Mark Murphy, a new era for the Packers

Just on December the 3^rd, former Redskins safety and athletic director at Northwestern University, Mark Murphy, was signed as the new President and CEO for the Green Bay Packers.

Even though he has no experience in administrative positions at the NFL, he did served as an assistant executive director with the NFL Players Association. He also counts with a master's degree in business administration from American University which he obtained when playing with the Redskins, and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

I think Murphy is a guy with the capacity to do the job, he played 8 years professionally and have the intellectual background to take the right decisions, mostly because when it comes to sports, the person who’s hiring personnel and handling most of the team’s major duties, needs to be experienced both in and out the field.

He is a guy that knows how to handle the pressure of power because he trusts the people he hires, and in most cases, those he has chosen, have responded him with professionalism, so much, that in a few cases they have remained in their charges for as long as 13 years.

Craig Muder the sports editor of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch, said the following on Murphy:

"He’s no meddler,he hires good people, gives them what they need to do their jobs and then gets out of the way. Ego is no consideration."

And that is exactly what the search committee consisting of six members of the team's executive committee and four members from the board of directors is looking for, a guy who can follow up with the team’s traditions, like allowing the general manager to asume complete control over the Football operation.

There was alot of controversy when Mike McCarthy (current coach) and Ted Thomson (General Manager) assumed their positions, but they proved everybody wrong by winning 14 of the last 16 games and it’s just too early to say if Murphy was the right choice, but certainly, critics must give him the chance to prove himself on a position many must envy.