John Lynch - 49ers GM

Eric Branch @Eric_Branch
…. It's not known if Dominik will still be considered for a front-office role with rookie GM. #49ers

OBVIOUS PROBLEM: "What?! John Lynch has absolutely no executive, administrative, and personnel experience in the NFL."

WHY IT COULD WORK OUT:
I have no idea what dynamics are in play, but my assumption is that Jed really wants to focus on building a front office that works harmoniously with the coaching staff and players. Is John Lynch the right guy for the job? I don't know. I don't know what his interview looked like. But I imagine this is what the 49ers braintrust will look like now...

JED YORK: Owner. Intends to step out of the way and sign the paychecks.

KYLE SHANAHAN: Will most likely have all the veto/trigger power and be the one who gets all the glory or finger-pointing. He's a young, innovative head coach that is well-connected throughout the league. He may be a little cocky, but his offenses have succeeded everywhere he went. He turned Matt Ryan into a good/great NFL QB into the league's MVP. He's a solid head coaching candidate.

TOM GAMBLE: He will most likely handle all the administrative/executive things behind the scenes. He's the NFL exec type that we need.

PARAAG MARATHE: He's very good at managing the cap and negotiating contracts. I like to think that he does a good job with a lot of the analytics, but I don't really think they helped Baalke and Chip anyway. I'm pretty sure he's gonna eff things up behind the scenes.

MIKE SHANAHAN (official or unofficial advisor): Mike may or may not get hired by the 49ers, but I'm pretty sure he'll be in Kyle's ear, at the very least. On one hand, he's won Super Bowls... on the other hand, he flopped in Washington and was criticized for mishandling RGIII. Good or bad experience, I think he's a good advisor to have for Kyle and the Front Office.

JOHN LYNCH: John Lynch has no experience in this position. But he's described as being smart, a great communicator, is a Hall of Fame candidate, and was a leader on that tough, tough Tampa Bay defense. He has a history with the Shanahans, is well-connected with the league... and I guess, will be well-liked because he'll throw in that he has ties to Bill Walsh.

I imagine that because Kyle Shanahan will most likely have trigger power and because Tom Gamble has the executive and personnel experience, I imagine that John Lynch one of John's biggest roles will be a liaison from management to not just the media and the staff... but to the players. Players will be able to identify with him because he was such a high-profile player and is a natural leader. He should be able to get along with the staff because of his history with the Shanahans and because chemistry was the biggest thing the Yorks were interviewing for.

I think the other biggest input he'll have is the direction of the defense. Kyle Shanahan should take care of the offense, but I think they'll lean on John Lynch and the DC for the direction of the defense.

With all this said though, I think the 49ers could benefit from bringing in an outsider who can fill an assistant GM role to help shoulder the burden for Lynch's lack of executive/personnel experience.

No idea how this will turn out. John Lynch doesn't have the background that the other interviewed executives have... But... I can see it turning out okay.

Originally posted by AXEGRINDER:

Lowell Cohn retired I think

God I hope so

Originally posted by 21SandersMoss84:
I'm gonna give peace a chance. Gonna keep watching Lynch highlights to keep me drinking the kool-aid.

Not sure how that helps with the draft.

From a piece on NFL that sounds good: Lynch has been around every team in the league in his job as an analyst. He has talked to all the GMs and coaches. Got to know how the best franchises in the business work.

If you were going to hire a "secret shopper" to find out how people were doing, Lynch would have been that guy.

There are a lot of ways to run a business. There are some standard templates but that doesn't mean you have to follow that template to be successful. Lynch is a very bright guy. Very well spoken. Understands the game better than 90% of the talking heads out there. He is definitely a "football" guy. It will be interesting to see how he fills in some of the spots around him.

The more I think about it, the more I like it. Going outside the box is not a bad idea, particularly when you have a bright, perceptive guy leading the charge.

Originally posted by gold49digger:

Originally posted by captveg:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Matt Maiocco ‏@MaioccoCSN
John Lynch stayed at Jed York's house in the Bay Area on Thursday night and flew with #49ers party to Atlanta to meet with Kyle Shanahan.

Son of I'm reading between the lines, it sounds like Lynch was always going to be top dog before the interviews this weekend, and it was the job of main personnel guy for Lynch that Paton/McDonough/Dominik were ultimately interviewing for this weekend.

I highly doubt Paton or McDonough will be hired as a secondary guy. Unless they get paid top dollar.

