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PHDram
i think you can get a pretty good idea of the process based on 3 pieces of information.
1. the bobby wagner isiah pead situation.
2. the comments rgarding mo alexander.
3. snead is still with the rams.
1. if i recall correctly, fisher wanted bobby wagner and snead did some manuevering thinking they could pick up an extra pick and still get wagner but ended up with pead. this tells us that fisher identified players he wanted (likely based on sneads inout) and told snead to go get them.
2. similar situation here. fisher wanted mo. so much in fact they drafted him a bit earlry becasue they didnt have a fifth rounder (something like that). in fact the comments after the draft snead said that fisher suggested he did not want another boby wagner incident.
3. while the rams drafting is not as bad as some imply here, there have been some high profile misses. yet snead is still with the rams. KD is in the draft room. he knows who did what. if he thought snead was a bad evalautaor, i cant imagine KD keeping him.
overall, i suspect it was a collaborative process but ultimately the decision was fishers based on the comments regarding pead and alexnder. now i think snead has a year to prove with worth to mcvay. if not, next year mcvay and kd will search for his replacement.
1. I don;t think your #1 is correct as put. Fisher didn't say "go get THIS player." That's not how they talked about their own process and that's not what we heard reading about the process. They would have a ranked board determined in advance of the draft. As someone already said, that was usually ranked in groups--which players plural for which spot. Fisher had final say but he wasn't a scout so he listened. Snead could not have traded down in 2012 unless that was agreed upon...he didn;t have the authority to just do it.
When it got to the lower rounds it was different. Fisher himself said he didn't know which guard you take in the 5th or 6th round so he deferred more to the scouts and therefore Snead. That was still based on rankings they made before the draft.
2. There was a lot of input from coaches. Alexander was a Williams guy, and Robinson was a Boudreau guy. Part of Fisher's role was to get the players his coaches were hot on, depending on the situation.
3. All teams have misses, including the one high profile miss (Robinson). Not only, overall, was the Rams drafting better than a lot of the stanchest critics say it was, it was WAY better than the staunchest critics say it was. People wrangle over individual picks and on some that involves value judgments...for example I think if they use Tavon like they did in 2015 he's a good pick, some don't like him. That's just clashing opinions. A REAL BUST though looks like Tye Hill--he can't play at all, he's a wasted pick.
How the Fisher/Snead draft years get judged in the end, IMO, will depend on Goff.
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