As for which specific players Snead identified or which ones Fisher wanted, we’ll never know.
It was never like that. The scouts and GM scouted, when they could the coaches joined in, then they spent days ranking the players.
The key is the ranking. Once a guy is ranked, it does not matter who wanted him or who identified him. Big long conversations go into ranking players. At the end of the ranking process they have their board. The board is not the expression of one guy’s thing.
I disagree with that. I know they rank players. But that isn’t science, exactly. It’s preference. And often players may have somewhat equal rankings so is it a coin flip? I doubt it. I would think that “fit” plays a part of that. Certainly need. But are you saying that if Fisher really wanted a guy–like Goff over Wentz–it had no effect? That may be the company line but I’m not buying it. And honestly–a good GM should listen to his coach on a lot of this.
I just don’t think it’s simply a clinical sort of ranking and that’s that. There isn’t always that huge of a gap in ranked players. Preference has to come in to play.
And on draft day they may well work from their board–but I think the GM AND coach must have a say in how that board is set.
Now I do not mean that Fisher is scouting every player. Maybe that’s what it looked like but I didn’t really mean that. But I’m sure there were disagreements.
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