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  • January 19, 2017 at 9:16 pm #63927
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    49ers may have trouble hiring a G.M.

    Mike Florio

    49ers may have trouble hiring a G.M.

    As the 49ers continue to look for a G.M. who, as a practical matter, will be working for coach Kyle Shanahan, the 49ers could be facing a different set of challenges.

    If control over the roster was promised to Shanahan in order to get him to take the job at a time when everyone else had bailed, the current employers of the candidates for the G.M. job could block the move, since it wouldn’t entail the typical powers of a G.M.

    Throw in the perception/reality that Paraag Marathe will be involved in football operations (and possibly negotiating contracts), and more of the finalists for the G.M. job could decide to pass, in the same way that Packers executive Eliot Wolf has done.

    For Wolf, why swap the opportunity to eventually (if not sooner) run the Packers’ football operation for being a third spoke in the wheel at best, a glorified scout at worst?

    The other candidates will need to ask themselves those same questions, before, during, and/or after their upcoming interviews with the presumed next coach of the team. And it will be important to know whether the G.M. will indeed have final say, since that aspect of the job could be the thing that ultimately keeps the 49ers from getting the guy they want.

    January 19, 2017 at 9:28 pm #63928
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    hmmm. i wonder if demoff heard by way of his dad that shanny wanted final say? and that was another reason to just go ahead and sign mcvay?

    and who does get final say? has that ever been written about?

    or maybe that rumor about another football executive coming on board will shed some light on that.

    January 19, 2017 at 9:45 pm #63930
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    InvaderRam wrote:

    hmmm. i wonder if demoff heard by way of his dad that shanny wanted final say? and that was another reason to just go ahead and sign mcvay?

    and who does get final say? has that ever been written about?

    or maybe that rumor about another football executive coming on board will shed some light on that.

    Fisher had final say. Carroll has final say. Florio’s assumption that a GM is “over” the coach is not true. Some places it works that way, some places it doesn’t.

    With the Rams, though, what we have is the opposite of Fisher. That was experienced coach, green GM. Now it’s the other way around. So I figure it will probably work differently.

    January 19, 2017 at 10:29 pm #63933
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    zn wrote:

    Fisher had final say. Carroll has final say. Florio’s assumption that a GM is “over” the coach is not true. Some places it works that way, some places it doesn’t.

    i realize that, but in shanny’s case, they may not have been willing to do that.

    January 20, 2017 at 12:13 am #63939
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    InvaderRam wrote:

    i realize that, but in shanny’s case, they may not have been willing to do that

    Did I read you wrong? Mea culpa.

    I blame Bulger.

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