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We seem to have a different take on Snead, Paul.
I like him and I like his overall results.
I further believe that Snead was handicapped by Fisher's interference in certain FA decisions and on multiple draft decisions.
Not saying that Snead has been perfect, heaven knows.
Know what? If McVay turns around some of these Fisher coached underachievers, I think that that would be strong evidence that our bigger problem was coaching and not merely talent evals by Snead.
I mean, if just one O player performs above league average on O under McVay, wouldn't that be better than Fisher's 5 year O player development record?
I do believe that because of all the power Demoff and Kroenke gave Fisher, it makes it very hard to evaluate Snead as a GM, but he just cannot get a free pass all together.
I`m very interested to see his moves as a GM with this new regime. Time will tell.
And its always been more of a Demoff/Kroenke failure to me than a Snead/Fisher failure with personnel moves.
Agree that it's hard to evaluate Snead because of Fisher's final say authority. I doubt that we'll ever really know how much Fisher affected Snead's priorities.
And I agree that Snead's future moves will be his responsibility. He's still on something of a hot seat until proven otherwise. A warm seat, anyway.
Kinda disagree about blaming Kroenke/ Demoff for personnel moves. Kroenke is a classic hands off delegator type owner. Demoff executes trades and negotiates contracts as recommended by the GM/HC. Demoff does not initiate personnel moves on his own. I do think that Demoff sets limits on contract ceilings on players such as Jenkins, for example. But even then I believe that only occurs after consultation with the GM and HC.