Russ Ball, who servers as Green Bay's cap expert and aides Ted Thompson in football scouting, could be the NFL's next top general manager candidate. "I'd hire him,'' McCarthy told The Journal Sentinel's Bob McGinn. "He's the best I've been around ... Russ manages the cap, but his people skills are second to none. He gives Ted the ability to be a GM and for me to be a coach. He is as involved as he [can be] in the personnel part of it.''