When former Green Bay Packers president and CEO Bob Harlan named Ted Thompson general manager, you wouldn’t be alone in questioning who this man was.
That position was held by fan-favorite Mike Sherman for years, but the franchise wasn’t moving in the right direction and it was time to bring in some new personnel.
Thompson joined the team in 2005 and was already faced with a huge dilemma. The team was over the salary cap. The only way to get the team to the proper salary would be to cut veterans who were eating up a majority of the cap.