First. Rams personnel acquistion has always been good. The "glitch" before was the occasional free agent who only came aboard because he was a former Fisher guy (and actually outside of that they were decent with FAs too). So for example imagine this team right now without Goff or Donald. '

Second, it is NEVER ever only Snead. He loves to take max credit when interviewed, but that defies the actual Rams process. The Rams were and still are collaborative. On drafts they stack the board as a group (top coaches and personnel people). The Rams GM is not an overlord type, he's a collaboration type who works hard to get coaches the kinds of players they like. '

And even that doesn't always work because Peters is just not a Phillips type and in fact to accommodate him they had to change the defense (more zone than Phillips ever usually did).

So 2 things. That balance.

1. It's just never ALL Snead. He doesn't work that way and the Rams don't work that way. They didn't when it was Fisher/Snead and they don't when it's Snead/McVay.

2. On the other hand anyone who tries to dismiss or downplay Snead's input and contributions will be false. He is a huge contributor--but he is a huge contributor in a COLLABORATIVE process.

Though give Snead a chance in an interview and he will always act like it was all mostly up to him. He just is a take-credit junkie sometimes. But you look at ALL the evidence and the thing that holds up is the idea that they were and are collaborative.

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