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Rams43
Since when did Snead start handling negotiations?

Zn, you, of all people know better than that. Lol.

Have I slipped into the twilight zone?

The GM does not directly negotiate but then the negotiator does not simply make stuff up on his own with no direction from football people. The Rams arrangement at that point was that Fisher was the man with final say during the season but in the off-season, for much of the time that was Snead when Fisher was absent. Fisher was actually absent on vacation when the Jenkins deal happened. He left with instructions that he wanted Jenkins signed, and when he came back, Jenkins had left. The way a deal like that would work is that the contracts guy is not working on his own, he is working within parameters set by whoever the football guy in charge is (and we don't want a world where the contracts guy is free to make up his own parameters). What apparently happened is that Snead balked at a higher price for Jenkins who then walked. The problem is, what Jenkins signed for was more or less the going rate for a starting CB's 2nd contract that year. So if any Ram blew it, it was Snead.