Conversation was strictly on a personal level Brad Biggs
One of the rumors making the rounds since Scot McCloughan’s abrupt departure from the San Francisco 49ers last Wednesday is that he will eventually make a landing in Green Bay.
McCloughan and Packers general manager Ted Thompson have worked together before, and McCloughan was at one time a scout for the organization.
Thompson told a group of reporters at the owners meeting that he’s spoken to McClougan but “as a friend” and “not from a business standpoint,” according to Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com.
McCloughan is technically still an employee of the 49ers and his situation should come into better focus when team president Jed York holds a teleconference later today that is, oh, about four days overdue. It’s clear that McCloughan will not be returning to work for the club. What is not clear is when he will be able to provide his services to another organization.
The Packers have a natural opening right now. Thompson has not filled the spot that was vacated by John Schneider when he left to become the general manager in Seattle.
"We'll see," Thompson said about filling Schneider’s spot. "It depends on how we make it through the spring. We're functioning pretty well right now."
In the meantime, we'll wait to see what York has to say. The Niners have proven to be more dysfunctional than anticipated with how they've mishandled this situation. It's difficult to paint things in a positive light moving forward to a critical draft when things were dissheveled in the front office. There's not other way to put it right now. Delaying the opportunity to send a message to their fans shows that the Niners didn't know what to do after severing ties with McCloughan.
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It's not clear that there is a gap in the GB front office, if anything it was getting a little crowded there with Schneider and McKenzie essentially splitting one job.
Why was McCloughan let go?
I read "personal situation" but what the hell is that?
Was it job performance or something to do with his personal life?
Nobody cares about McCloughan!!! I just care about who my team will pick up in the draft. Coach Sing should have full control of his team anyway!
I know he's a big guy, but he's a big guy that can play 1-gap with the best of them. You just don't find that every day. No one in this draft is even CLOSE to the prospect Hayneworth is right now. If he was in the draft, he'd be ahead of Suh and McCoy and any team that would draft and move him to a 3-4 would be laughed at.
taht is it
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Mar 22, 2010
11:12 AM
I wish San Fran would finally break the umbilical cord here. Would love to see him scout for Ted Thompson and the Packers. We have a great, hard working team but he would make it better. The only thing the 49'ers have going for them right now is that they have a solid, character guy at head coach. Singletary deserves the spot and I thought did a very good job. After the 49'ers Vikings game, I had a lot of respect for what that team was capable of coming into the game against the Packers and it showed when the niners almost erased a huge defecit and made it tight at the end.