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Most glaringly on the O-line, but also in the secondary. Our biggest "hit" in the secondary IMO was Jenkins, who is now pro-bowling it on the other side of the country. Hitting on Gurley and Donald (and Hekker and to a lesser extent, Big Z and Benny C) are simply feathers in his cap. To use a college metaphor, I can ace a few tests and a homework assignment here and there, but fail the course due to many other areas of abysmal work.
Snead's just got to go.
Remember, ARF, that we'll never know how many of Snead's recommendations were overridden by Fisher. But I'm sure that there were quite a few.
Then there is the fact that Snead was required to find "Fisher type" players. Might have created a self fulfilling prophecy situation, you know?
Besides, should we be crucifying Snead when Fisher fails to develop rookies?
However, I do now believe that Snead will be gone. This organization needs a strategic thinking "football exec" GM rather than just a glorified Director of Personnel. Hopefully, a Reggie McKenzie type.
That's not how they operated.
There was no "Snead's decisions" and there was no "overriding."
We know how this worked because it was discussed many times.
First, Snead did not have the final say, the coach did. That structure is likely to continue. So Snead would not be "deciding" any thing. He was effectively the chief of scouting and would do the hard grinding work and have a lot of say in how they ranked players. But ranking was a group effort with Fisher having a huge voice in it. The scouts would have more influence the lower the round was...but with the obvious high picks, they had discussions and ranked players, with Fisher basically the biggest vote in discussions and rankings the higher the pick.
The best you can come up with is that maybe sometimes Fisher didn't take Snead's recommendation sometimes. And you're right we'll never know that.
It's the same system in Seattle, among other places. Schneider is a top judge of talent with a lot of knowledge and a lot to say, but Carroll is the big brother of the 2 and the car's in his name.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/26/2016 09:30AM by zn.
