and Hello welcome to the return of the Friday roundtable Matthew Coller Ekstrom, along with from the Athletic, Chad Graf.

We're very glad to have you back on the show, Chad, but also to have the Friday Roundtable back in our lives and great timing we have a GM and coach search to discuss.

So what's up chat?

Oh not much good to be with you on this snowy Friday morning good to chat with you guys.

All right tell me something here's where I want to kick this off.

How in the world do you figure out if some person who is a director of player personnel or director of scouting or whatever, how do you figure out if they're going to be the right GM pick?

Because you know I was going back and I was writing a piece about the traits that you need from the next general manager and a lot of them are sort of subtle jabs at the last administration, but that's how it goes.

And I had this thought about like, you know, what a good hire Gerson Rosas seemed to be.

And so I went back and I looked at his introductory press conference and all I Googled was Gerson

Rosas collaboration. And oh man, I mean that was all the whole thing he's plans to be so

collaborative and while he did collaborate maybe in the wrong way with the PR

department but not so much with the rest of the front office.

So it took a second here, but explain to me how we're supposed to figure this out because every GM candidate will win the

opening press conference, but how do we decide whether they did the right thing or not when they

hire one of these people that none of us have ever heard of until yesterday?

Well I was just trying to put myself in Andrew Miller, the CEO's shoes of what questions do you even ask?

And like how specific do you get in terms of A are you saying

We currently have our quarterback on a 45 million dollar cap hit what would you do with this

What would it take for you to get a trade? What would you

prefer to extend him? What do you think of him? Like that's the biggest question

after these decisions are made. I assume you're going to want to know what the person you choose is going to do.

So do you get as explicit as saying, forecast the next three months for me?

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