Packers Annnounce Promotions of Eliot Wolf and Brian Gutekunst

Wolf will be director–football operations while Gutekunst will be director of player personnel.

From the team:

The Green Bay Packers have promoted Eliot Wolf to director–football operations and Brian Gutekunst to director of player personnel. The announcement was made Monday by Packers Executive Vice President, General Manager and Director of Football Operations Ted Thompson.

Wolf is in his 13th season with the club and spent the past year as the director of player personnel after serving as the director of pro personnel for three years. In 2011, he was the team’s assistant director of player personnel after working as the team’s assistant director of pro personnel from 2008-10. Wolf originally joined the Packers as a pro personnel assistant in 2004 and spent four seasons in that position.

Gutekunst, who is entering his 18th season with the organization, has spent the past four seasons as the director of college scouting after previously working 11 seasons as a college scout in the Southeast region. Prior to that, Gutekunst served as a scout for the East Coast region from 1999-2000. Before joining the Packers full-time, he was a scouting assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998, a scouting intern for Green Bay in the summer of 1997 and assisted the New Orleans Saints’ coaching staff in training camp in 1995.

There's a good chance other teams once again inquired about Wolf and Gutekunst earlier this offseason and the Packers are promoting them after refusing those teams permission to speak with their rising personnel stars. 

 

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NickPerry's picture

March 21, 2016 at 10:37 am

For a while I hoped the Packers would bring Jon Schneider back as GM when Thompson retires. Now I'm leaning more towards Wolf who I think would do an outstanding job. For some reason I think Wolf would be the perfect GM, somewhere between his Pops and TT. No matter congrats to both men!

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dobber's picture

March 21, 2016 at 11:46 am

"For some reason I think Wolf would be the perfect GM, somewhere between his Pops and TT."

I guess the natural question to ask is, "in what way?" Free agency was very different in the 90s than it is now. Who is to say that he wouldn't be functioning in much the same way as TT under the FA rules of the 2010s?

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marpag1's picture

March 21, 2016 at 10:43 am

Well, now we know what that GM "succession plan" is that the Packers have been talking about (Wolf)... and I'm OK with that.

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Razer's picture

March 21, 2016 at 11:02 am

Both these guys are good men. We won't be following the Cleveland Browns succession plan.

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Jerry Boehme's picture

March 21, 2016 at 11:13 am

Can one of them ask Ted if we could sign another team's FA or two? Fairley? How about a LB? Or we could just keep doing to same thing like we do every year and expect different results. That always works.

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NickPerry's picture

March 21, 2016 at 11:19 am

Isn't that what insanity is? Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result??

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Since'61's picture

March 21, 2016 at 12:11 pm

Glad that the Packers are able to retain both men. They are very capable. It looks like the successor for TT is between Wolf and Gutekunst. I expect that Wolf is the front runner and Gutekunst the backup in case something unexpected happens with Wolf. In either case we will have continuity when TT steps down. The question is will either of the two have a different approach to FA. The ability to trade compensatory picks may have a big impact on FA going forward. Thanks, Since '61

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zoellner25's picture

March 21, 2016 at 12:23 pm

I think we should all feel a bit lucky that our team has good people, good enough to have to protect from losing them. I bet Wolf knows he's taking over very soon and has decided to stay.

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alex's picture

March 21, 2016 at 01:04 pm

I agree. My grandmother used to say "A bird in hand is worth two in the bush."

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Oppy's picture

March 21, 2016 at 09:21 pm

What a coincidence, my Grandmother used to say, "Get me a pack of Pall Malls and a bottle of thunderbird or I'll tan your hide lickity split"

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Tundraboy's picture

March 22, 2016 at 01:52 pm

Lol Ah Thunderbird. Reminds me of Floyd, the local neighborhood wino we knew as kids We would, say to him every morning on way to school. What's the word? He'd answer "Thunderbird" Then, What's the price? Dont remember the second answer though.

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Oppy's picture

March 22, 2016 at 05:45 pm

"Twenty-two, twice"

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TommyG's picture

March 21, 2016 at 09:51 pm

No doubt a good guy, and his tenure shows that he has earned some friends within the organization. What I fail to see is why so many are opining for this Wolf to become the GM. What has he done (besides being born a wolf) that makes us think he would be even a serviceable GM?

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Oppy's picture

March 22, 2016 at 05:51 pm

Well, he's been scouting and evaluating players and helping set big boards (draft boards) since he was 13 (His father had him assisting TT and other scouts during his summers long before he was officially hired by the Packers), so he has a ton of experience with personnel. That's one of the major elements of the position.

Beyond his experience, he has moved steadily up the ladder with the Packers, which probably indicates he handles his business in a professional and orderly manner.

I don't know if he'll be a good GM or not, but he's done far more to make us think he may be a serviceable GM than, let's say, Donald Driver has done to make anyone think he might be a good WR coach. Elliot has done work at a high level that directly relates to skills needed to function as a GM.

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Thegreatreynoldo's picture

March 22, 2016 at 01:14 am

I don't know very much about Elliott Wolf. There have been rumors and/or reports that he would like to be a bit more active in FA. I don't know diddly about Gutekunst.

I might deduce that other teams are inquiring about these two men, but then, GB likes giving titles to coaches and FO personnel regardless of whether they deserve it.

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dobber's picture

March 22, 2016 at 10:43 am

"...but then, GB likes giving titles to coaches and FO personnel regardless of whether they deserve it."

It is just a branch of the corporate world, after all.

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JerseyAl's picture

March 22, 2016 at 10:34 am

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JerseyAl's picture

March 22, 2016 at 10:34 am

reply to test comment

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JerseyAl's picture

March 22, 2016 at 10:38 am

reply to reply

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alex's picture

March 22, 2016 at 10:58 am

echo

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alex's picture

March 22, 2016 at 10:58 am

but does it work?

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JerseyAl's picture

March 22, 2016 at 11:14 am

yes it does. I guess it doesn't work if you reply to your own comment, which makes sense.

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alex's picture

March 22, 2016 at 11:18 am

I would love it if I could have the voices in my head come from outside instead.

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alex's picture

March 22, 2016 at 11:19 am

Al, when I hear back from you, I'll delete the stack of test comments.

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JerseyAl's picture

March 22, 2016 at 11:21 am

Question. Am I right in assuming the user have to enable comment replies in their user settings first for any of this to work?

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alex's picture

March 22, 2016 at 11:24 am

All that is needed is the checkbox " Notify me when new comments are posted" and pick which types of comments you want.

If you check it in user settings it becomes the default for any comment you make (at least that is my understanding without having actually tested it).

I only checked the "Notify me" box on the comment from and it works so I think the settings in user account are just defaults to make it automatic.

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RCPackerFan's picture

March 22, 2016 at 12:30 pm

so what exactly is getting changed?

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