If so, who should she shadow?

Is Carlie allowed to do this as an owner?
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  1. Let’s assume it was allowed and let’s assume every owner would gladly allow it.

    I’d love to see how the Patriots work. They seem to always have a winning mentality, great front office, and do it all with one of the older facilities and demanding fan bases.

  2. One way to do it would be to bring in consultants that have held those positions with other teams or even some of the big college programs. It would be great to actually see in the building what other teams do, but idk that it is possible

  3. It’s absolutely allowed and these rich fucks love each other behind closed doors. They might be shunning her/them because their not a longstanding member of the club.. but other than that I guarantee this happens more than you think.

  4. What makes one think she doesn’t know what other teams do? Players talk, owners talk, agents talk. I understand what you’re saying, I just think iyt doesn’t need to be said right now. She has a damn full plate after the last game this season.

  5. Pretty much every coach and staff member has worked for other NFL teams. C’mon guys. And the owners have meetings every year and communicate with each other all the time.

  6. I think they can get a great deal of information from incoming free agents. Especially from successful teams. Get those ideas, and implement whatever makes sense.

    I will say, as injury bitten as we have been lately, I would really welcome the notion that they bring in an expert from the field and insist that players be involved in multiple weekly sessions and a new pregame routine to attempt to avoid some of the things we’ve seen lately. Maybe it works, maybe not, but we when the roster starts getting too thin, wins are very hard to come by.

  7. There isn’t anything preventing her from doing it, except the other teams might be against giving up their information. I don’t know if college programs are a viable way to go to gain information on recruiting talent since in a lot of cases players go to schools based on reputation and profile. Winning begets winning a lot on the college level I think.

  8. I don’t think there is a secret sauce to any of it she doesn’t already know. It’s really finding a good GM who hires a great HC and who drafts great talent, sometimes you just have to get lucky.

    Polian was a great GM and Manning was a great QB and they got 1 SB ring out of it.

  9. I feel like the owners might already talk with each other annually, but I can see how weird it would also be for a rival owner to take notes on what you do and try to copy you. If anything, I would copy what the Dolphins are doing. Not bringing in some random QB. I mean bringing in every name you see in the Ring of Honor, and consulting them on the direction of the team. Bring them in and ask for things that made the team great 20 years ago. Ask who they think would be a great coach or GM. It’s never a good idea to ignore former players. That was one of Brian Kelly’s mistakes at LSU.

  10. I doubt teams will want to share too much of what makes them tick. I mean this is kinda why they hire an army of scouts, assistants, consultants and other personnel that come from those other teams.

    Plus she was basically the acting owner for the past couple seasons prior to this one anyhow, unlike some would lead you to believe she’s not entirely new to all of it. She has already met a lot of other owners, GMs, etc. not to mention that much of this is the GM’s job to figure out programs like this and report it to the owner.

  11. I would like to see her making the offensive play calls and have direct communication in the qb’s helmet.

  12. So which is it???…. Owners need to stay out of day to day football operations…. Or owners need to travel around the country to mimic best in class operations and implement them…. Seems people want it both ways.

  13. She has been around football operations her entire life…. It is slightly offensive, to portray this like a revolutionary idea…. Like the owners of Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and such never came up with the idea that “Gee, we just need to mimic the winners, and we will be winners too”…. If it were that easy, everyone would do it…. And no coach or GM would be paid millions of dollars to build a winning culture… and fired when they don’t.

  14. This is an L take. She knew more about owning a team at 25 yrs old than you will in a lifetime, respectfully.

  15. Carlie seems more tuned into the way the NFL runs than most owners. Will it help? Time will tell.

  16. Hasn’t she been attending owners meetings and operating in the executive suite for almost a decade already?

    Why do people she just came in off the street?

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