Ed, The Lackeys, the Board and Control

[AGreen2AJones]

Why won't they release by vote results of board elections? Why is that data hidden? I have never seen my ballot with multiple shares.

That time has come.
The end of the 2025 collapse should have been enough.

Instead of treating that collapse as a reason for major change, new President and CEO Ed Policy went in the opposite direction.

Policy gave multi-year contract extensions for Matt LaFleur, Brian Gutekunst and Russ Ball. Policy later said it had "never been clearer" to him that Green Bay had the right people in the right positions.

We have every right to question that judgment.

Now the 2026 Packers have started 1-2, including an embarrassing 35-14 home loss to Atlanta in which Green Bay was outgained 498-328 and allowed 27 consecutive points after taking an early lead. It is the first 1-2 start of LaFleur's tenure.

That means the Packers' Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
And this is where Green Bay is different from every other NFL franchise.
The Packers are the only publicly owned franchise in the NFL. More than 539,000 shareholder accounts own roughly 5.2 million shares. Those shareholders elect the members of the Packers Board of Directors. The Board, in turn, selects the Executive Committee that governs the corporation. According to the Packers themselves, that Executive Committee establishes broad organizational policy and monitors management's performance.

The Green Bay Packers' ownership structure was created precisely because this franchise belongs to something larger than one billionaire owner. The team belongs, in its unusual corporate sense, to its shareholders and community.

That should mean something beyond receiving a piece of paper, attending the annual meeting and buying shareholder merchandise.
It should mean accountability.

It should mean shareholders actually researching the people running for the Board.
It should mean asking incumbent directors what they have done to hold executive leadership accountable.

It should mean paying attention to proxy ballots instead of automatically approving every recommended candidate.

And when shareholders believe the direction of the franchise needs to change, they should use every legitimate mechanism available to them to make their concerns impossible for the Board to ignore.

Other NFL fan bases can complain about their owner.

Packers shareholders can vote for the people responsible for overseeing theirs.
The Executive Board:
Edward R. Policy — President
Chairman, President and CEO.
First elected by shareholders to the Board in 2025.

Michael D. Simmer — Vice President & Lead Director
Elevated to Vice President and Lead Director in 2024.

Karl A. Schmidt — Treasurer
President/CEO of Belmark Inc., the Wisconsin packaging/label company.
First elected to Packers Board in 2017.
Added to Executive Committee in 2021.
Became Treasurer in 2024.

Daniel T. Ariens — Secretary
Chairman/CEO of Ariens Company/AriensCo, the Wisconsin outdoor-power-equipment manufacturer.
One of the longest-tenured members of the current Board and Executive Committee.
Has served as corporate Secretary for many years; he was already in that position well before the current leadership transition.
Chaired the personnel/compensation function and was vice-chair of the committee that selected Ed Policy.

Marcia M. Anderson — Member
Elected Packers director in 2016.
Joined the Executive Committee in 2021.

Donald J. "D.J." Long Jr. — Member
Former CEO/owner of Century Drill & Tool.
First elected to the Packers Board in 2012.
Added to the Executive Committee in 2019.

Michael J. Barber — Member
Longtime General Electric executive; formerly GE's Chief Diversity Officer with extensive engineering, operations and product-development experience.
Elected to Packers Board in 2021.
Added to Executive Committee in 2024.


All good old boys and girls. They keep shifting roles to justify their existence and the sheep below keep eating it up. How did Ed emerge from all of this as well?? A couple ex-Packers but a bunch of judges, attorneys and other jackholes with an in.

Michael Alexander
Janeau E. “Jan” Allman
Timothy M. Bergstrom
Ave M. Bie
Katherine “Kate” K. Burgess
LeRoy Butler
Laurie A. Butz
James B. Christensen
Casey Cuene
Michael E. Daniels
Valerie Daniels-Carter
Robyn Y. Davis
Craig S. ****man
Andrew E. Farah
Philip B. Flynn
Robin L. Gilson
Michael J. Haddad
William L. “Bill” Jartz
Jeffrey A. Joerres
Wilson R. Jones
Mark A. Kasper
David Kohler
George E. Koonce Jr.
Dexter E. McNabb
Laurie A. Radke
Diane L. Roundy
Mark B. Rourke
John A. Schmidt
Sachin M. Shivaram
Mark D. Skogen
Christopher S. Stiles
Harry F. Sydney III
Glen E. Tellock
Dr. Elizabeth “Betsy” R. Trowbridge
Kurt R. Voss
Robert J. Weyers
Christine E. “Chris” Woleske
Hon. John P. Zakowski

 

[El Guapo]

I'll sniff the cheese here. What is your point?? Everyone should be fired for incompetence???

