Robyn Glaser is now EVP of Football Business & Senior Advisor to the Head Coach.

[Triumph]

Isn't there just a small chance that Robyn has been appointed because she is the best person for the job? Must it really be "because she's a woman". Are you really going there?

Are you a woman?

 

[PaulThePat]

Are you a woman?

Why would you need to know that to answer the question? Weird.

 

[203Pat]

It's weird I heard her name for the first time a couple weeks ago and now she is somehow involved in the operation of the team?

 

[condon84]

Sounds like a conduit from Mayo to the executive office.

Kraft just covering his base when he says he's not involved in football decisions.

 

[XLIX]

I want to know more about this hire other than a two sentence tweet, but a senior advisor to the HC seems like a big deal. I guess if it were me, I would want someone to advise me who maybe had been there, done that. Maybe she's an Ernie Adams type. Time will tell.

Other than the fact that Ernie Adams spent his entire life studying the sport of football and this woman.... works in business admin and HR or something like that.....

seriously.... WTF is a "senior advisor to the Head Coach"? Is this something other teams have?

 

[SVN]

They also sneakily leaked it after the press conference.

 

[SVN]

 

[203Pat]

Well that's comforting.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

They also sneakily leaked it after the press conference.

This is correct because Wickersham had already mentioned it a week ago but the announcement was held until after the press conference to avoid questios. The reason the Krafts wanted to avoid questions is because the beat reporters are all misogynistic.

 

[XLIX]

Isn't there just a small chance that Robyn has been appointed because she is the best person for the job? Must it really be "because she's a woman". Are you really going there?

I don't think anyone in this forum gives a damn what the business side of the Patriots' organization looks like, but a number of us are quite concerned on what it means for someone to be a "senior advisor to the Head Coach" - especially someone who apparently has zero experience with X's and O's.

Now if she is advising Mayo on finding good restaurants in Saugus (Kowloon!) then that's fine. But yeah, I am amongst those who are concerned that this is going to be a conduit for non-football management to meddle with football ops. (2 cents to @condon84 for using his term there)

 

[Steve102]

Other than the fact that Ernie Adams spent his entire life studying the sport of football and this woman.... works in business admin and HR or something like that.....

seriously.... WTF is a "senior advisor to the Head Coach"? Is this something other teams have?

@RobertWeathers posted above that she's here to advise him on league matters. I am ok with that.

 

[XLIX]

@RobertWeathers posted above that she's here to advise him on league matters. I am ok with that.

Still an awfully vague description there. What exactly does that mean?

 

[PaulThePat]

I don't think anyone in this forum gives a damn what the business side of the Patriots' organization looks like,

Quite possibly. However, that has absolutely nothing to do with what you quoted from my post.

 

[RobertWeathers]

 

[Steve102]

Still an awfully vague description there. What exactly does that mean?

See @RobertWeathers post above. I don't expect she will be getting into X's and O's.

 

[PaulThePat]

See @RobertWeathers post above. I don't expect she will be getting into X's and O's.

Don't rule it out. According to some on here she'll be making the picks on draft night.

 

[patman12]

I don't think anyone in this forum gives a damn what the business side of the Patriots' organization looks like,

At least 2 in this very thread do give a damn about such an inconsequential thing.

 

[turkeyneck]

So she's in charge of strongly worded letters?

 

[Rob0729]

From what I have heard on the radio, she might be doing contracts and she is supposedly a tough negotiator. I am ok with that.

 

[Grogan14]

So she's in charge of strongly worded letters?

Yes and Patriots will be NFL best at this