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PHDram
to me its pretty clear. Snead collected the information, put the draft board together, did a lot of the moving and shaking during the draft day and made recommendations, but "the pick" came down to fisher. as in any group decsion making process (including every draft room) there is not likely to be 100 percent agreement. in cases where snead and fisher disagreed, someone ultimately must have final say and all signals point to fisher (including the fact that he was fired and snead was not).

currently, its my understanding that snead has final say (like fisher before him) and will be held accountable for his performance.

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The_Bad_Guy
... told me several years ago that Fisher was in control of who the Rams were drafting.

Somebody who should know.

The way the Rams did it the "pick" never came down to one person.

You need a guy who has final say because on draft day you can't sit there locked into a tie not knowing what to do. But that's a completely hypothetical situation. It didn't work like that.

As I said elsewhere, the Rams model is to build a ranked board weeks before the draft and then stick to that board. Putting the board together is collaborative and based on consensus. Coaches have input, personnel people have input. Meanwhile of course the personnel people also consider it part of their job to find players that fit what coaches want.

The Rams were never in a position where as a pick approached they had no idea who they wanted. It wasn't like that. Nor was it Fisher just picking people. The real work went into making the ranked board they then stuck by on draft day.

How do we know any of this? Because each year they talked at length and in detail about the draft process. A few times outside reporters went in and wrote about the process. It was all right out there in the open. Read all that stuff, and you get a very clear picture how they operated.


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