Getting back to topic:
Who did Mike McCarthy want and Ted Thompson said no?!?!?! BTW, it wasn’t Mason Foster.
It is easy to see this is an agenda driven hack piece, whose source is an Uffda-like fan; because no one connected with an NFL program would ever think like this. MM, for example, would NEVER belly ache, like this article and some fans, about some theoretical random free agent player that he did not get. If Mike McCarthy is not happy, it is because of a very specific player that he thinks would have improved the team and Ted Thompson said “NO.”
How could Mike McCarthy complain about a process in which his input drives most NFL personnel decisions? Ted Thompson didn’t just say, “herrrrrre’s Peppers.” Ted Thompson sought the staff’s opinion of Peppers and discussed the ramifications of Peppers signing to others players who’d be cut or not extended or not signed. Surely, Mike McCarthy signed off and then it was up to Ted Thompson to finalize the deal.
Mike McCarthy knows it’s a matter of choice, not want. You cant just want Dez Bryant. Unlike McSpinn and uffda, Mike McCarthy knows if you sign Dez, then there will be other ramifications. Let’s assume, Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson agreed to go get Dez and Ted Thompson says okay; then Dallas tags him. Mike McCarthy would not be mad about that; he may have decided that signing Dez is worth losing Cobb and Bulaga, but Mike McCarthy knows it’ll kill the team if you sign Dez and lose Cobb, Bulaga and 2 1st rounders.
Some guy probably made a sarcastic remark mimicking the loud-mouthed vocal minority and Bob McSpinn put that in his falsified notes for the fact check [See Stephen Glass-New Yorker]. We know the story is bull dung because it makes no sense: Mike McCarthy does not live in a fantasy dream world like McSpinn and the vocal minority, who flappy-lippy-dippy all day in a generalized incoherent rage. These loud-mouths NEVER suggest viable rational solutions. There argument is this: Ted Thompson should pursue free agents and trades to make the team better. Well duh, no shyte sherlocks!
McSpinn realized his lame story void of sources needed the support of an actual failure that Mike McCarthy might be mad about, so he FABRICATES the failure by citing Mason Foster as the mythic warrior god HOF Nitschke-like savior who undoubtedly would have tackled Fitz for a 10 yard loss in overtime, stripped the ball and scored. Foster put out 4 years of tape for all to see, TB didn’t want him, so he went to camp w/ Bears on min. deal, who cut him before start of season and then all other 31 GMs passed. Washington began the year with mediocrity at ILB with Robinson and Riley starting and Compton [’13 UDFA] and another UDFA backing up. Foster was signed only after injuries to Riley and Robinson and only played because Riley was inactive and Robinson after missing 5 weeks in the middle of the season, kept getting injured as he was trying to work himself back into game shape. Foster = Jumal Rolle, got a chance to play, didn’t play all that well, but got a few noticeable stats like a few TFLs v. GB. The loudmouths now want to blabberize ‘til our ears fall about Ted Thompson being an idiot; but like Rolle, Foster is just a fringe player who only gets a chance to play due to MULTIPE injuries at his position.
and notice how McSpinn shut his yap about the Ted Thompson failing to get the great Vernon Davis. He was a real difference maker in his 10 snaps, 1 target, 0 catch and 2 missed block performance yesterday.