in February. That is the goal."

Tell Seattle, New England, Denver, San Francisco, and Baltimore that load of garbage.

There are severe flaws in Gettleman's statement. He is dismissive of the action to motivate and follow smaller goals to a larger goal. He is already putting emphasis on the larger goal without any attention to the steps that must be successfully attained to be put in a position for the larger goal. This shows a severe lack of collective efficacy. I call his self efficacy into question as we all know his ability to create a strong sense of belief in his organization and fan base is extremely poor. This has been demonstrated by his comments and comments of players and coaches under his watch.

Gettleman has proven to me to be mediocre as a GM. He is not even close to the top 8 GMs in the NFL. The question is how many seasons will it take for the rest of the Carolina Panthers organization to realize this truth?

He should stick to scouting. It does not matter how talented the players are that you bring into the team if you fail to create the chemistry and environment necessary to believe in victory every moment, every day, and every month. Even in March!

I will leave you all with this sage advice.

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Ok... he's proven to you that he's a mediocre GM... but who the fug are you?

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I've said this bdeore in another thread but uh

- Your franchise QB was playing hurt most of the season.

- Your oline din't have any real set pieces and gelled until the last 5 weeks. Same for your DBs.

- One of your starting pass rushers was playing hurt most of the season, the other was suspended for all but one game

- Your starting HB was hurt and didn't get healthy until late, and even before that he was running behind aforementioned terrible O-line.

We have weaknesses, yes, and we're going to adress them. You seem to think that Gettleman is ignoring them for funsies because he's not breaking the bank on these top flight WRs and is waiting for the market to cool down a bit...you know...like Most GMs Do.

This is an excellent post.

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The problem for me you are bitching about 7 weeks too early.  If we havent done better than Bersin by the end of the draft then you have a point.I have full faith that we will sign another WR in free agency and pick one up in the draft  I just saw that Patterson is being shopped and Bowe is being released. I wonder who else might get the ax over the next 2 or 3 weeks who would be cheap and as good as Shorts, Nicks, and Crabtree.  I am fine with letting tings play out and see what happens.  There will be plenty of time to bitch between the draft and the start of training camp.

 

I had full faith about picking up a receiver in FA, but now I don't know.  I am beginning to think that it's better to have low expectations when it comes to G-man and free agency, otherwise you might get your feelings hurt. I am eagerly awaiting the draft however.

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Sometimes the only way to get a point across to people is to go to that length..otherwise they still don't get it

 

Or it's just a cheap way to sidestep a valid point that you disagree with, and scream "overreaction" when there really is none. 

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