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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1060858" data-attributes="member: 18006">Bumping up Mannion was the plan ever since Day One; glad to see it happen. Although actually, I recall reading that he was promoted the same day Tom Clemens retired, January 30th.I'm excited to see what he is able to do, especially after having a full season to work with Clemens and learn from him. I think that was an excellent hire by Lafleur, and it was triply good news because it pissed off both Bear fans and Vikings fans! The Vikings and their fans had mostly assumed that when he officially retired as a player, he would someday join their staff, and the Bears were getting ready to hire him when Lafleur snatched him right out of their grubby little bear paws.In fact, the thing that led to Lafleur hiring him was that Mannion had been Jared Goff's backup in LA in 2017 when Lafleur was the offensive coordinator for the Rams. Lafleur was highly impressed with his preparation, intelligence, discipline, and knowledge  of the game. After Lafleur came to the Packers, he told Mannion to reach out if he ever felt like going into coaching.In January of 24, Mannion was about to interview with the Bears for their quarterback coaching position. He set up a Zoom call with Lafleur so Matt could critique his presentation, and Lafleur was so impressed he offered Mannion a job with the Packers.Over his years as a backup quarterback, several head coaches said he was going to be a head coach some day, and they often said that having him in a quarterback meeting was like having another quarterback coach in the room. Kirk Cousins (4 years older than Mannion), said that he learned as much from Mannion as he did from most coaches about how to prepare for a game, and how to organize and use information.I'm really looking forward to seeing what he brings  to the job. He may be a tremendous help to Love.Edit: a couple more interesting things about Mannion... he is tied with Alex Smith for the 8th highest Wonderlic score in the history of the NFL, 40 - which roughly correlates to an IQ of 140.  He received an interdisciplinary master's degree (which is a degree in which you combine 2 or more separate academic disciplines to prepare yourself for a complex and unique field of study... they're typically quite challenging) combining sociology, political science, and history. His GPA was 3.7. The dude's a brainiac. If he does indeed have coaching skills, he could be very successful for us.</blockquote>

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