Ted Thompson
Ted Thompson
Ted Thompsonis the current general manager of the National Football League's Green Bay Packers. Thompson was named to the post on January 14, 2005, by former Packers president and CEO Bob Harlan. Thompson took over the general manager duties from Mike Sherman, who had been serving as both head coach and general manager. Prior to becoming the Packers' general manager, Thompson served with the Seattle Seahawks as their vice president of operations from 2000 to 2004. Thompson had previously worked...
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth17 January 1953
lost playing reason
I think that D-line is playing their tails off. They're not the reason we've lost games.
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I'm reasonably pleased with all the individuals. There's not many that have been disappointments. I think it's far too early to try to rate it in terms of historical value.
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I don't think we brought in anybody like that last year. Usually you bring in a guy your doctor might want to look at again for a particular reason or you might have a question that didn't get answered. You interview a whole bunch of guys at the combine and you might want to talk to somebody again.
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I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.
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I think we'll do some of that. But back then there were only 30 teams instead of 32 and there was more available talent. It's not because we're not looking. It just has to make sense. We've seen some interesting prospects.
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I think he can still play, and I think he still has the passion to play.
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We intend to follow all of the guidelines that the NFL has set up to hire coaches.
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Sure we do. And we're assuming he will be back.
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Sure. In either scenario (if Favre retires or if he doesn't). I think you have to take the best player available when you're picking that high.
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I think, quite frankly, everybody would like to know what the answer is. It?s just not there yet. We understand that.
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I think, quite frankly, everybody would like to know what the answer is and I think Brett would especially like to know. It's just not there yet. We understand that. It's obviously a very high profile decision because of the quality of the player. We want him to play. But it's up to Brett and (his wife) Deanna to decide, to make that decision. Any communication we've had is just to try to do whatever we can to help him along in that decision- making process.
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We're working on a lot of things at a lot of positions. Obviously, we're looking to find somebody to help our team.
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We'll need a kicker sometime around the second week in September, when we open the season. Until then, we don't absolutely have to have a kicker. But we're working on it.
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You'd like to have three or four deep at each position, and a Pro Bowl player on the first team and a backup Pro Bowl player on the second team and so forth. It's just, there's not that many; the good Lord didn't make that many good tackles in the world.