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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 490386" data-attributes="member: 7277">I agree 100%.  I am flabbergasted, no offense intended, that anyone could ever find Sherman and Thompson to be comparable as GM's.  TT is one of the best in the business.  Sherman was a boy in a man's world.  He was completely out of his league as a GM.  I've often said that Wolf's biggest mistake was given Sherman the GM reins.  Wolf did so many good things for this franchise over the years, but passing the torch to Sherman was costly for several years.   There was nothing good about Sherman as GM.  He went after aging overpriced FA's, he panicked in the draft and traded up when he was worried that "his guy" was about to come off the board, and he let some promising guys walk while giving long-term deals to guys with talent but no work ethic (Hunt).  He, like anyone with access to a mock draft could do, occasionally ran into the good pick like Aaron Kampman.   I thought Sherman was a good HC in some regards.  There were some things about him I didn't really care for personally.  I felt that he was a bit arrogant and lacked accountability when things went wrong.  (MM messes up, but he's not afraid to tell you when he does feel he messed up).    The Donatell scapegoating was an example of that, and his demeanor towards Thompson in their only year working together generally reflects a pretty **** poor unprofessional attitude.</blockquote>

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