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zn
Snead's role as a GM is to find out what kinds of players the coaches need for their systems. He's not an uberlord style GM. He's a "boss of personnel scouting" style GM.
But he's a veteran who knows what the Rams have and don't, is evidently very good at listening to the coaches when they describe what they like, pulls off good deals, etc.
None of this would be as easy with a new GM.
AND the Rams are not in rebuild mode. They altered/improved a couple of positions. LOT, WR. The rest is inherited talent.
In Seattle in 2012, Carroll finally started winning. That was his third year. That year there were only 3 starters on the entire team who were there before he arrived in 2010. And one of those 3 was the punter. The Rams are in nothing like that situation.
I wouldn't trade McVay for any coach in the league right now, not even BB, who I just simply dislike. BUT McVay walked into a pretty good situation. There were some fixes that needed attention (WR, LOT) but he is not starting over from scratch.
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I agree with every single bit of your post but for that last sentence, zn. I think that you understate the changes both required and executed by S&M.
McVay and Snead were faced with far more than fixes required at WR and LOT.
Just on the O they made the following personnel changes as their starters:
Whit
Sully
Higbee
Woods
Watkins
Kupp
Then there’s the dramatic improvement in teaching, scheming, and playcalling that has transformed both Goff and Gurley. Hav and Brown haven’t exactly suffered, either.
Don’t know about you, but the above qualifies as profound changes in our O for their first year where I come from.
Just want to give S&M their full deserved credit. Especially McVay.