Hard to compare to Wolf's peak because the situations are so different - both in the league as well as specifically in GB. Free agency was in its absolute infancy then - hard to think a Reggie White would just fall into your lap like happened for Wolf. And expectations going into Wolf's tenure were, well, nothing - they'd had what - two +.500 teams in the past 20 years? Wolf was the perfect GM, at that time, for that team. I highly doubt Gutekunst would have achieved the same. But by the same token, Wolf himself kind of indicated that he thought the game had passed him by - the rules changes in free agency, the draft, etc. made it a lot more difficult to achieve what he did in the early 90's.

Comparing Gute to Thompson, I first have to ask "which Ted Thompson"? I almost feel like there are two Ted Thompsons - the one pre-Super Bowl and the one after. It seems like Thompson's drafts before the Super Bowl win were markedly better than a lot of those after. Some of that, we now know, was declining health. So if we're comparing Gute to the Ted Thompson he replaced in 2018, then there's no comparison - Gute is better - he's had several drafts that eclipse anything Thompson did after 2014-15. But peak vs. peak? Gutekunst hasn't had the draft to compare with 2009 - the first 3 picks were Raji, Matthews, and Lang; that draft also had Brad Jones later. People also forget: the Rodgers draft in 2005 also featured the selection of Nick Collins in r2 - that's another draft with two HOF-caliber players (if only Collins hadn't been hurt). Free Agency, though - while Ted had his moments (Woodson, Pickett, Peppers to name a few), I feel like there were too many years where he chose to just do nothing, whereas Gute has been more aggressive his entire tenure, and (until 2025) has largely been successful with the free agent choices he has made. So in that respect, I would prefer Gute. But then, looking at his talent evaluations: I'm not saying Thompson got every player right (he certainly had his share of individual bad misses - particularly his first round picks), but I don't ever recall feeling like there was an entire position group that just got steadily worse no matter how many resources he threw at it, as compared to Gutekunst and the offensive line of late. So overall, I give the nod to Thompson.

I won't consider Schneider because I know too little about the Seahawks to have an informed opinion. I will say this, though: Around that 2010-2011 time frame, GB's front office lost several people - Schneider left for Seattle, someone else passed on, and others left for higher positions. As you would expect for a Super Bowl team. And I still feel that talent drain contributed to the decline in quality of Ted's later drafts. He still had some decent drafts, but never the heights reached in 2009 - especially in the first round. How much of that was related specifically to Schneider, I can't say. But I think, in some ways, they're still trying to recover/rebuild that aspect of the team.

I think the most damning thing overall for Gutekunst, as far as roster construction, is that there have just been too many out-and-out bad choices - choices that went against consensus - where EVERYONE'S evaluation said "Player A is better than Player B" but Gute took Player B. Or the consensus was player A is a 5th round talent, and Gute takes him way higher. Problem is: these decisions often have come up craps. Josh Myers over Creed Humphrey being exhibit A, but there have been others as well. And not just draft choices. NO ONE saw the contract they handed Aaron Banks and said 'Wow, GB got a great deal there!!' The consensus was 'overpay', and also, 'why would you pay that much to a guy with health concerns?'. Also, paying Hobbs - who had never been anything but a slot corner - a crap-ton of money to come in and play outside corner. And where are the biggest gaps on the team right now? OL and Corner. Would we be better off if he'd paid 1/2 of Banks money to a Kevin Zeitler (or someone else)? Maybe we could then have taken the other half of Banks' money and given it to (along with Hobbs' money) to a real top-end CB instead? Or what if we had Creed Humphrey at C instead of Rhyan? If I were Policy, these are the kinds of things I'd be looking at in my evaluation of Gutekunst... There's just too many things IMO that anyone paying attention was saying "yeah, that's pretty sketchy" - and not with hindsight, but right at the moment...