Ed Policy is effectively our "owner" now. The board doesn't really do much anymore. The Packers president runs the show like an owner. Policy had three options as he became the new president:
1) Immediately fire Gutekunst and LaFleur
2) Do nothing
3) Issue extensions to Gutekunst and LaFleur

I think that we all agree that Option #1 wasn't realistic at the time. Option #2 was viable, as Policy could have given himself more time to evaluate two of his top men. Instead he chose to extend their contracts. There was certainly debate about whether extending LaFleur was the right move, but poll 1,000 fans/media and you'd get 500 votes for each option.

I don't understand your rant on the board. Transparency? Sure, I'd like to see the final votes too. It isn't keeping me from falling asleep at night though.

 

[AGreen2AJones]

I'll sniff the cheese here. What is your point?? Everyone should be fired for incompetence???

Ed Policy is effectively our "owner" now. The board doesn't really do much anymore. The Packers president runs the show like an owner. Policy had three options as he became the new president:
1) Immediately fire Gutekunst and LaFleur
2) Do nothing
3) Issue extensions to Gutekunst and LaFleur

I think that we all agree that Option #1 wasn't realistic at the time. Option #2 was viable, as Policy could have given himself more time to evaluate two of his top men. Instead he chose to extend their contracts. There was certainly debate about whether extending LaFleur was the right move, but poll 1,000 fans/media and you'd get 500 votes for each option.

I don't understand your rant on the board. Transparency? Sure, I'd like to see the final votes too. It isn't keeping me from falling asleep at night though.

The point is Ed isn't the owner. The board members more or less are...elected via the shareholders. Nobody actually does exercise this besides a tight knit group in wisconsin. Realtors galore etc. corrupt as hell. Let's go after the board members and question their knowledge of football, business and why they supported Ed extending Matt. If they can't articulate it they should be immediately voted out at first chance.

If the executive members don't respond or Ed does to the board they should immediately be done. This nepotism, good old boys country club network doesn't stand. Ed doesn't own the team. Period.

 

[Heyjoe4]

Why won't they release by vote results of board elections? Why is that data hidden? I have never seen my ballot with multiple shares.

That time has come.
The end of the 2025 collapse should have been enough.

Instead of treating that collapse as a reason for major change, new President and CEO Ed Policy went in the opposite direction.

Policy gave multi-year contract extensions for Matt LaFleur, Brian Gutekunst and Russ Ball. Policy later said it had "never been clearer" to him that Green Bay had the right people in the right positions.

We have every right to question that judgment.

Now the 2026 Packers have started 1-2, including an embarrassing 35-14 home loss to Atlanta in which Green Bay was outgained 498-328 and allowed 27 consecutive points after taking an early lead. It is the first 1-2 start of LaFleur's tenure.

That means the Packers' Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
And this is where Green Bay is different from every other NFL franchise.
The Packers are the only publicly owned franchise in the NFL. More than 539,000 shareholder accounts own roughly 5.2 million shares. Those shareholders elect the members of the Packers Board of Directors. The Board, in turn, selects the Executive Committee that governs the corporation. According to the Packers themselves, that Executive Committee establishes broad organizational policy and monitors management's performance.

The Green Bay Packers' ownership structure was created precisely because this franchise belongs to something larger than one billionaire owner. The team belongs, in its unusual corporate sense, to its shareholders and community.

That should mean something beyond receiving a piece of paper, attending the annual meeting and buying shareholder merchandise.
It should mean accountability.

It should mean shareholders actually researching the people running for the Board.
It should mean asking incumbent directors what they have done to hold executive leadership accountable.

It should mean paying attention to proxy ballots instead of automatically approving every recommended candidate.

And when shareholders believe the direction of the franchise needs to change, they should use every legitimate mechanism available to them to make their concerns impossible for the Board to ignore.

Other NFL fan bases can complain about their owner.

Packers shareholders can vote for the people responsible for overseeing theirs.
The Executive Board:
Edward R. Policy — President
Chairman, President and CEO.
First elected by shareholders to the Board in 2025.

