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Rampage2K-
My guess it was Snead who was the one who was smart enough to get the ball rolling on the trade up.
Snead did not have the power to do that. Fisher had contractually guaranteed final say. The GM reported to the coach, not the other way around.
And so here's the GM and the head coach and the coordinators meeting after the season. And they go, well what do we need. And they go, a qb. So the question becomes, how. Trade? Free agency? How about trading up for a top rookie? UNLESS the GM and head coach agreed on that it was never going to happen. Though if anyone had the power to mandate it, it was the head coach, because of his final say power.
And so we know what happened next. They went on the road and worked out the 2 qbs. As the record shows, Fisher liked Goff.
Then, and only then, did Snead go out and try to make the trade happen. As GM he did the negotiating and nuts and bolts stuff with things like that. We know how this went (the mechanics of the trade) because there was a multi-page, very much in depth MMQB article about the trade process with the Titans and how it went.
We don't have to guess about these things. They left a very fat, long record of how they did these things.
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