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Originally Posted by The Bad Guy
So what I can gather is that you think principals of schools do nothing? It's the same principle. He organizes everything, analyzes numbers, communicates with staffs, checks productivity and then reports to his boss.
He has a network of scouts and the "Patriot way" has always been one one leaves they have his replacement ready in the front office/scouting/coaching.
This team is in bad shape, but it's not going to completely tank drafts if Phil Emery leaves, contrary to what you and Boss Chief want to keep preaching.
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I'm not saying principals of schools do nothing. I'm saying that scouting directors do a shitload more than principals. They do a shitload more than most managers. Diminishing their job to just some organizational role where they deploy scouts and just monitor results is beyond laughable. They are the face of the scouting organization and they have to be very good scouts themselves. Emery's job is to absorb a MASSIVE amount of scouting information and he has to be the one that tells Pioli the guys to pay attention to.
By the way, the Patriots were amazing at drafting. Lost Thomas Dimitroff. Had a few really shitty drafts. Brought Nick Caserio in in 2008. All of a sudden, from 2009 on, they become great at drafting again. But Dimitroff didn't do anything in New England, which is why he doesn't know what he's doing in Atlanta. Because nothing he did in New England prepared him for the GM job. That's probably the reason why Emery is the favorite to be the GM. Because Dimitroff and Emery, from having done nothing for their teams, are for some weird reason qualified to starting running an organization.