Michael D. Simmer — Vice President & Lead Director
Elevated to Vice President and Lead Director in 2024.

Karl A. Schmidt — Treasurer
President/CEO of Belmark Inc., the Wisconsin packaging/label company.
First elected to Packers Board in 2017.
Added to Executive Committee in 2021.
Became Treasurer in 2024.

Daniel T. Ariens — Secretary
Chairman/CEO of Ariens Company/AriensCo, the Wisconsin outdoor-power-equipment manufacturer.
One of the longest-tenured members of the current Board and Executive Committee.
Has served as corporate Secretary for many years; he was already in that position well before the current leadership transition.
Chaired the personnel/compensation function and was vice-chair of the committee that selected Ed Policy.

Marcia M. Anderson — Member
Elected Packers director in 2016.
Joined the Executive Committee in 2021.

Donald J. "D.J." Long Jr. — Member
Former CEO/owner of Century Drill & Tool.
First elected to the Packers Board in 2012.
Added to the Executive Committee in 2019.

Michael J. Barber — Member
Longtime General Electric executive; formerly GE's Chief Diversity Officer with extensive engineering, operations and product-development experience.
Elected to Packers Board in 2021.
Added to Executive Committee in 2024.


All good old boys and girls. They keep shifting roles to justify their existence and the sheep below keep eating it up. How did Ed emerge from all of this as well?? A couple ex-Packers but a bunch of judges, attorneys and other jackholes with an in.

Michael Alexander
Janeau E. “Jan” Allman
Timothy M. Bergstrom
Ave M. Bie
Katherine “Kate” K. Burgess
LeRoy Butler
Laurie A. Butz
James B. Christensen
Casey Cuene
Michael E. Daniels
Valerie Daniels-Carter
Robyn Y. Davis
Craig S. ****man
Andrew E. Farah
Philip B. Flynn
Robin L. Gilson
Michael J. Haddad
William L. “Bill” Jartz
Jeffrey A. Joerres
Wilson R. Jones
Mark A. Kasper
David Kohler
George E. Koonce Jr.
Dexter E. McNabb
Laurie A. Radke
Diane L. Roundy
Mark B. Rourke
John A. Schmidt
Sachin M. Shivaram
Mark D. Skogen
Christopher S. Stiles
Harry F. Sydney III
Glen E. Tellock
Dr. Elizabeth “Betsy” R. Trowbridge
Kurt R. Voss
Robert J. Weyers
Christine E. “Chris” Woleske
Hon. John P. Zakowski

Thanks for taking the time to pull this together AGreen. As a public company I'm a little surprised the Packer don't have to release the results of how board members voted. And it also seems like these voting sessions should be open.

And while the Packers are technically a public company, the shareholder participation, I'm guessing, is low (although the annual meeting seems well-attended). So the board has all the power.

As shareholders (Im not), there is a right to question decisions, like Policy's decision to rubber stamp extensions for gluten and MLF. I've never been a CEO, but close. Hindsight is perfect, but it sure seems like Policy should have given those discussions some time to make, and to involve the shareholders.

Shareholders can't interfere much with what the CEO does. But c'mon, that's a huge decision and as far as i know, he didn't do any external searches for candidates. It was an easy call to make, keep everyone in place. Sadly, it's backfired.

 

[Heyjoe4]

The point is Ed isn't the owner. The board members more or less are...elected via the shareholders. Nobody actually does exercise this besides a tight knit group in wisconsin. Realtors galore etc. corrupt as hell. Let's go after the board members and question their knowledge of football, business and why they supported Ed extending Matt. If they can't articulate it they should be immediately voted out at first chance.

If the executive members don't respond or Ed does to the board they should immediately be done. This nepotism, good old boys country club network doesn't stand. Ed doesn't own the team. Period.

That's a good catch AGreen. Ed works for the board and he doesn't have final say. So I'm guessing all these directors in the good-ol-boy network, call the shots and that process isn't visible. This isn't any different to how other public companies work. The GB BOD decide what, if any, meeting minutes are released.

Finally, I don't know if extending gluten and MLF was a good idea. And we don't even know the contract details. Seems like that should also be put before the shareholders for comment.

Well we're in a deep hole now and the digging is no way near over. Long days, esp Sundays, ahead.

