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ferragamo79
I read posts how Snead is one of the top executives for building the team and other times Fisher other times McVay
None of this is a mystery. The record on this is long and transparent. Since their process is no different with McVay than with Fisher, that's 6 solid years of very detailed insight. It includes interviews and press conferences with Fisher, Snead, Demoff, and McVay. It includes a few outside reporters who were embedded in the process and wrote at length about it. If I included all those sources here would take me days to post it all.
The Rams draft always worked this way, with Fisher and with McVay. When it was time the entire personnel staff plus coaches would draw up a ranked board. They worked through consensus to rank the board and then stuck to the board on draft day. Snead is not an overlord GM---his job is to be chief personnel advisor to the head coach. He sees himself as finding out what kinds of players the head coach wants and needs to run the offensive and defensive systems. So his drafts will always be tilted that way---Snead is trying to find what Fisher/Wms want at DB and what McVay wants at TE etc. He has a huge input because the personnel people scout 12 months a year while the coaches only scout 1 month a year. So it has been run the same way from 2012-16 when Fisher had contractually stipulated final say, and it worked the same way when Snead had contractually stipulated final say (which happened with the McVay hire).
That means the coaches (Fisher and McVay) put their stamp on a draft, and will often be outspoken and take the lead when it comes to ranking the 1st guy or 2 on the board that they can take. But as the draft goes through the rounds they have to rely more on the personnel people because scouts know more about which guard to take in round 5 etc.
If Snead was not good at his job then the drafts would suffer. He knows more about all the players they look at. If the head coach doesn't have strong ideas it doesnt work either. Plus, as Fisher said directly, if when they are ranking players anyone who has a major say objects, that player is taken off the board. So Fisher was never going to take a player Snead didn't like.
It was then, and is now, collaborative.
So when Fisher says he picked this team he's right. He would have direct strong views on the 1st pick and in the lower rounds. the GM would have to be very in tune with the kind of player that fit what the coaches were looking for.
And Snead has heavy involvement, which includes of course finding guys that fit what the coaches wanted.
You are trying to imply someone was dishonest about how they attributed credit. To me that just means you never quite fully listened to what was said about the drafting process.
It wouldn't have worked if either side of the collaboration---Fisher/McVay, Snead--was deficient.
There was no dishonesty. Just a lack of understanding between us about what was really said.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/29/2017 08:26AM by zn.
