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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The Packers had 20+ guys on IR in 2010, yet still won the Super Bowl.
Yes, Aaron Rodgers was amazing that season (and since) but he couldn't have won the Super Bowl without some modicum of talent surrounding him. The Packers rarely screw up their drafts or let productive players leave via free agency.
I can understand your concerns about Rodgers but outside of him, the rest of the team is solid. If you don't give that credit to him, who deserves the credit?
Career highlights:
- Named director of pro personnel on May 23, 2012. First joined Packers in 2004 as a pro personnel assistant (2004-2008); named assistant director of pro personnel (2008-2010) and assistant director of player personnel (2011).
- Currently the youngest director of pro personnel in the NFL.
- The son of former Packers general manager Ron Wolf, Eliot’s scouting career unofficially began at age 10, when he joined his father in film sessions at Lambeau Field.
- Has worked 20 consecutive Packers drafts (since 1993) and 20 consecutive NFL scouting combines.
- Graduated from the University of Miami (Fla.) in December 2003 after just 3½ years in order to begin his NFL career before the 2004 NFL Draft.
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You realize that your bolded section makes my point, right?
He was 10....
ten when he worked his first of '20 consecutive NFL drafts'. He didn't 'work' shit.
And as for about everything else on that resume, you could say the exact same thing about Pioli when Pioli came here. His Patriots teams were winning with WRs playing CB and everyone thought that made him some kind of genius.
No, he just had Tom Brady.
And I'm fairly certain that Pioli was still more instrumental in constructing those Patriots teams than this kid was in building a SB winner when he was 25 and Ron Wolf was running the show. You really think Mike McCarthy is going to let this guy tell him who to draft?
C'mon - Eliot Wolf is a legacy kid that has more red flags around him than Pioli
ever had.