 

[Pugger]

The point is Ed isn't the owner. The board members more or less are...elected via the shareholders. Nobody actually does exercise this besides a tight knit group in wisconsin. Realtors galore etc. corrupt as hell. Let's go after the board members and question their knowledge of football, business and why they supported Ed extending Matt. If they can't articulate it they should be immediately voted out at first chance.

If the executive members don't respond or Ed does to the board they should immediately be done. This nepotism, good old boys country club network doesn't stand. Ed doesn't own the team. Period.

You must not be a shareholder. I've been a shareholder since the mid-80s. When you vote on the BOD it isn't like a political election. The slate of candidates run unopposed and are made up of successful business people from throughout the state. These folks then select 7 of them to the Executive Committee. The EC selects the team president to represent the team at league meetings. Back before Ron Wolf was our GM the EC often stuck their noses into football operations and the team on the field struggled. Even though Murphy was a former player IMO it was a mistake for him to restructure the hierarchy and inserted himself into football operations. I hope the chain of command goes back to the EC stays out of football operations and GM runs the team sooner rather than later..

 

[mradtke66]

Even though Murphy was a former player IMO it was a mistake for him to restructure the hierarchy and inserted himself into football operations. I hope the chain of command goes back to the EC stays out of football operations and GM runs the team sooner rather than later..

I understand why Murphy (and now Policy) ended up in this weird 3-legged-hierarchy. There were reports of communication and other breakdowns near the end of TT's run with us. The intention is to have the president in the room to make sure those things don't happen again. Just being present should allow him to see issue or infighting or whatever the hell happened as it happens. And then he can fix it.

I don't think either way is necessarily better. I would suspect that whenever MLF's time with us over and Gute (or his eventual replacement) will resume the authority to hire and fire the coach in a more traditional sense.

 

[AGreen2AJones]

You must not be a shareholder. I've been a shareholder since the mid-80s. When you vote on the BOD it isn't like a political election. The slate of candidates run unopposed and are made up of successful business people from throughout the state. These folks then select 7 of them to the Executive Committee. The EC selects the team president to represent the team at league meetings. Back before Ron Wolf was our GM the EC often stuck their noses into football operations and the team on the field struggled. Even though Murphy was a former player IMO it was a mistake for him to restructure the hierarchy and inserted himself into football operations. I hope the chain of command goes back to the EC stays out of football operations and GM runs the team sooner rather than later..

I'm a shareholder. And it seems like you are part of the problem. You enjoy the good old boys of Wisconsin

 

[milani]

The point is Ed isn't the owner. The board members more or less are...elected via the shareholders. Nobody actually does exercise this besides a tight knit group in wisconsin. Realtors galore etc. corrupt as hell. Let's go after the board members and question their knowledge of football, business and why they supported Ed extending Matt. If they can't articulate it they should be immediately voted out at first chance.

If the executive members don't respond or Ed does to the board they should immediately be done. This nepotism, good old boys country club network doesn't stand. Ed doesn't own the team. Period.

Perfect name for the position: Policy. Sounds like the guy who did All-State insurance commercials back in the day.

 

[tynimiller]

I'm a shareholder. And it seems like you are part of the problem. You enjoy the good old boys of Wisconsin

Do you ever realize the unpleasant nature you bring into conversations brother? Disagreement doesn't need to become this sweeping broad attack back at someone...Pugger didn't get rude at all and literally just espoused some context and then presented his thoughts in closing.

I love your perspective often, however brother, let's work on the delivery if you can my man. I actually think better conversations and threads will occur because of it.

I'm not batting a 1,000 myself so don't take this as anything other than a respectful nudge man.


(edited to add) I've re-read the entire thread...I think I applied more emotion to your response here based off of the mood of the OP and rest of the thread. So for whatever stretch or inflation I may have applied apologies. It perhaps wasn't as unpleasant as I read it at first.*

 

[Pugger]

I'm a shareholder. And it seems like you are part of the problem. You enjoy the good old boys of Wisconsin

You missed the gist of my post. My main point was the EC should NOT be involved in football operations. Right after Lombardi was hired the team president presented Vince with a list of things he and the EC wanted him to do. Lombardi firmly told him in so many words to butt out. When Bob Harlan became team president he hired Ron Wolf and gave him full autonomy over football operations and the team's fortunes thrived. The EC and BOD should run the business end and let football people run the team. Policy should have zero input.

