49ers hire John Lynch as GM. Not kidding.

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Elway had experience running an Arena League team and he apparently worked every level of that organization. Experience is experience. So even Elway wasn't this raw.

Elway had a football coach for a dad. He went to Stanford, majored in Economics. You're all familiar with his NFL career. He had his name on some car dealerships as a player but I don't think he had much of anything to do with actually running them at that point. He did terminate that contract eventually in order to open dealerships in is own name later that he would, presumably, have more to do with. He was fairly active in the Arena Football League as a co-owner and an executive for the life of the league. When he came back to the Broncos it was as VP of football operations, at the request of the owner after Josh McDouche destroyed the franchise. Over time he got rid of the previous GM and absorbed his job. He has continued to tinker with the organizational structure of the franchise. He attempts to surround himself with people who cover his weaknesses and get rid of people who don't perform. He was nowhere near as raw as Lynch is now and he still has had to learn as he goes. So...yeah. I don't think Lynch compares very well to Elway. We'll see what happens.