Jim Ringo our All Pro center walked into Lombardi's office and introduced his AGENT TO Lombardi saying "my agent will negotiate my future contracts"
Ringo was one of the 1st to have an agent
Lombardi excused himself came back into the office moments later and told Ringo " take your Agent to...
I don't think you can classify what is going on in the front office as arrogance..
I do think it can be classified as the culture/philosophy that has been generated over the last several years
I think the personality of how he ran the office stated with Ted Thompson..
He only had press...
I was getting to the area in my mind I actually thought this might be fixable....and all is well
Then I herd Alex Smith talk about how KC handled the drafting of Pat Mahomes..he stated they had SEVERAL conversations of drafting Mahomes BEFORE the draft and how they was going to bring him...
I think what some may be missing is that attending these OTA's isn't EXTRA money offered to players attending.
Actually the money for attending these OTA's is PART OF THEIR SALARY
Packers have used this as a means to get players together in off season...they feel these OTA's help generate team...
I don't think IF AR comes back we have to worry about him playing at HIS level...
IF...he comes back it will be because he GOT what he wanted
If he gets what he wants then he will be motivated to prove he was RIGHT
MY take.....Rodgers is out to change the CULTURE in the Packer organization...
Well as Cool Hand Luke said..."what we have here is a failure to communicate"
That....is probably the base for this upheaval....
Bob Harlan hired Ron Wolfe and gave him full authority over the team.
When he traded for Favre the trade hinged on Favre passing a physical...Because of the removal...
I think blaming Gute for this fiasco and being arrogant is off base.
Really it isn't on Gute to be "boss"
Murphy set this structure up with him as the totally in control person who EVERYBODY answered too
MLF doesn't answer to Gute....he answers to Murphy
Gute answers to Murphy
Ball answers...
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