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brain drain in the team’s front office. After Ted Thompson rode off into the sunset as a glorified area scout Josh Jones Color Rush Jersey , Brian Gutekunst got the vacant general manager job and Eliot Wolf departed for the Cleveland Browns. Alonzo Highsmith went with him, as the team was deprived of two of its longtime personnel men in Gutekunst’s first year on the job.Today, however, an excellent scout with deep Packers ties is back on the market. The Raiders have reportedly fired general manager Reggie McKenzie, who was never going to survive a power struggle with Jon Gruden for long. Gruden’s ten-year contract and significant sway over personnel decisions made that arrangement untenable from the beginning, and the surprise is only that it took until now for owner Mark Davis to release McKenzie of his duties. On Sunday, a report emerged that McKenzie was expected to leave after the season, but according to Ian Rapoport, the team has elected to move on from him immediately.Now, it’s time for Gutekunst and team president Mark Murphy to make a phone call and get him back to Green Bay.McKenzie served in the Packers’ front office for nearly two decades https://www.thepackersfanshop.com/David-Bakhtiari-Jersey , starting as a scout in 1994 and working his way up to director of player personnel. In 2012, the Raiders hired McKenzie as their GM, and he purged a roster that was deep in salary cap hell and built it up to a high-water mark of 12-4 in 2016. That year, he won the NFL’s Executive of the Year award, largely due to that turnaround.Interestingly, Gutekunst held the director of player personnel job in Green Bay before he took over as GM. He and McKenzie worked together in the Packers’ front office for 13 years from 1999 through 2011, and should therefore have a relationship already. Currently, the Packers have co-directors of player personnel in Jon-Eric Sullivan and John Wojciechowski. However, the team could easily bring McKenzie in as a consultant for the remainder of 2018 before reshuffling the deck in the offseason to clearly define roles and responsibilities moving forward. McKenzie is a shrewd talent evaluator, and he helped identify several exceptional draft picks in his tenure in Green Bay. The Browns should also be interested in McKenzie Jason Spriggs Jersey , since he worked with Wolf and current Cleveland GM John Dorsey in Green Bay as well. Hopefully the prospect of returning to Titletown would lead him back to the shores of Lake Michigan rather than Lake Erie. Starr passed early on Sunday morning after dealing with continued health issues over the past few years." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesHorizontal - WhiteAcme Packing Companya Green Bay Packers communityLog In or Sign UpLog InSign UpFanpostsFanshotsSectionsPackersOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 322 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections The APC PodcastPackers Film RoomFantasy Football AdviceCDTShareTweetShareShareLegendary Packers QB Bart Starr has passed away at 85Photo by Brian Bahr/Getty ImagesIt is a sad day for the Green Bay Packers football family. Bart Starr has died at the age of 85, passing away early Sunday morning.Starr suffered a serious stroke in 2014, and has been struggling through various health complications since then. He did make a few visits to Green Bay in recent years, most recently in 2017.Starr’s family released a heartfelt statement through the Packers. Here is an excerpt from that statement:Starr was of course the quarterback on the Packers’ teams of the 1960s, helping the team win five NFL championships and Super Bowls I and II. Starr earned MVP honors in both of the first two Super Bowls, Throwing for 452 yards, three touchdowns and one interception in the two games. Starr also won the NFL MVP award for the 1966 season, in addition to earning first-team All-Pro honors that season.In his career, Starr threw for 24,718 yards with 138 touchdowns and 91 interceptions Mike Daniels Color Rush Jersey , good for an 80.5 passer rating. However, he led the NFL in passer rating four times, including in that 1966 season when he had a truly remarkable (for the time) rating of 105.0, and he still holds the NFL’s record for best career postseason passer rating at 104.8. He also held the NFL’s career completion percentage record at the time that he retired. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977. Starr also coached the Packers for eight seasons from 1975 to 1983.Still, Starr was an even better man than he was a football player, and he dedicated his post-football career to charitable work, starting organizations supporting at-risk youth as well as cancer research. We at Acme Packing Company wish the entire Starr family peace and strength in light of Bart’s passing.