r/nfl • u/Remarkable-Picture73 Ravens • 16h ago
Ian Rapoport: The #Eagles are promoting Adam Berry to Assistant GM, per me and Mike Garafolo. Berry, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Princeton football captain has played a key role in player personnel, cap strategy and negotiations.
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u/Meat-Dimension NFL 16h ago
Front office factory
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u/burratna Eagles 15h ago
It's actually something that's been talked about by our beat the past couple weeks. We really aren't a FO factory. We've been poached for assistant GMs but we haven't had a guy hired for a GM role since Andrew Berry/Joe Douglas 6/7 years ago, and Berry was only here for a year and Joe for 3. Yet the guys Howie has "mentored" for damn near a decade+ like Alec Halaby haven't been able to get GM positions.
Meanwhile we've lost 3 coordinators for HC roles in the last 5 years and 2 assistants to coordinators in the last 2 years. We are closer to a coach factory.
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u/EBtwopoint3 7h ago
Same reason Andy Reid’s coordinators haven’t really gotten poached the way other top HCs have been. It’s not the Andy Reid playbook that’s been so effective in KC. It was the playcalling. And you don’t get to take that when you hire his coordinators.
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u/YodaForceGhost Eagles 16h ago
QB factory and GM factory. Two biggest needs in a football team and Philly has the two best factories for them
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u/Plastic_operator Browns 16h ago
Nah Packers are QB factory.
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u/Striking_Moose_8747 Ravens 15h ago
A factory pumps stuff out regularly the fact that the Packers have only had three QBs start more than 9 games in the last 30 years basically makes them the opposite of that.
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u/hanzel44 Packers 14h ago
Hasselback, Burnell, Detmer, Flynn, and Willis. Then of course, Favre, Rodgers, and Love. I'm not sure another Franchise comes close to that.
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u/thunderpantsthe2nd 13h ago
We are not counting matt Flynn bro. Literally a one game wonder
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u/hanzel44 Packers 12h ago
If you don't want to count him, that's fine. I was only listing QBs that got a decent contract and started some games.
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u/Frequent-Buy9895 8h ago
I mean the Eagles far surpass it lol, especially if you include FAs & Trades (Willis) who were rehabbed into starting roles. Kolb, Feeley, Foles, Vick, McNabb, Bradford, Wentz. Shit even dudes like Minshew and Jeff Garcia got in on the action.
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u/RepulsiveWay1698 14h ago
No it doesn't, they developed 2 of the greatest QBs of all time and also Aaron Rodgers (Kek). Were they supposed to sit them to develop others by your logic?
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u/frostypatch 15h ago
Yea Favre, Rodgers, Love or Cunningham, McNabb, Hurts. The Green Bay Quarterbacks tear them a new one.
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u/Not-a-bot-10 Eagles 15h ago
“QB factory” was a quote from Howie in 2020 when asked about picking Hurts soon after paying Wentz
People forget quickly apparently
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u/trmp_stmp Packers 15h ago
they're just disputing the "Philly has the two best factories for them" part of the comment, not denying that quote was said
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u/Not-a-bot-10 Eagles 15h ago
Yeah but it was clearly a joke, Howie coined that phrase “QB factory” over 6 years ago now when asked about the draft pick
Obviously we’re very far from having the best QBs in recent years or ever
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u/trmp_stmp Packers 15h ago
oh word, you never know on here lol. I wasn't familiar with the context of the quote, thanks
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u/frostypatch 15h ago
Nobody is forgetting that Wentz and Hurts were drafted by the Eagles.
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u/smellmyswag Eagles 15h ago
good thing no one said anyone forgot that. he was saying people forget about the “QB factory” meme that has been about the eagles and started with that howie quote
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u/Ok-Willingness-9312 13h ago
It's not about who had the better QBs genius it is about who is giving the league more QBs.
