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Panthers GM candidate Ed Dodds now available for hire

Jeremy Igo

By Jeremy Igo,
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I still dont have a true favorite out the 58 interviews.

I do feel with this current team, Ireland would be the best fit. Not going to lie, his Phins run was worse than Herniays' here.  

Love to add Alfo form Cleveland too, need fresh ideas and I bet hes got plenty of them.

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6 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Would absolutely love to get Dodds, though I'd also be happy with Adam Peters.

Peters is my #1, but Dodds is a close #2.  If we get either one I’d be ecstatic.  I have a feeling Eway is going to scoop up Peters for the Broncos 

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46 minutes ago, PandaMan said:

Peters is my #1, but Dodds is a close #2.  If we get either one I’d be ecstatic.  I have a feeling Eway is going to scoop up Peters for the Broncos 

The Broncos never requested to interview him.

They've interviewed five other guys, and word is they're going to decide between the ones they've already interviewed.

Couldn't tell you why, but they didn't ask him.

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2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

The Broncos never requested to interview him.

They've interviewed five other guys, and word is they're going to decide between the ones they've already interviewed.

Couldn't tell you why, but they didn't ask him.

Really weird.  Didn’t Elway give him a lot of props for helping build the 2015 SB team?  I could’ve sworn I saw that somewhere, but now I can’t find it.  

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4 minutes ago, PandaMan said:

Really weird.  Didn’t Elway give him a lot of props for helping build the 2015 SB team?  I could’ve sworn I saw that somewhere, but now I can’t find it.  

Elway gave him loads of credit, even said he probably would have blocked the request if it had been anybody other than John Lynch asking.

For his part, Lynch and pretty much everybody else connected to, covering or cheering for the 49ers says they don't want to lose him.

There's been some speculation that he's favored for the Panthers job. Only thing I can figure is maybe that chatter scared other suitors away. 

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From an article by Zak Keefer in The Athletic, here's Ed Dodds in a nutshell (edited for language)

He was pissed off, tired of all the attention they were getting, tired of hearing how good they were and how great they were gonna be. The room needed some truth, some leveling, so eight days after it ended, emotions still raw, weeks and months of grueling work ahead, the damn Patriots punching another trip to the Super Bowl on the TV screen a few feet away, Ed Dodds gathered his scouts inside a bar in Mobile, Ala., and gave it to them.

“We ain’t done (bleep) yet,” the Colts assistant general manager told them. “We won a (bleep)ing wild-card game.”

You don’t get trophies for AFC wild-card games, and Dodds didn’t come to Indianapolis to win wild-card games. But two years in, anyone could see: the rebuild was working. The Colts had flipped 4-12 into 10-6, won a playoff game and had a roster stocked with young talent. The pundits couldn’t help but praise. The Colts were coming. Soon.

But Dodds didn’t wanna hear it, and didn’t want his scouts thinking it. If there’s anything that scares the hell out of him, it’s complacency. He fears it. Fights it. To him it just felt like it needed to be said, then and there, the night before they went to work at the Senior Bowl in late January, the unofficial kickoff to an exhaustive three-month stretch that would ready the entire personnel department for that spring’s draft. So he lit into them.

“I just felt like everyone was jacked, we’re on this win streak, and I’m kinda like, what the (bleep) does it matter?” Dodds said a few months later. “If we don’t go to a Super Bowl, so what? A couple of injuries, bomb a couple of draft picks, no one in the pipeline to replace the players you lost? You gotta be relentless. You can’t stop. I don’t.”

Basically, he called a meeting of his scouting staff just so he could yell at them and tell them.it wasn't good enough.

There's also this tidbit from the same source about working for Al Davis...

Dodds has done this for a decade and a half, so he knows. He cut his teeth in Oakland, learning from Al Davis that B.S. won’t get you far in this league.

“With Mr. Davis, you learned quickly,” Dodds explains, “that if you don’t know the answer to a question, just say you don’t know and take your ass-beating right there. Don’t guess.”

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Just now, Beerfacedlegend said:

Well there’s that now hopefully the 49ers guy 

Adam Peters would be a great choice.

If you like "psycho" though, you might wanna check out the excerpts about Ed Dodds posted above.

Dodds is one of those guys you could stand next to for 30 seconds and walk away feeling like a lazy sack of sh-t.

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