As told to Albert Breer
Jeffrey Lurie and I were still new to the NFL in 1999, and conventional wisdom would hold that, as we set out to hire the 20th coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, our inexperience would put us at a pretty serious disadvantage in finding the right guy.
But Jeff and I didn’t see it that way at all—in fact, we viewed our detachment from the old NFL establishment as an advantage. And ultimately, that’s exactly what led to us to a Packers position coach about whom very few people had ever heard.