For the life of me I don’t understand how someone could still be labeled “Not a football guy” after being a NFL GM for more than 20 years, around football, around players, coaches and scouts, draft meetings, making draft picks, signing free agents, attending every game and virtually all practices, been involved in big game weeks, won a Super Bowl, analyzing stats and other data to put hard dollar values on players, etc.
I think he was “Not a football guy” when he first got the job, without question, but that label seems a bit silly to apply today unless the guy is just a complete unintelligent imbecile that hasn’t learned a thing in over two decades, and we know that isn’t the case.
I mean, if he isn’t a football guy, after all he’s been around, experienced, and done, what must one do to acquire such a label?