Given McVay's mental set, Snead navigates the territory he must very well.
Let's ask ourselves: What if... Snead drafted the players HE wanted in opposition to what McVay wanted? How would McVay respond? I think he'd go nuts.
After their "chance" seaside meeting on "vacation" in Mexico, McVay tols Snead,
"I want Stafford!" Snead got him. Result: Super Bowl. McVay wanted Henderson and that other guy who had a difference, it turned out, with the head coach's philosophy and refused to perform. Snead got them. Then McVay wanted two more running backs that fit his mold. Snead got them. Snead has to bend and stgretch to collaborate with McVay, who is headstrong, impulsive and perseveraying at the same time, and with a certain mental acuity and recall that is off the charts.
When it works it works.
Snead had to phrase his statements to McVay during this last draft to "engineer" McVay's rhetorical agreement to getting Verse and Fiske. I broke it down at the time.
As McVay learns to
trust and
delegate instead of
control, (and that's a slow process for people like him,) and hold lightly where he should instead of hanging on, he'll soar to new heights in his role as head coach offensive playcaller game manager personnel administrator public relations spokesman defacto chef executive and cheerleader.
He'll come to understand, over time, that while he can do it all, his organization does better when he focuses on what he does best, and delegates bits and pieces of the rest.
