How much bigger has the GM job gotten?
One team president considered that question Wednesday night, raising how the NFL has thought of splitting the commissioner’s job into two posts, one for business and another for football. And he said the same idea could be pondered for teams hiring a GM for a very specific reason: The number of hats a GM needs to wear can often lead to not putting the one on that got the person the job.
“You wind up losing who you hired,” the president said.