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Snead basically became Fishers puppet and couldn’t perform his job of GM the way he wanted to. It was Fishers show for 5 years. Horrible signing but at least they got it right once they finally fired him.
It didn't work that way and you can tell it didn't work that way. Snead was as much a collaborative GM then as he is now. Fisher did not sit there and dictate 4th, 5th, and 6th rounders. They put their board together through consensus and stuck by their board on draft day. All fights they had to work through were worked through when they ranked their board. If someone of significance, coach or GM, objected to a player, he was taken off the board.
Fisher had his own preferences in free agency and that's the way that goes with a head coach who has final say. That does not make the other guy his "puppet."
In fact they kept Snead because he had a GOOD record in personnel decisions, as is born out by this team, which is a winning team partly because it is stocked with so much inherited talent.
You don;t keep a guy who was just a puppet as your GM. You keep a guy who was a good GM as your GM. Which is what they did.
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Also I’m not saying Snead is a puppet, but he was Fisher’s puppet. We will never know exactly how much say Snead had, but we know it was very little based on the fact that we know Fisher had full control and those high draft picks and free agents were his calls.
Demoff kept Snead because:
A) Demoff originally personally brought in Snead and hired him with Fishers approval. They had a relationship prior to Fishers hire.
b) after witnessing how much Snead’s hands were tied with Fisher having full control, he knew Sneads GM role was very limited and he knew Snead was capable of a lot more if they hired a new head coach who did not have full control. IE) McVay
Snead has MUCH more say now in personnel moves with McVay than he ever did with Fisher. It’s a much better combination.Fisher is a fossil that never wanted to evolve while McVay is the complete opposite. It looks like the Rams have a great combo now with Snead and McVay.
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George Bernard Shaw
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2017 03:11PM by PaulButcher59.
