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rambleon
If he can't be held responsible for bad contracts and draft picks, what the heck is his job??

I do agree that it's good to see us bringing in smarter guys with a bigger focus on 'mindset', but that could easily be chalked up to the McVay-colored glasses I'm wearing.

Contracts are just simply not Snead's responsibility.

He is in charge of the personnel dept. and does scouting himself too. He's not an overlord GM in charge of everything--the Rams don't use that model. They use a different model that's out there, where the GM is not a Polian type who runs the team, but is basically the head of all college and pro scouting and an advisor to the head coach.

And he can be held responsible for the drafts and is, which is why I am always saying good job Snead (the Rams draft better than average on the whole and regularly score signing UDFAs).

Technically Fisher had final say when he was the coach, because he was the more experienced guy; technically Snead has final say now, because he is more veteran than McVay. But the Rams don't have a model where the guy with final say just dictates everything and picks who he wants. The model the Rams use with Snead is to build a consensus ranked board weeks before the draft. Any wrangling is done at that point. They then stick by their board (with an eye for fits and needs while accounting for what they already have). So on draft day, it's not easy to say "whose pick it was" because by putting the board together collaboratively they are using a consensus model.

Plus Snead sees his job as listening to the coaches and finding out what KINDS of players they like for their respective systems. Therefore if he does his job right the picks look like McVay guys. That doesn't mean McVay did 12 months of scouting from the ground up. It means Snead, who DOES do 12 months of scouting, learns to look through all of it for guys who fit McVay's parameters. Therefore as I said if Snead is doing his job, then McVay should be getting good versions of the kinds of players he needs.


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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2017 11:26AM by zn.