porky88
Cheesehead
Sherman played only for the year he was in...always trying to squeeze one more Super Bowl out of #4...and in doing so, he traded away the future and left a team with no depth across the board, and little talent at many positions...especially LBs.
I simply do not understand why people cannot get a grasp on the fact that the replacements we are now scrambling for should have already been on the roster, developing for a couple years, so that they were ready when called upon. Sadly, GM Sherman threw them all away in his quest for that one player who would put him and his team over the top....you know, James Lee, Hunter Hillenmeyer (who was discarded to keep Torrance Marshall), Donnell Washington, Torrance Marshall...the list goes on.
My honest opinion on Sherman is he should never of been GM. Had Ron Wolf stayed on as GM for another 2 or 3 more years I believe we would of reached one more Super Bowl with Sherman as the Head Coach. We were 12-4 twice with him and 10-6, 2 other times as well. However as GM he was in over his head and for every good move he made there were 3 or 4 bad ones. His inability to be a good GM is what lead to the hire of Ted Thompson and lead to his exit from Green Bay. Make no mistake about it, Mike Sherman did not build those early 2000 Packer teams. Ron Wolf built that team and put them together and we are still benefiting from his ability to be a great GM now. Mike Sherman was just a coach who inherited a lot of talent left by Wolf. Sherman gave out a few extensions to players left by Ron Wolf but he certainly didn’t discover much talent.