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PaulButcher59
Snead basically became Fishers puppet and couldn’t perform his job of GM the way he wanted to. It was Fishers show for 5 years. Horrible signing but at least they got it right once they finally fired him.
It didn't work that way and you can tell it didn't work that way. Snead was as much a collaborative GM then as he is now. Fisher did not sit there and dictate 4th, 5th, and 6th rounders. They put their board together through consensus and stuck by their board on draft day. All fights they had to work through were worked through when they ranked their board. If someone of significance, coach or GM, objected to a player, he was taken off the board.
Fisher had his own preferences in free agency and that's the way that goes with a head coach who has final say. That does not make the other guy his "puppet."
In fact they kept Snead because he had a GOOD record in personnel decisions, as is born out by this team, which is a winning team partly because it is stocked with so much inherited talent.
You don;t keep a guy who was just a puppet as your GM. You keep a guy who was a good GM as your GM. Which is what they did.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2017 02:42PM by zn.
