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I find it difficult to grade Snead because I don't know what picks were Snead's and what picks were Fisher. Did Fisher want GRob? Was Snead in favor of someone else? Without knowing the back story for every pick made during Fisher's tenure we won't know what Snead's track record really is. I don't think we as fans will ever know, either. But Demoff knows ... and he kept Snead. Doesn't that say something? (It does to me ...)
It was never like that. It was never "whose picks are these." It didn't work that way.
The real work came weeks before the draft when they set their board. They would hash things out and come out with rankings. That was a group effort including scouts, coaches, Fisher, and Snead.
Then on draft day they stuck by their board. Obviously there was some flexibility---at any given pick they might have 3-4 different guys ranked evenly as viable picks, but even when that happened they would have consensus by the time the pick was made.
It was never a process where the Rams would be on the clock and someone would just tell everyone else who the pick was going to be.
When there's a consensus model like that, there's no such thing as "whose pick it was."
Obviously with McVay the consensus, and what they're looking for in players, will be different. Same model, different participants, different emphasis.
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Question, zn.
When setting the draft board, wasn't Fisher still the final say on tiebreakers?
And isn't it true that Snead was required to eval and try to stack only "Fisher type" players?
These are rhetorical questions, so no need to reply.