I'll read the article (and look at the byline) after I've posted my answer.
1.) Keep the Ram's and McVay's culture, vision, unique sense of connection with his players and staff, and Snead's established sense of quality football and what makes it alive and build on it. Time to part ways with conventional wisdom, pull away from the pack. (Badasses or dumbasses eventually, inevitably, will drag you down. 49ers already dealing with dissention, self-oriented whining. That yeast can spread through the whole loaf, and Shanny doesn't set the tone that McVay does.) Keep bringing in players who are good people and who love the game, have a sense of humor, are intelligent enough to have the mental capacity to instantaneously process their assignments within the game, and who are team-oriented.
2.) Keep the players who got you this far, will get you where you want to go, and trim the deadwood. Do that and cap room will take care of itself.
3.) Continue to build O line and D line dominance.
4.) Be willing to pay money for a money kicker.
5.) Get immediate help in the defensive secondary. What we have is sub-standrd. (Me? I'd go all-out to draft Quin Mitchell.)
6.) Edge? We still don't know what we will have in camp with last year's rookies, and the free agent and trade markets look thin. Maybe we draft a starter. In Snead I trust, for this and other positions that are not top priority.
