Is the Coach/GM/President of an NFL team trend over?

[miami_fan]

Having one guy run the show in the NFL was all the rage a few years. It seemed like almost half of the teams were hiring one guy to be the Almighty of football operations. Now I can only think of three, Andy Reid, Mike Shanahan, and recently Jeff Fisher. I am not sure about how much is Belichek and how much is Pioli in NE. Maybe he is #4. Is the trend over? Has that era taught teams that they are better off one as GM and then another guy as head coach? Having dealt with the whole Nick Saban incident, I can't really see why any owner would put that kind of control on any one guy.

[PackerFanatic]

Lots of people said that about Sherman in GB too. Decent coach (at least tolerable) but terrible GM.

[DougWyatt]

Having one guy run the show in the NFL was all the rage a few years. It seemed like almost half of the teams were hiring one guy to be the Almighty of football operations. Now I can only think of three, Andy Reid, Mike Shanahan, and recently Jeff Fisher. I am not sure about how much is Belichek and how much is Pioli in NE. Maybe he is #4. Is the trend over? Has that era taught teams that they are better off one as GM and then another guy as head coach? Having dealt with the whole Nick Saban incident, I can't really see why any owner would put that kind of control on any one guy.

Hopefully not. I'd really like to see the Lions to give Millen more hats.

[sterlingice]

Hopefully not. I'd really like to see the Lions to give Millen more hats.

Does this pass for a hat now? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Knot-hangmans-noose.jpg/250px-Knot-hangmans-noose.jpg

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