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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 562013" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p>When Holmgren left after the 1998 season (IMO he had his ‘foot out of the door’ for the preceding season), Wolf was GM with no plans to retire. After Wolf made the mistake of hiring Ray Rhodes as HC in 1999, he fired Rhodes and hired Sherman as HC in 2000 and then abruptly decided to retire after the 2000 season. Harlan liked/loved Sherman as HC so much he made what he later said was his worst decision as president of the Packers and promoted Sherman to GM/HC. He was afraid a new GM may not get along with Sherman or just want his “own man” as HC. At the time he left, Holmgren had no reason to believe Wolf would retire two years later and Wolf wasn’t going to be fired. If Holmgren had been patient and stayed, he probably would have received the promotion Sherman got. But both jobs were too big for Holmgren too – just like Sherman he never trained to be a GM. Contrast that to Thompson, who had been trained by Wolf for eight years before becoming Seattle’s VP of football operations for 5 years. (BTW, Harlan made another mistake - a minor one - IMO when he made keeping Sherman as HC for one season a condition of Thompson's accepting the VP/GM job.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 562013, member: 4300"] When Holmgren left after the 1998 season (IMO he had his ‘foot out of the door’ for the preceding season), Wolf was GM with no plans to retire. After Wolf made the mistake of hiring Ray Rhodes as HC in 1999, he fired Rhodes and hired Sherman as HC in 2000 and then abruptly decided to retire after the 2000 season. Harlan liked/loved Sherman as HC so much he made what he later said was his worst decision as president of the Packers and promoted Sherman to GM/HC. He was afraid a new GM may not get along with Sherman or just want his “own man” as HC. At the time he left, Holmgren had no reason to believe Wolf would retire two years later and Wolf wasn’t going to be fired. If Holmgren had been patient and stayed, he probably would have received the promotion Sherman got. But both jobs were too big for Holmgren too – just like Sherman he never trained to be a GM. Contrast that to Thompson, who had been trained by Wolf for eight years before becoming Seattle’s VP of football operations for 5 years. (BTW, Harlan made another mistake - a minor one - IMO when he made keeping Sherman as HC for one season a condition of Thompson's accepting the VP/GM job.) [/QUOTE]
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