Jim Popp who has been the only GM of the Montreal Alouettes since they were brought back into the CFL in 1996 is going to be the new GM of the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League and will be bring the head coach of the Alouettes Marc Trestman with him to become the new head coach of the Colts. Jim Popp has a great track record in scouting talent and managing a football club that in the CHL has to have 11 Canadians on the field between offense and defense and since the turn of the century he built a team that has played in 8 of the Championship games since then and if he can find talent Canadian and non-Canadian then he will be able to build a winner around either Payton Manning or Andrew Luck or even both. Jim Irsay Friday tweeted that Popp was a dark horse for the job and that he was going to be interviewing 7 candidates for the job on the weekend and when he is done interview all 7 candidates for the job he will realize that Jim Popp is the man for the job. There is a little tiny problem with Jim Popp's contract in Montreal and that is that it goes it the end of the 2014 season after he was in line for a front office position in Washington but there is no way that the Montreal Alouettes will stand in Popp way of advancement to the NFL as The Colts could buy out the rest of his contract. Then there is Marc Trestman who has been head coach of the Alouettes for four seasons and made the Grey Cup the first three seasons he has been there and won it in both 2009 and 2010 and has given the Alouettes' quarterback Anthony Calvio the tools to win the big game because before Trestman he would get to the dance and then not be getting to dance with the princess but in 2009 and '10 he got to dance with the beautiful princess. Trestman has been linked to NFL jobs almost immediately after his second year as head coach and he could better Payton Manning and teach Andrew Luck how to refine his skills and in a couple of seasons he will be like Arron Rogers untouchable.
Colts will make the right call
Tom Mehegan
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