By now, we've heard that the team will hire a search firm, that they may hire a search firm, that Eliot Wolf, Brian Gutekunst and Russ Ball are all strong internal candidates and that the new GM may or may not have a scouting background.
Mark Murphy will make the final call on who gets the nod but how much input will others have around the organization? Specifically, how much input will Aaron Rodgers have?
It's never a good idea to let players make personnel decisions and that's not what I'm asking here. We all remember how Brett Favre lobbied, through the media, for the team to re-sign certain players and to sign outside free agents.