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snowman
Kevin Demoff is the financial manager, first-in-line to manage the salary cap, he signs players to contracts. I doubt that he has a role in evaluating on-field talent or hiring and firing coaches or front office people. In his years with Tennessee, Fisher's titans never drafted an offensive lineman in the first round.
Demoff is what you say of course but he also participates in the draft process, probably not as an evaluator of talent but if nothing else I suppose to stay on top of it. As such in his various interviews over the years when asked about this or that draft he talks about it in detail. Mostly it's a case of him explaining the reasoning behind picks, and describing the process, and stuff like that.
You're right about Fisher in Tenn--and the Titans routinely fielded top OLs, too. If nothing else they had a great OL coach in Munchak. All OL coaches participate in picking linemen--I suppose the thinking is, you never want to give an OL coach a prospect he doesn't want. The difference is, guys like Munchak and Kromer are also good at picking them in the draft. Boudreau and Hanifan, both historically good OL coaches, were NOT very good at picking them in the draft.
The idea with GR was to develop him as a guard until he was able to replace Jake Long. They knew he was raw, but then fell victim to the new thing that has derailed OL drafting all around the league--it's harder now to assess college OL because the spread is so different in terms of OL play that they are now harder than ever to assess.
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