(10-18-2019, 04:50 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: Not sure why some here is so quick to proclaim he knows nothing about football.

Likely because they know little to nothing themselves.
Especially about how much a man knows that they don't know personally or see how involved he is behind the scenes.

I wonder how much Stephen Jones knew before Jerry brought him along in the office.
Or Johnathan Kraft...

or... well, you get the point.

Fans gonna fan.

EVP likely doesn't have much hands on decisions with the actual football part of the team, rather resides over making sure the front office has the right guys.
With his analytics background, I don't know why he couldn't look around the league and find the right guy to replace Caldwell so that the EVP doesn't have to play babysitter to football decisions.

Like Coughlin was brought in to make sure Caldwell was doing his job right, or whatever (or perhaps, still isn't... top 5 RB that has an old school style, although playing much better for sure, extending Blake, handling of Yan and Ramsey situations, etc.)

I don't hate the idea.
Don't really care who the EVP is really. Want a competent GM and HC and a good roster... I don't think Tony Khan being EVP will hinder that (and to those that say he doesn't know anything about football, I'm sure he knows 100 times as much as us message board folks)

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