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spagsbacker
The approach of trading draft picks for players ruined our salary cap and we are now paying for it. It almost worked, Ill give him that, but lets not forget the play in NO which should have prevented us from getting to the SB. Really, we should have won the year before...that was the better team, but a real bad loss to Atlanta ended the surprise season.
Hiring McVay whoever made that call was a good move.
I just don't think when it comes for having an eye for talent, Snead has proven himself capable. Between way too many 1st and 2nd round misses to the dumb strategy of eschewing inexpensive rookie talent for expensive veterans (Ramsey, Cooks, etc...) is NOT how you build a team for long haul.
He also pushed in all his chips for the VERY questionable J Goff. He is in the bottom 3rd of QBs in the league...maybe quarter. Anyone who saw the Super Bowl must question if he is a legit franchise qb....he is not.
Trading 2 1sts for Ramsey when it was apparent this was not our year? Dumb. Trading the almost as talented M Peters for pennies on the dollar? Dumb.
You guys keep fawning all over the guy. Snead has no talent or eye for it.
First, the play in NO played out exactly how it did, the Rams went to the SB and you cannot argue they should have never been there, unless you want to make up stuff that didn't happen to strengthen your case against Snead.
You know danged well who hired McVay. It was a group effort with Pastoors, Snead, Demoff and Kroenke. With an assist from Marshall Faulk, Wolfgang Puck, AD, Fergie, Josh Duhammel and Jared Goff.
Demoff and Snead spearheaded the McVay hiring.
As far as the 'dumb" strategy of trading picks for expensive vets. I have been against that since day 1. I have been told by posters that I don't like it because I'm a "draft guy" that hates seeing 1st and 2nd round picks traded away. I have been defending myself from that stuff on this board for years now on this. So no, I didn't like it. And no, I didn't think it would work. But you know what I'm not doing? Posting in here how smart i am, and how I called this happening years ago. So what. it is what is and you move on. And for the record, this isn't Snead doing this alone. He has the cap guys and coaches all involved in this. It is too big of a plan to do on your own.
Trading 2 firsts for Ramsey when it wasn't the Rams year is "dumb"? Ramsey isn't a 1 or 2 year rental. he's a longterm bluechipper Alpha that doesn't come around but once every 10 years. There isn't a CB in this draft or next years that has his talent. Esp drafting at 20 overall. So no, not dumb.
Another thing about expensive contracts to players. You complain about handing them out to Cooks or Ramsey or Gurley, but you will never be happy. If Snead swings and misses on a draft pick, he has no eye. If he hits and the guy plays himself into a big contract, Snead shouldn't pay him either, because he may get injured or have an off year or whatever. Pick a lane. Any lane.
A very questionable Jared Goff? Are you talking about trading for him or the contract they just gave him? The general consensus within the draft community was its Goff or Wentz and then everyone else. Rams needed a QB so they went and got one. There was no other play.
If you are talking about the contract, you must not read ZN, and thats a shame, cuz the man knows his stuff. Goff got what a QB coming into his 2nd contract should get. There is no way around that fact. Wentz got it, Prescott will get it, Mahommes will get it, etc etc.
And bottom 1/4 or 1/3? In what sense? QB rating? QBR? yards? TDs? comp %? He wasn't the year before when the line was good, or the year before that when the line was also good. Your recency bias is showing.
As far as fawning all over the guy, its so strange that in a world of shades of grey fans live in a black and white world. I have my issues with Snead, I also like some of the stuff he has done. Like when he copied half my mock draft and drafted JJ3 and Kupp lol. I think he is an above average GM, that has room to improve, but has built this roster into a SB contender after years of sub 500 play. So no its not: you either love what he has done or hate what he has done. There is plenty of middle ground. If your willing to have an open mind.
Don't waste your time looking back, you're not going that way. - Ragnar Lothbrok