There was an interesting nugget in the Boston Globe about the Steeler search
for a GM. I'm copying the whole section but the Steelers discussion is in the
last two paragraphs.
Another type of free agency has provided a flurry of movement over the past
week. With the draft in the books, most front offices are retooling their
scouting departments for the season.
New GMs such as the Giants’ Joe Schoen, the Bears’ Ryan Poles, and the Raiders’
Dave Ziegler are moving on from scouts that they inherited from a previous
regime. It is common for teams to retain their scouting staffs through the
draft to protect proprietary work that has been done. And, as explained by Neil
Stratton of Inside the League, most scouting contracts are two years and expire
on May 1.
Those dynamics also lead to plenty of scouting changes for teams that didn’t
switch GMs. For example, the Patriots are expected to soon hire Buccaneers area
scout Tony Kinkela for a more senior role, per Stratton. Kinkela had been with
the Buccaneers for the last 13 years and helped find many of the players that
contributed to the 2020 Super Bowl team.
In Cleveland, GM Andrew Berry is hiring Catherine Raiche for a senior personnel
role. Raiche, the Eagles’ vice president of football operations, interviewed
for the Vikings’ GM job this offseason and could be on track to be the NFL’s
first woman GM. She previously was an assistant GM for the Montreal Alouettes
in the CFL, and had been with the Eagles since 2019, where she worked with
Berry.
And in Pittsburgh, the Steelers are continuing with perhaps the most thorough
GM search in NFL history, to replace the recently retired Kevin Colbert. NFL
Network reports the Steelers are about to conduct a second round of interviews
with the Titans’ Ryan Cowden and Buccaneers’ John Spytek, and more interviews
could be coming.
The Steelers initially met with 16 candidates, with two coming internally, and
the others coming from the Titans, Colts, Rams, Packers, Buccaneers, Panthers,
49ers, Ravens, Eagles, Giants, Vikings, the XFL, and ESPN (Louis Riddick). It’s
an impressive display of thoroughness and open-mindedness as the Steelers
search for the right prospect. Compare it to the Patriots, who pretty much only
fill their vacancies with former Patriots or the kids of their friends.
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Subject: [steelers_pb] Re: GM Search
Now Doug Whaley gets a second interview. This is interesting, because I’ve
heard some things about his time in Buffalo that ended badly, also, he’s quite
a ubiquitous talking head in local media circles too.
I’m quite easy about this whole process, if they pick an external candidate
(which I now think is a better than 50-50 chance) then I’d go along with that
because of the thorough nature of this process, but in saying that, I would not
give Whaley the job, no way.
On 5 May 2022, at 18:58, David Reid ("davidreidb46")
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And in an interesting development, the Eagles are interviewing Brandon Hunt
for a front office position today, too. I can’t foresee the Steelers letting
him walk, but it’s very interesting anyway
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On 5 May 2022, at 13:33, David Reid <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Second interviews start this week, Ryan Cowden (Titans) and John Spytek
(Bucs) are first up with others to follow. I’ve been told that expect an
appointment in the next couple of weeks and Colbert will officially sign off
at the end of this month.
