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December 28, 2015Cleveland Browns Week 16 Winners and Losers
December 28, 2015With just one week remaining in the 2016 NFL regular season, rumors have already began swirling about who could be the Cleveland Browns next general manager if in fact Ray Farmer is fired by owner Jimmy Haslam III. On Sunday, CBS’s Jason La Canfora reported that Green Bay Packers Director of Player Personnel Eliot Wolf will be a hot commodity for many job openings this off-season, including the Browns if Farmer, who was suspended for the first four games of the season and has failed to provide his team with play-making options at skill positions, is shown the door.
According to La Canfora, who has heard plenty of strong buzz around Wolf and Cleveland, his father, Ron1, will consult for Haslam on the Browns’ next overhaul, which could begin following the season finale against Pittsburgh next Sunday. The second youngest player personnel director in the league, Wolf’s primary duties include both college and pro player evaluation (film study, college visits, pro days, college All-Star games, and NFL Scouting Combine). During Green Bay’s season, he is responsible for advance scouting of future opponents, evaluating potential free agents, and recommending player tryouts.
Wolf has been involved with player evaluating his whole life (literally). While spending more than two decades in official and unofficial jobs as a talent evaluator, has contributed with Green Bay’s draft preparations since 1993, and he joined his father in film sessions with the Packers when he was 10 years old, while his first scouting report was filed with the Atlanta Falcons at the age of 14. With so much talent evaluation in his past, the 33-year old seems to be the perfect fit for the Browns, considering the fact that their draft selections have struggled so much (for the most part) since Farmer took over as general manager—this, of course, is in lockstep with each regime since the franchise returned in 1999.
Although the Packers are in Wolf’s heart and blood, could he see the Browns as a place that he can finally be a general manager? I guess the Dawg Pound will have to wait and see.
- A former Packers general manager and 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee. [↩]
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Well he certainly has the right-sounding name for the job. I can see the headlines now. “Wolf blows down Packers’ house with amazing trade.” “Wolf wears sheep’s clothing: When will he speak to public?” “Leading lambs to the slaughter: Wolf aces 2016 NFL draft”.
Wow this is a really, really dumb article:
“Wolf has been involved with player evaluating his whole life (literally). While spending more than two decades in official and unofficial jobs as a talent evaluator, has contributed with Green Bay’s draft preparations since 1993.”
^ So 11 year old Eliot… Wow.
“while his first scouting report was filed with the Atlanta Falcons at the age of 14”
^ In Crayola with lots of exclamation marks no doubt!! !!!
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Well then again I guess an 11 year old’s sage advice is on par with the homeless guy Jimmah used to decide on Manziel.
Can you dig it!
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Can already hear fans crying Wolf
Life in BrownsTown: Another Christmas season, another search for a savior.
I mean, he honestly couldn’t be worse than Farmer, right? Since that’s impossible.
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Too busy to research at the moment, but I think when Butch Davis was here, the Browns hired Ron Wolf as a sort of a consultant. Butch was a good HC, but horrible as GM. He was obsessed with ACC players he’d recruited, like William Green.
Wolf was kept at arm’s length. Would have been great to have him really help them. I would love to have him help them now, in this capacity.
Just get a competent GM who is on the same page with the scheme of the coaches. Draft Bosa, build the team and figure out the QB as you go.
He has been Director of Personnell since 2012. These are their draft picks:
2012 Nick Perry DE
2012 Jerel Worthy DT
2012 Casey Hayward DB
2012 Mike Daniels DT
2012 Jerron McMillian DB
2012 Terrell Manning LB
2012 Andrew Datko OL
2012 B.J. Coleman QB
2013 Datone Jones DE
2013 Eddie Lacy RB
2013 David Bakhtiari T
2013 J.C. Tretter T
2013 Johnathan Franklin RB
2013 Micah Hyde DB
2013 Josh Boyd DE
2013 Nate Palmer LB
2013 Charles Johnson WR
2013 Kevin Dorsey WR
2013 Sam Barrington LB
2014 Ha Ha Clinton-Dix DB
2014 Davante Adams WR
2014 Khyri Thornton DT
2014 Richard Rodgers TE
2014 Carl Bradford LB
2014 Corey Linsley C
2014 Jared Abbrederis WR
2014 Demetri Goodson DB
2014 Jeff Janis WR
2015 Damarious Randall FS
2015 Quinten Rollins CB
2015 Ty Montgomery WR
2015 Jake Ryan OLB
2015 Brett Hundley QB
2015 Aaron Ripkowski FB
2015 Christian Ringo DE
2015 Kennard Backman TE
If Eliot means adding Ron then I hope I don’t wake up from this dream! Although the last person who had a GB connection didn’t help much at all. Dammit you can’t win with this team!
Hungry like the Wolf Browns fans are!
Probably less sweaty so there’s always that.
Hmm…that’s a largely uninspiring list.
He’s a wolf in Brown’s clothing.
I can think of a worse list.
“Could Eliot Wolf be Browns next GM to be run out of town by Browns fans if Ray Farmer is fired?”
There fixed the title for you, Josh. Sorry, but I’m not convinced. Especially if Jimmy only gives him a year or two to operate. That timeframe would probably force Wolf to nail every single pick he gets in order to keep his job long term. Plausible, but unlikely.
Question is did he had final say in selecting those players? If so, well…
I think what you would hang your hat on here is that Eliot comes with Ron and Ron is going to get a 3 year leash (and a dump truck full of gold bullion) to “fix this franchise”. Essentially Ron becomes the GM by proxy.
Can’t say it really matters, if he is the director of personnel then he is the one who prepared all the scouting reports that led to these guys being drafted. In this respect being a GM is a lot like being a QB, too much credit for things that go right and too much blame when they fall to pot.
Are Ray’s horrible, horrible, worst-of-all-time drafts primarily his fault or does a lot of that blame fall on his scouting organization? Sure he makes the final decision but the inputs for those choices come from someone else.
Wolf was here but a few months. Butch didn’t see the need for his personnel expertise when he had Pete Garcia and himself. So good bye Ron Wolf, good bye Big Ben on the draft board, hellooo Jeff Garcia, good bye second rounder to move up just one spot to pick Winslow.
Where there is smoke there might be fire:
Ron Wolf denies talking role with Browns owner
Posted by Zac Jackson on December 28, 2015, 10:45 PM EST
Hall of Fame executive Ron Wolf has spoken with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, but Wolf told Jason Wilde of ESPN that he and Haslam did not discuss any type of official role for Wolf.
The Browns are 3-12 headed into their season finale, bringing speculation that Haslam will clean house, again, as early as next week. Longtime Browns reporter Tony Grossi has said on ESPN 850 in Cleveland that he’s been told Haslam will hire Wolf in some type of a consultant role.
Asked by Wilde what he thought of potentially serving in a consultant role, Wolf said, “I’m open to almost anything.”
Wolf’s son, Eliot, is the Packers’ director of player personnel and is thought to be a general manager candidate when the hiring cycle begins next week. Ron Wolf told Wilde that he would not be part of hiring his son.
“That is an entirely different situation,” Ron Wolf said. “He’d have to do that himself.”
Ron Wolf was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last summer. Wilde’s story notes that five former Ron Wolf understudies — Ted Thompson, Reggie McKenzie, John Schneider, John Dorsey and Scot McCloughan — are currently general managers.