Scot McCloughan For GM?

[Elias]

Honestly, never heard of him but after reading this article I want to give him a shot. His resume is amazing but he has one major problem. He is a recovering alcoholic so I feel teams will stay away from him.

Below is an excerpt from ESPN the Magazine on his impressive resume over the last few years. He has worked for the Green Bay Packers, San Fran 49ers and Seattle Seahawks in the last 20 years. All teams have gone to the SB during his tenure or shortly thereafter. He currently isn't employed but has his own scouting business where teams pay him $75k to scout a player! He seems eager to jumpstart his career again.

A great read but extra LONG.

He has two Super Bowl rings locked in a safe. Each of the three teams for which he has worked in his 20 years in the NFL -- the Packers, two stints with the Seahawks, and the 49ers -- has reached the Super Bowl during his tenure or shortly afterward. McCloughan had a part in drafting six players who were on the Pro Bowl roster last season, including Patrick Willis and Vernon Davis. His report on Russell Wilson for the Seahawks a few years ago read: "Obviously we are really interested in passers with better height, but this guy may just be the exception to the rule. He has the 'it' factor."

So does McCloughan. He has an "exceptional ... uncanny" gift, in the words of his mentor and former boss Ron Wolf. It's why he named his business Instinctive Scouting. This morning, he is consumed with an FBS middle linebacker projected by many to be a sixth- or seventh-rounder. But on a play in which the linebacker sprints to the sideline to make a tackle on a bubble screen, McCloughan sees something others might miss. The linebacker smelled a screen before anyone else and was just fast enough to get to the receiver. "You can't teach that," McCloughan says. He leans forward, quietly rewinding split seconds of the clip again and again.

McCloughan admits he misses on players more often than he hits. But to sit next to him is to be in the company of a kind of football savant, deftly mixing technical observations with X-rated yarns about players and coaches he's met through the years. There is something deeply personal about the way he works, and he often inserts himself into the process, fully aware the NFL isn't a home for the well-adjusted. A few years ago, at the combine, he interviewed a player who had repeatedly tested positive for marijuana. "OK," McCloughan said. "I like to drink beer. You like to smoke weed. Where'd it start?" Disarmed by McCloughan's openness, the player explained that, when he was 5 years old, he had a headache and his mother gave him a joint. It became a way to cope. "That's all he knew," McCloughan says. "It wasn't like he asked for the joint. But you do something long enough, your body acclimates to it and wants it."

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12014699/scot-mccloughan-nfl-best-talent-scout-self-employed-living-farm

 

[ucrenegade]

even if not as a GM sound slike he would be good taking bradways job.

 

[Xmarco]

He does seem to be a solid choice...in an earlier thread he was mentioned amount other candidates

 

[sg3]

If he's got that sobriety thing controlled, he sounds like a good candidate

 

[flgreen]

Drunks are good

 

[ucrenegade]

Drunks are good

billy martin says hi