 

[Heyjoe4]

You must not be a shareholder. I've been a shareholder since the mid-80s. When you vote on the BOD it isn't like a political election. The slate of candidates run unopposed and are made up of successful business people from throughout the state. These folks then select 7 of them to the Executive Committee. The EC selects the team president to represent the team at league meetings. Back before Ron Wolf was our GM the EC often stuck their noses into football operations and the team on the field struggled. Even though Murphy was a former player IMO it was a mistake for him to restructure the hierarchy and inserted himself into football operations. I hope the chain of command goes back to the EC stays out of football operations and GM runs the team sooner rather than later..

Thanks Pugger. Do you recall who Wolf and TT reported to, the president or the HC.

I seem to recall a time when the GM reported to the HC, and the HC reported to the president. I think that's better than the org structure Murphy used with the GM, HC, and Director of Operations reporting directly to Murphy.

 

[Heyjoe4]

You missed the gist of my post. My main point was the EC should NOT be involved in football operations. Right after Lombardi was hired the team president presented Vince with a list of things he and the EC wanted him to do. Lombardi firmly told him in so many words to butt out. When Bob Harlan became team president he hired Ron Wolf and gave him full autonomy over football operations and the team's fortunes thrived. The EC and BOD should run the business end and let football people run the team. Policy should have zero input.

Agreed. History shows that a president or EC getting involved in football operations and planning does more harm than good. Worst examples are Al Davis and Jerry Jones. Harlan/Wolf is the best example. Harlan had complete faith that Wolf could get the job done, and Harlan stayed out of his way.

 

[Heyjoe4]

I understand why Murphy (and now Policy) ended up in this weird 3-legged-hierarchy. There were reports of communication and other breakdowns near the end of TT's run with us. The intention is to have the president in the room to make sure those things don't happen again. Just being present should allow him to see issue or infighting or whatever the hell happened as it happens. And then he can fix it.

I don't think either way is necessarily better. I would suspect that whenever MLF's time with us over and Gute (or his eventual replacement) will resume the authority to hire and fire the coach in a more traditional sense.

Well said. The GM should have control over all football-related activities, and the HC. should report to the GM. Murphy changed that. The result is that Gluten and MLF are in charge of their "silos" and do not necessarily agree on issues.

I liked the Harlan/Wolf and TT organization structure.

 

[Pugger]

The point is Ed isn't the owner. The board members more or less are...elected via the shareholders. Nobody actually does exercise this besides a tight knit group in wisconsin. Realtors galore etc. corrupt as hell. Let's go after the board members and question their knowledge of football, business and why they supported Ed extending Matt. If they can't articulate it they should be immediately voted out at first chance.

If the executive members don't respond or Ed does to the board they should immediately be done. This nepotism, good old boys country club network doesn't stand. Ed doesn't own the team. Period.

How do you know the EC weren't involved with the decision to extend Gute and MLF? Policy represents the EC, BOD and we shareholders at team meetings. It appears to me your beef with the EC is they extended MLF and you are railing against it. You seem to have no use for the EC being involved in hiring and firing coaches. They shouldn't. That should be up to the GM. But the EC or Policy should be involved in hiring the GM.

 

[Pugger]

Agreed. History shows that a president or EC getting involved in football operations and planning does more harm than good. Worst examples are Al Davis and Jerry Jones. Harlan/Wolf is the best example. Harlan had complete faith that Wolf could get the job done, and Harlan stayed out of his way.

Yes. I hope we can go back to the days when the team president and EC stay out of football operations.

 

[Pugger]

Thanks Pugger. Do you recall who Wolf and TT reported to, the president or the HC.

I seem to recall a time when the GM reported to the HC, and the HC reported to the president. I think that's better than the org structure Murphy used with the GM, HC, and Director of Operations reporting directly to Murphy.

Yes, the HC reported to TT, TT reported to Wolf and Wolf reported to Harlan. I don't know why Murphy changed it.

 

[mradtke66]

Well said. The GM should have control over all football-related activities, and the HC. should report to the GM. Murphy changed that. The result is that Gluten and MLF are in charge of their "silos" and do not necessarily agree on issues.

I liked the Harlan/Wolf and TT organization structure.

I also liked the way it was done in the past. And then things went sideways, so things changed. MLF and Gute not agreeing should be the very thing that having the president in the room should help fix.

We also don't know if they do/don't agree. It's speculation from the media. I understand why some would say that and that it is reasonable conjecture, but it is only conjecture.

