I see some people wanting to hire a VP of Football Operations.  I oppose that approach.  If the VP has no power, then there's no point.  Are we giving him power to over-rule the GM on personnel moves?  If so, you are removing accountability from the GM.  The GM can blame the VP for failures.  The VP can blame the GM and no one knows who is responsible.  We saw this with Coughlin and Caldwell.  Another option would be to give the VP the power to "advise" but not over-rule the GM.  I don't like that either.  When your boss advises you to do something, most will do it.  At a minimum, you are being pressured into doing something that you don't want to do.  You are still removing accountability from the GM.  I think you try to find the best football mind you can to be your GM and then let him do his job.  If he doesn't, you know who to hold accountable and move on to someone else.

I also like the GM picking the head coach.  First, I think the GM is actually more important than the coach, so you want the best one possible.  Good GM candidates will want the power to pick their coach.  Second, it's again about accountability.  He can't say "I picked good players but the coaches are incompetent" if he is the one who picked the coach.

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