Ted Thompson
Ted Thompson
Ted Thompsonis the current general manager of the National Football League's Green Bay Packers. Thompson was named to the post on January 14, 2005, by former Packers president and CEO Bob Harlan. Thompson took over the general manager duties from Mike Sherman, who had been serving as both head coach and general manager. Prior to becoming the Packers' general manager, Thompson served with the Seattle Seahawks as their vice president of operations from 2000 to 2004. Thompson had previously worked...
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth17 January 1953
ball good played throw
It was a bang-bang play. He probably should have played the ball quicker. That's a pretty good throw and catch.
good seems
It seems like he had a pretty good visit.
chick levels normally topics
It wasn't like chick movie stuff. But it was on some levels and topics that are not normally discussed.
bay green player policy talk
It's Green Bay Packers ' policy never to talk about negotiations. There's nothing to say yet. We'll have something to say when a player is signed. Even then we don't say much.
aware developing situation
We're aware of the situation that has been developing up in Seattle.
absolutely open second sometime until week
We'll need a kicker sometime around the second week in September, when we open the season. Until then, we don't absolutely have to have a kicker. But we're working on it.
backup bowl deep four good lord player pro second team three
You'd like to have three or four deep at each position, and a Pro Bowl player on the first team and a backup Pro Bowl player on the second team and so forth. It's just, there's not that many; the good Lord didn't make that many good tackles in the world.
against athletics marvelous practiced
We practiced against that play during the week. They do a lot of different things with him. He's a marvelous athlete. He's got speed.
believed coaching decisions head past structure sure time
After I rejoined the Packers this past January, I believed it was important to take some time to make sure that things were going well with the new organizational structure before any long-term decisions were made to the head coaching position.
decisions felt needed require
Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.
general judge understand
This is a big-boy league. I understand repercussions and the way you judge a general manager.
behind good guy missed three
I think we missed at least three tackles. The first gunner (Hawkins), a guy behind him and the guy behind him. It was a good punt.
available instead seen teams
I think we'll do some of that. But back then there were only 30 teams instead of 32 and there was more available talent. It's not because we're not looking. It just has to make sense. We've seen some interesting prospects.
lost playing reason
I think that D-line is playing their tails off. They're not the reason we've lost games.