It is not a numbers game. Hiring a coach has got to feel right. Woody needs football advisors, not personnel executives. Woody knows very little about football players, football management, and management in general. And he appears to have learned very little since buying the Jets. He is a silver spoon millionaire. Nothing more.
eh, why not? Teams surprise every year. And you're the type guy who pisses in his own cornflakes, right?
exactly. both casserly and wolf have personnel and gm experience, as well as a track record. wolf used to work for the jets, before green bay. search firm is wrong approach. woody is not hiring for the business side of the operation.
Anyone else find it odd that this goof makes these horrible threads but doesnt respond to any of em? Let the troll starve.
Actually, this is not all that bad of a thread. I've been kind of waiting to see if someone would raise the question. On that note.... I think Woody bringing in Casserly and Wolf was exactly what he should have done in light of the fact that he, Woody himself, knows nothing really about football. As well, most of the individuals that are high up in his organization are from that same cloth. They are all business folks etc... He NEEDED someone with football knowledge doing the looking. Say what you want about personal feelings toward Casserly, he still has been in football a long time as is Wolf. To clarify for some of you...I've NEVER heard of a professional sports coach search firm. An employee search firm is utilized to sort through thousands of applicants for an individual job. There are different types of search firms for various industries. You have technical search firms, such as Robert Half, as well as things like Kelly Temps for admin type people. Hell, you have The Ladders for people who are of the six figure variety. As stated before...I have NEVER heard of a search firm that specializes in professional sports coaches. The various search firms have in house experts who are well versed in whatever job type they are looking for. This is how they weed out the undesirable resumes. They are themselves trained in whatever discipline they are searching for. To the best of my knowledge there is no group of former coaches/GM's out there running an organization that finds other GM/Coaches. So what you had with the Idzik hiring was an executive search firm that is used to finding executives. And as we found out quickly, a good executive does not necessarily translate into a good football guy. It TAKES football guys to find other football guys. Having said all that, I like the direction Woody is taking...if we can weed through all the media bullshit about various candidates, i.e. Marrone et al...we'll see if this approach works. With a guy like Wolf having input we SHOULD come out the end of this with a solid group of people. The key here is to not let Woody and/or Casserly and/or Wolf pick a good ole' boy or family friend. I want them, all three, to sit down, evaluate and agree on a GM. A GM that fits what Woody wants done and satisfies Casserly's and Wolf's "smell" test from a football standpoint. THEN let that GM go to work. Hope this explanation helps.
The outside football search committee didn't work for us. They had no skin in the game at least we have some real die in the wool football people handling it. That search committee was an accounting firm and that is exactly At least we have some die in the wool GM's handling the search this time. I have no idea what Woody was thinking with that last one. They told him to hire an accountant just like the one he had just fired in Tannenbaum. But regardless I'm expecting Woody to blow it again because now he has twice the amount to mess up. He has to get a GM and coach. We need to stay away from accountants and get a solid personnel guy in the GM position.
