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LesBaker
“I’m so busy here, I was honestly unaware he was extended. I’m being honest with you, we’re just working here,” Fisher said. “I look at this as being my responsibility, the win-loss record. We need to do a better job from a personnel standpoint. We’ve had some unfortunate things take place with some high picks in Stedman Bailey and Tre Mason and those kinds of things you don’t anticipate.
Albert Breer has a pretty solid rep and he has a source that says there is a rift between Fisher and Snead, and calls the FO a Jr. High. Maybe he is taking some journalistic freedom using the term neutron bomb, and I think he is possibly doing just that. But this is the only guy who is claiming a source and not using the ESPN model of "reporting" so the only question is the normal one..........how good is his source...........
My question is does Fisher point the finger at himself here, which is how I read it when I first went through it. He has final say so the buck stops thee I would think. But the way this article portrays it the blame is being pushed to Snead who does not have final say. Unless he does and nobldy knew it. We've always heard they try to have or build consensus but Fisher pulls the trigger.
The Jr. High remark is the first one we have heard even remotely like that, so I'll hold off commenting until we hear more, that could simply be an opinion from a low level guy that heard a behind closed doors argument. Losing causes friction and it's possible there is friction between Snead and Fisher but nothing has been evident to date.
Yeah, I dunno. While this article contains more facts than Bonsignore's and Plaschke's, the facts it has (back story on a scouting rift that was solved a year ago), it doesn't have anything new from the inside except for the one quote from an unidentified source.
It relies on one statement from Fisher at a press conference, and the fact that the Rams’ temporary headquarters in Thousand Oaks is called “Rams Junior High” which he asserts is due to “bickering and finger-pointing.”
Now, I don’t read press conferences very often, but this is the first time all year I have heard any allegation of bickering and finger-pointing. The first time. And while the offices may be called Rams Junior High, I wonder if the origins of that have something more to do with the temporary nature of the offices, the fact they are moving to something Bigger in the future, and the Rams losing record. Where is this bickering?
And Fisher’s comment: “We need to do a better job from a personnel standpoint” is true, first of all, but also could include coaches as you point out. Coaches are personnel. He follows that up with Bailey and Mason as examples of personnel problems which is certainly not a shot at Snead, either.
Then he has “one Rams source.” Who is that? It's not even necessarily an employee. You could call Bonsignore a Rams source. It's not a "front office source." It's a "Rams source." Whatever that means
I will say the article has more of a tone of legitimacy than some of its predecessors this week, but I remain skeptical of this. I still think what we are mostly seeing here is the agitation of losing. There is blood in the water, and the media is circling around it because conflict is always exciting.