Mike Sherman's Fall From Grace...

[Pokerbrat2000]

Wish I had known this before.

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He said PM!
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[Dblbogey]

There were some games where I felt Sherman did an absolute brilliant job. Other games I thought he did a poor job. I believe him getting the GM job did him in. Not just the loss of talent, but the lack of seperation hurt his player-coach relationships. His additional responsibility distracted his attention to coaching.

If left to just coaching I think he would have continued to develop as a coach and would have become a pretty good one.

I like Bob Harlan, but it was his call to make Sherman G.M and a big mistake that he admitted to.

 

[El Guapo]

Sherman was a good coach but didn't have a handle on Favre. Those were Brett's lazy years where teams rightfully didn't respect him. However, they were downright terrified of our running game. Without Ahman Green, one could argue that Favre's career would have ended before he got to the McCarthy years. Sherman drafted three offensive linemen in his time as GM, only one of which (Scott Wells? - I'm going off memory) panned out. TT got here and inherited two quality guards looking for big money in FA, and no young talent waiting in the wings. Sherman gets credit for maintaining a highly competitive team. As dblbogey stated, Harlan gets the blame for thinking that Sherman could handle both roles effectively.

My boss has a house on Cape Cod that abuts the football field where Sherman coached. My wife and I were out there a few years ago and we walked over to see the game on our way to the beach. I was shocked to recognize Mike Sherman and confirmed it by looking up his coaching gig on my phone. There's not much of a year-round population on the Cape. I can absolutely imagine that it's hard to field a team.