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David Deacon
Snead has done a great job.
Before McVay came he drafted a Hall of Fame DT Aaron Donald. He risked everything and made a huge trade to draft a franchise QB in Goff. He drafted Gurley an all pro running back. He had a playoff quality roster in place for McVay.
Snead did make a few mistakes but so has every other GM. He also had to acquire Fisher type players where the above the shoulders was under emphasized.
Fisher also was not very good at developing the talent especially on the offensive side of the ball.
Who knew how good the talent was that Snead had acquired until we got a decent coach in place to take advantage of them.
I will say that Snead has gotten better with age and is now one of the top GM's in the game. Oh Yea he led the coaching search which is another Home Run.
He also works great with McVay as they are one in their thinking when it comes to player acquisition and roster construction. That is a blessing beyond our understanding I think.
Well I think absolutely, Snead did a good job, though he also grew on the job, like you say. But he didn't make any of the final decisions. (He doesn't now either.) Rams drafts don't get down to one guy, like they do in places where they have an Uber Type GM. We know from a lot of documentation how the Rams draft, and it is a collaborative process. So he didn't choose Goff. The Rams did (coaches and Snead both). Same with the bad picks like Robinson.
The poor picks before were just poor picks, though. No one has done anything with Quick. Robinson took 5 years to get to even where he is now--I think he's just a slow learner. No one did anything with Austin after 2014-15 (and that's 3 different coaches.) My view is, Goff was going to have a rough rookie year no matter where he went. Etc.
Anyway, on process. They weren't Snead's picks before and they aren't McVay's picks now. What we keep hearing--from everyone, then and now---is that the whole process is collaborative from the get-go.
