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If Cleveland can hire Lombardo, why not? he is the most knowledgeable football man on TV. I think he would be good.
 
HO - LEE - CRAP ... First Wade Phillips for Coach, now Mike "stick-your-foot-in-the-ground" Mayock for GM? AYFKM?
 
I would be down with that. I can't watch this team in a state like this and we need someone to take control.
 
What about that mean coach from The Waterboy while we are at it. Maybe the coach of the Iceland hockey team in Mighty Ducks.

Oooooorrrrrrr we wait until the end of the season to see if there will be a need for a new GM.
 
Mike Lombardi was a former GM of the Raiders. He had experience before being hired by Cleveland. Mayock, as much as I like the guy, has no experience. If you want him to help pick players hire him as a scout, not as a GM...there's more to being a GM, a lot of different things to juggle, than just picking players.
 
Can he lecture to us like he does on tv?
 
Omar Kahn is the guy we need, not some blowhard tv host.
 
RayStinkle said:
If Cleveland can hire Lombardo, why not? he is the most knowledgeable football man on TV. I think he would be good.
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Lombardi was an executive with San Francisco, Cleveland, St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia, and Oakland BEFORE going into broadcast... Mike Mayock was drafted in the TENTH round by Pittsburg, cut, played one game for the Toronto Argonauts, cut, and then played two seasons for the Giants.
 
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Well, if we're going that route I'd prefer Kiper. Seriously. Nothing to do with personnel. The franchise desperately needs a likable fan friendly approach, somebody who can step in front of a microphone and connect with the fans, even if it's partially a running joke. I don't know how many times I've complained about Jeff Ireland and his stone faced approach, accompanied by few words. When I was a kid we had the eccentric and bombastic Joe Thomas at general manager, followed by beach boy Bobby Beathard and the charismatic grin. Everybody was memorable. Even Joe Robbie was a howl, ranting against the city commission seemingly a half dozen times per year. You could see the steam.

Lately we've had a series of guys who can't communicate and lack any threat of warmth. How is that going to translate to ticket sales or fan interest or benefit of a doubt?

It shouldn't be impossible to find somebody with bare minimal competence in front of a microphone. Granted, everybody has strengths and weaknesses. But it's not automatically a terrifying experience, as someone else described in a thread today. I've done it countless times, primarily at handicapping seminars and some radio events in Las Vegas. I'm confident in that setting. The aspect I didn't like was the aftermath. If you perform well then people in the audience like to approach when you're finished. All of a sudden there are phone numbers and email addresses, everybody wanting to be your pal and discuss angles they specialize in. No thanks. I like to wander away anonymously and be free to spill things on my shirt, without anyone noticing or caring.
 
Screw all those guys, give me Omar or Armando.....if they fail we can run them out of Miami
 
I love Mikes player evals and his people skills. Where he would struggle would be managing a teams cap. If however he had someone like Dawn at his side then maybe just maybe it could work.
 
IMO Mayock would be good at picking players but don't know about the other duties of a GM. Besides I don't think he would want the gig.
 
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