This could be as simple as MLF struggling to find a good Oline coach. That sucks, but if he's always had a good oline coach, he's never had to figure out how to get a good one. If the problem really is that simple, I hope he either figures it out OR identifies the gap and can find a guy who can help him find a guy.

 

[Magooch]

Take it with a grain of salt but the rumor that I've heard here in there was that this was basically changed due to disagreement between TT and MM towards the end of their time together. Basically feeling like the two of them had separate visions for team construction and the result was that McCarthy was either not getting the players he wanted/needed or getting players that he didn't want/need/know how to use or a little of both. And the idea was that having the coach and GM work in "parallel" would be more collaborative and less "here's the player you get, deal with it"

Which I guess makes some sense in theory but sometimes I feel like you could argue that we still have a similar conflict. IMO - not 100% of the time but frequently - it feels to me like Gute really does lean in ******* the draft and develop type model for roster construction...BUT I also feel like LaFleur's scheme and general approach/philosophy has often favored more towards NFL-ready players or more "finished products". With the exception of QB, I've not really felt much like MLF is a great "player development" coach, or at least the positional coaches he employs aren't....

 

[AGreen2AJones]

You missed the gist of my post. My main point was the EC should NOT be involved in football operations. Right after Lombardi was hired the team president presented Vince with a list of things he and the EC wanted him to do. Lombardi firmly told him in so many words to butt out. When Bob Harlan became team president he hired Ron Wolf and gave him full autonomy over football operations and the team's fortunes thrived. The EC and BOD should run the business end and let football people run the team. Policy should have zero input.

I have no issue there but simply put those are intertwined

 

[AGreen2AJones]

Do you ever realize the unpleasant nature you bring into conversations brother? Disagreement doesn't need to become this sweeping broad attack back at someone...Pugger didn't get rude at all and literally just espoused some context and then presented his thoughts in closing.

I love your perspective often, however brother, let's work on the delivery if you can my man. I actually think better conversations and threads will occur because of it.

I'm not batting a 1,000 myself so don't take this as anything other than a respectful nudge man.


(edited to add) I've re-read the entire thread...I think I applied more emotion to your response here based off of the mood of the OP and rest of the thread. So for whatever stretch or inflation I may have applied apologies. It perhaps wasn't as unpleasant as I read it at first.*

This is a fair criticism. I should probably take a step back and reflect on that. Probably being a little aggressive and overbearing. I appreciate that

 

[Heyjoe4]

I also liked the way it was done in the past. And then things went sideways, so things changed. MLF and Gute not agreeing should be the very thing that having the president in the room should help fix.

We also don't know if they do/don't agree. It's speculation from the media. I understand why some would say that and that it is reasonable conjecture, but it is only conjecture.

This could be as simple as MLF struggling to find a good Oline coach. That sucks, but if he's always had a good oline coach, he's never had to figure out how to get a good one. If the problem really is that simple, I hope he either figures it out OR identifies the gap and can find a guy who can help him find a guy.

This scenario is why I prefer that the HC reports to the GM. With this structure, they have to communicate with each other, and often. Maybe that is happening and we just don't hear about it.

 

[mradtke66]

This scenario is why I prefer that the HC reports to the GM. With this structure, they have to communicate with each other, and often. Maybe that is happening and we just don't hear about it.

Again, that communication broke down on the past when McCarthy reported to TT. That is why we ended up with this current structure. Basically having a more neutral third party making sure things don’t go off the rails.

A functional team has the GM and coach talking regardless. Jokes about the current state aside, I cannot imagine a world where they aren’t.

 

[Heyjoe4]

Again, that communication broke down on the past when McCarthy reported to TT. That is why we ended up with this current structure. Basically having a more neutral third party making sure things don’t go off the rails.

A functional team has the GM and coach talking regardless. Jokes about the current state aside, I cannot imagine a world where they aren’t.

Good points. Yeah these guys are probably talking every day, or close to it.

And the reporting structure worked without any hiccups (as far as I know), and the team won a lot of games in the regulr season.

 

[Magooch]

it feels to me like Gute really does lean in ******* the draft and develop type model for roster construction...

I just happened to notice that this comment got auto-censored and I'm really confused as to what it picked up on there because I'm pretty sure I had said something like "Gute leans in towards the draft and develop type model" or something along those lines, NO IDEA what word would possibly fit in that context and get flagged lol