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PHDram
i acknowledge that in a perfect world the draft runs the way you suggest in #1 and that it may possibility run that way in real life. the problem i have is that the world is NOT perfect. well meaning and congenial people will disagree even after hours of a consensus building process. for example in 2013 the draft went
1 Jadeveon Clowney
2 Greg Robinson
3 Blake Bortles
4 Sammy Watkins
5 Khalil Mack
obviously the rams choose robinson. however, its very possible that robsinson was NOT snead's PERSONAL choice for the position.
The Rams draft runs that way in real life, not in an ideal world.
And has since 2012.
There is abundant evidence to support that and absolutely none to contradict it.
I think some people are just hunting for speculative ways to blame and/or exonerate someone who for some reason they feel the need to blame or exonerate. Nothing out there supports speculation like that. Nothing wrong with speculating but in this case speculation has a huge wall of evidence to get over and I don't see any ladders out there to help with that. Personally, I am a big-time Snead advocate myself and defended him in the 2017 off-season when some were claiming he was awful and had to go. But multiple sources, some inside the Rams hierarchy and some reporters allowed inside repeatedly talked about the Rams draft process across the years, and still do (and they all spoke independently from one another in various venues...it includes Demoff along with Snead and Fisher and some coaches along the way). It's just way too much too overlook, ignore, or try to dismiss through speculation.
So I have defended Snead but at the same time the Robinson pick is what it is--he was absolutely in on it, and AT THE TIME it seemed reasonable.
Recently Snead explained his thinking on the Robinson pick...it was a case of swinging for the fences. What he did not say is that Boudreau was big time behind the pick, but we know THAT from things Boudreau said.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2019 08:29AM by zn.
