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bigjimram21
Oh I agree, He landed Wentz, and signing Foles was fortuitous, no way he thought he would perform as well as he did. And he did build the team.
But Snead had a hand in the talent with the Rams and they together brought in even more. Like I said ,moving forward with the contracts coming up
will be a challenge, as will finding players to plug in and keep on top.
I am a big Snead advocate and was defending him back in early 2017 when he was under fire.
Snead is good at personnel acquisition.
He is NOT an experienced veteran team builder and at times, it shows. One comparison with Phil is just one example, don't get hung up on it. There are other examples.
Obviously I am not quibbling with the results, and no one is suggesting they won't learn.
But the alternative is to say they've been perfect, which is just simply not the case.
Well if they haven't been perfect, then, where are the warts? IMO one is that they do not seem to have the deep savvy that comes from veteran team building awareness.
Another example is Peters. Bright package, glitzy promise, but it turns out it took the DC half a season to figure out how he could and could not use him. Somewhere there was a misstep in determining whether or not he was an immediate fit. Then there was Donald. They didn't sign him in 2017 because they refused to negotiate with a hold out. (That's according to them.) Then in 2018, they reverse that and decided to negotiate, hold out or no hold out. Which of course worked just fine. Well time and trouble (and money) would be saved if they just arrived at that conclusion in the first place, back in 2017.
They have so much going for them (Snead and McVay) that they clearly overcome glitches like that.
And I look forward to the day when they are far more veteran and savvy when it comes to team-building issues and don't have as many stumbles and rough edges. But if someone had put me in charge in 2017, I would have hired a real football savvy team president who balanced out all that stuff and set a smoother course.
Why mention this? Because an overall honest eval would include things like that, even if they are far from fatal flaws.
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