TT amongst the elite
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A few weeks ago, NFL front offices were ranked by CBS Sports NFL Insider, Jason La Canfora and the Packers came in third place out of all the league franchises.
Yesterday, the NFL ranked their top ‘power brokers’ and not surprisingly, Ted Thompson joined the elite company of Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots at the top. Ranked second overall, Ted Thompson is highly regarded for his relentless ability to drown out the doubters and focus on how to draft and develop. While other teams make huge splashes into the shark-infested waters of free-agency, Thompson prefers to key in on overlooked collegiate talent and take fliers on players he thinks the coaching staff can develop and help fill needed roles in the overall function of teams units.
In his tenure, Thompson has already been part of a quarterback saga that spanned three seasons and two different teams, including division-rival, Minnesota. And facing a furious nation of angry Packers fans, Thompson had the foresight and the intuition in the brutal business of football to make a decision and stick to it. And since then, Favre’s former understudy has blossomed into one of the game’s best and brightest quarterbacks, delivering stellar season after stellar season and a Super Bowl victory.