Oh, I would guess Dominik is the guu, but top dollar is what the Niners are handing out right now, so...

Originally posted by jreff22:
Nothing Jed is doing makes sense. Expect the next hire to be something else random.

This is how the NFL sees Jed right now

This actually makes a lot of sense. Its risky, a huge gamble but I can see the logic in it. It helps if you don't think of Lynch as a traditional GM that will be spending a ton of time scouting...etc. Lynch will bring personnel people and delegate to them, he'll handle the role of a vice president of football ops.


In that regard, who knows, its crazy enough to work, or fail dismally but at least there won't be a repeat of the Baalke-Harbaugh issues. Lynch is a close friend of the Shanahan's and the likely personnel guy Dominik has connections to both Lynch and Kyle Shanahan.

My absolute favorite thing about this hire is the RAT AND LEAKS are gone. Nobody knew a thing about this until an hour ago despite the 9ers having interest weeks prior. Lynch wanted it kept quite and it stayed quite.

Now we can move forward with stability and leadership.

Originally posted by jreff22:

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by teylo31:

Then why hire him

Because Dominik has connections to everyone and has quite a bit of NFL front office experience. He was in the Tampa front office while Lynch played there and while Shanahan coached there.

Nothing Jed is doing makes sense. Expect the next hire to be something else random.

This is how the NFL sees Jed right now

Fuuuuck!!!!!

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by Willisfn4life:

He's speculating because he is connected to both the Shanahan's and Lynch.

Dominik was considered the third GM candidate, now both Lynch(GM) and Shanahan(HC) have immediate connections to him. It makes sense to me, we'll just have to wait and see.

I would still rather Lynch hire someone for his first mate that is a little more current over someone that has been out of it for four years. With that said though, now with the initial shock starting to wear down, I'm going in with an open mind. I want to see how Lynch builds his whole front office in the coming months. I'm sure it will be after the draft before too much movement heats up, but hopefully he can live up to some of these reports about him being well networked in the NFL.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by jb49ers80:

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Mark Dominik will likely be the guy handling personnel for Lynch. Lynch has the GM title but it sounds more like he'll have Executive Vice President of Football Ops type role.

Exactly

This would mean one more "football guy" in the front office. That part of it I like a lot. Lynch won a lot in his career and experienced leadership from some of the greatest coaches of the modern era and all-time.


Rather than Baalke's raspy 5-pack a day voice, you'll get a very eloquent, well spoken guy, an NFL HOFer as the spokesman for the franchise.

Denny green (Stanford)
Walsh (Stanford)
Dungy (Tampa)
Gruden (Tampa)
Shanahan (Denver)
Belichek (NE)

That is a really impressive list of coaches he's been around.

Originally posted by braap49er:

Originally posted by JeromeBettis36:


B - I - T - C - H - E - S

that's you are to this team

English

I'm mexican

don't start a racist rant now

today is about JOHN LYNCH NOT YOU!

Originally posted by dj43:
From a piece on NFL that sounds good: Lynch has been around every team in the league in his job as an analyst. He has talked to all the GMs and coaches. Got to know how the best franchises in the business work.

If you were going to hire a "secret shopper" to find out how people were doing, Lynch would have been that guy.

There are a lot of ways to run a business. There are some standard templates but that doesn't mean you have to follow that template to be successful. Lynch is a very bright guy. Very well spoken. Understands the game better than 90% of the talking heads out there. He is definitely a "football" guy. It will be interesting to see how he fills in some of the spots around him.

The more I think about it, the more I like it. Going outside the box is not a bad idea, particularly when you have a bright, perceptive guy leading the charge.

That Lynch played under Bill Walsh, Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Tony Dungy and Bill Belichick certainly doesn't hurt. The guy has seen winners, been coached by them, he's won a SB and has a close relationship with the new 49ers HC.

Originally posted by SisterFister:

My absolute favorite thing about this hire is the RAT AND LEAKS are gone. Nobody knew a thing about this until an hour ago despite the 9ers having interest weeks prior. Lynch wanted it kept quite and it stayed quite.

Now we can move forward with stability and leadership.

Until york and parage dont like what lynch says one day lol

I LOVE IT !!!

NO SARCASM!!!

I DON'T KNOW WHO'S GONNA BE IN CHARGE OF THE DRAFT YET, BUT AS A GM..

LYNCH IS THE MANNNNN !!!!



HERE WE GO BABYYYY !!!!!!!