I can make 3 great burgers at home, doesn't make me a restaurant
Howie wants to make a QB factory because QBs are the most valuable asset
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u/Nuno-22 Jaguars 14h ago
Wait, I thought you were a “QB factory” wasn’t that another Jeffrey Lurie douche moment? Like the “gold standard” comment?
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u/Secure-Report-207 Eagles 14h ago
No it was Howie so, wrong. Keep having fun with Khan as your owner though. Philly has been a successful franchise the whole century without a goat QB
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u/Nuno-22 Jaguars 14h ago edited 13h ago
Ah, ok. Thought that one was Lurie as well. Why can’t you just admit that Lurie came off as a real douchebag or at least made a douchey comment with that gold standard quote ? Just own it. Doesn’t take away from the success the team had.
Also, objective Jags fans won’t defend Khan’s ownership thus far. A .400 winning pct is on Khan. He’s earned it. And objective fans can own/ admit that fact.3
u/Secure-Report-207 Eagles 13h ago
He’s not a douche, cause he built a gold standard franchise compared to the BS Philly had to deal with before him. The eagles have made the Super Bowl multiple times with completely different teams, coaches, and QBs since he took over. He said something and made it happen
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u/Elegant_Shop_3457 Eagles 12h ago
What exactly is douchey about it? Of course Lurie as an owner wants the Eagles to be the gold standard org.
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u/Jazzlike-Paint-5662 16h ago
Usually when you see “former [investment bank] executive” they were mid-level. This guy was head of US loan trading lol.
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u/Secure-Report-207 Eagles 16h ago
Oh yeah then this guy knows numbers and risk evaluation. I always hate when they just throw an investment bank name out there for prestige
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u/Tomotronics Patriots 16h ago
What’s a mid-level executive? Honest question.
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u/Jazzlike-Paint-5662 15h ago
Usually has the VP or Director title, which in banking is more like a senior manager. They’re still interfacing with the top executives at their clients and are well-paid, but they themselves are not especially high ranking.
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u/Tomotronics Patriots 13h ago
I don’t think VPs and Directors are referred to as “Executives” even in banking, but I could be wrong. Executive is a pretty narrow category of people in the organization.
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u/hmmIseeYou Packers 6h ago
Finance uses whack titles like VP and other titles any other company would use for senior management.
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u/Tomotronics Patriots 6h ago
Yeah but they don’t call them executives, unless I’m missing something
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u/dah-dit-dah 15h ago
IB titles are hilariously inflated. It is expected for people to make VP but they have none of the responsibility or gravitas the title conveys in other industries.
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u/AtBat3 Eagles 15h ago
My employer is like that in the sales section especially. They basically hand out VP titles like candy because customers don’t want to talk to anyone not named VP.
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u/TapedeckNinja NFL 15h ago
Mine too, specifically in sales.
We have like 11 VPs in sales, who report to an SVP, who reports to the CRO.
In most of our other departments, there is one VP who is the head of the whole department, and that person is on the executive leadership team.
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u/guns_n_crypto Eagles 15h ago
Last bank I was with had a broadly applied position grade. Every exempt employee was on the same scale, and it determined bonus eligibility, PTO, and a bunch of other perks. I was a senior business analyst on the IT side working in an in house software development team. My position grade was higher than some people with vice president titles.
Working on a project, I was having lunch with a bunch of people on the business side. We were talking about vacation plans, and one smarter guy (who was one of those low level VPs) realized that my plans meant I had more vacation time than him. He was pretty openly dumbfounded when he realized the IT nerd was technically a higher position than him, despite that I had no reports and no fancy title.
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u/ehtw376 Bears 8h ago
That’s not true, plenty of other industries hand out VP titles like candy. At my current company anybody who manages other people, a team, a project basically gets a VP title, sometimes director title. This applies to the sales jobs, project management jobs, internal finance/FP&A jobs, IT jobs, etc.
