Former Stanford football player John Lynch was named the new General Manager of the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday and it was a shock to most people. It wasn’t shocking because John Lynch is a “bad guy” or because he wasn’t a good football player but he has zero experience in the executive field. Now don’t get me wrong, John Lynch KNOWS football. Lynch was a 9x Pro-Bowler, 3x First-team All-Pro, Super-Bowl Champion, is in TWO different franchises “Ring of Honors”, and could go into the NFL Hall of Fame later this week.
John Lynch was a great PLAYER but how will that play out as his first executive job in the NFL is running the once proud San Francisco 49ers franchise where the owner might turn on him for using the wrong urinal; he has never worked with fellow executives and coaches in this manner; and the current roster would be 3-point underdogs to Alabama.