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Originally Posted by cyseymour
I see. So the best GM's are the ones who draft players with certain measurables in order to prevent themselves from getting fired in case the pick is a bust.
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I think there's plenty of truth to that, though "best" is completely subjective. I think a lot of coaches and GMs do the safe, thing.. make the safe pick, put the safer player in their lineup, especially if everyone else in the organization backs the move. They're humans who want to keep their jobs. Pete Carroll has always bugged the crap out of me, but he showed some serious guts giving the job to Wilson over Flynn who'd just received a huge contract (still no idea why they ever gave him that deal). Had he given Flynn the job and Flynn floundered, he would have at least had backing of the GM and owner with that decision.. Wilson was a total roll of the dice. I love that some guys have guts to do what everyone else tells them is wrong, especially when they can pull it off.. and in the process chip away at old paradigms.