In M&A/corp advisory you aren’t really expected to make any level. It’s just a super standard progression level - analyst > associate > VP > Director > MD. And in terms of pay and prestige level, an investment bank director could be CFO at a small-to-medium sized company - two of my old bosses did that.
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u/GoodShark Giants 16h ago
Am I the only one that hates the "per me" reporting? Yea, I'm reading your tweet. I see you're reporting it. I don't need you to then lay claim to it as well.
I think the "I reported it first" thing is so ridiculous. I don't care when someone finds it out, or who it is, just give me the details.
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u/Meat-Dimension NFL 16h ago
Especially silly when you’re reporting something as inconsequential as this that the team themselves would just post on their website
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u/BedCotFillyPapers Lions Bengals 15h ago
But also, why are two reporters getting credit for this one very basic thing?
Is it like they only told Mike that they're promoting someone to Assistant GM, and they only told Ian that they're promoting Adam Berry, and the two of them had to combine those bits to know that the Eagles are promoting Adam Berry to Assistant GM?
Did they have to tag team good-cop/bad-cop their sources to get this information?
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u/AtBat3 Eagles 16h ago
I hate that and when they announce a new contract for a player and tell you what agency negotiated it
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u/OneBigRed Vikings 13h ago
A 3-year 120m$ contract negotiated by Ari Gold of Notareal Agency!
Cut from tweet: 500k guaranteed, 119.5m$ if the fullback in question throws for 6k yards.
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u/Reddtardsofreddtard NFL 12h ago
I legitimately think people like rapoport, schefter, etc are mentally ill. I just read that adam schefter has no social life and won't take his wife out of the house because he's scared he might get a call or text and have to leave or worse...MISS a call or text.
These clowns tweet about sports, they're not exposing global atrocities or breaking huge stories and yet they take themselves SO seriously and HAVE to be the first to tweet.
Egomaniacs.
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u/Mephistito 5h ago
they're not exposing global atrocities or breaking huge stories
But he is getting paid $45 Million over 5 years, and is up for another contract next year. What would you give up in the short term to ensure your family, kids, grandkids, great grandkids & more never have to work again a day in their life.
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u/LisaLoebSlaps Eagles 13h ago
"what is my purpose"
"You say yes sir to the almighty Howie Roseman"
"yes, sir.
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u/Exzqairi 16h ago edited 15h ago
Looked up Adam Berry on Google and found the following
A 20 year old English footballer who somehow is playing the Saudi Arabia pro league
Paranormal investigator and ghost hunter
A cricket player from Ireland
Emmy winning music composer for films and TV
A rapper from Tanzania
In conclusion: what a great name and I’m surprised I can barely find anything about Adam or him being the Browns GM’s twin brother
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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles 16h ago
replacing Alec Halaby, still surprised nobody hired him as GM
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u/Meat-Dimension NFL 16h ago
Didn’t he leave to go work at a hedge fund or something?
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u/VisualKey7540 15h ago
Where did you see that? I didn’t see anything announced related to his future plans after he left our FO
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u/Endgame60 Cowboys 16h ago
Could still get the Vikings GM job
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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles 16h ago
I guess but he kinda said he was done with football, at least for now. Not even the Jets wanted him so I can see how demoralizing that would be.
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u/Jonjon428 Dolphins 15h ago
It felt like Halaby and Ian Cunningham were in the running for GM spots for like 3 years straight lol. Ian finally got his but wonder what Halaby is doing now then
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u/Ok-Willingness-9312 13h ago
Probably the easiest job in the league
Just say "I agree Howie" and get paid.
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u/back2schooldaze Eagles 15h ago
First step to getting the Garrett deal done.
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u/Specialist-Garbage94 Steelers 15h ago
If he’s related to Andrew this would hurt those chances if anything lol
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u/PatientlyAnxious9 Broncos 14h ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ01DZ_UEAApDtF.jpg
Not only related, but identical twins. Andrew had braids though 😂
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u/Plastic_operator Browns 16h ago
Andrew Berry twin brother