Sam Bradford Trade Shows That Chip Kelly Is Drowning in the GM Deep End

March 11, 2015   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Coaching a successful major college program does not qualify you to be an NFL personnel executive.
In fact, there are few high-profile football jobs that leave a person less qualified to be an NFL personnel executive than coaching a successful college program.
General managers and other top NFL decision makers spend years working their way up through personnel, scouting or cap-management departments. The head coaches who gain personnel control usually climb through the coordinator ranks – where they deal regularly with general managers and administrators and learn the fundamentals of roster assembly – and almost always keep an experienced personnel director around as a combination logistical coordinator/consigliore.
The person with final say on major roster moves at most NFL franchises has spent years at the professional level learning the ballet among players, agents, competitors, and the holders of 32 separate sets of salary cap purse strings. There are mes...

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