Rams GM Search Continues, Surrounded By Questions About Roster Control

Hiring Fisher over a GM means we’re committed to him as HC over a GM, and for me, I’d rather have a great GM who knows when to pull the plug on a coach if they under perform.

If we could have got an elite GM candidate like the Ravens dude, we’d be in a position to build a team the correct way.

Now we’re limited to finding a good enough puppet for Fisher, when a coach, especially one with such an unflattering history, should not be the one calling the shots with regards to roster control.
They should most certainly have the majority of a say in the final roster, simply because the coach will know better, but having a GM who can go out and search for FAs and prospects unhampered by executive control means our searches can be more thought out and beneficial to the Rams in the long term.

We went ALL in on a coach who just isn’t as good as we want him to be, and now we’re suffering with regards to having an accountable figurehead GM who can keep the team progressing in an identified direction (without distractions). Not to mention the awful OC hire.

What I mean about a figurehead GM is someone who is good at finding talent and filling the roster with it, and therefore can be maintained should the coach not provide the results for him and need to be fired. We’d be able to have a systematic consistency with regards to talent acquisition and have accountability run from the top down.

With this current set up we have an all powerful HC who, should he fail, set the team back a couple more years due to the need to completely rebuild AGAIN.

If he feels pressure from Kroenke Fisher will now have the power to sacrifice sustained success for immediate job security, just how Devaney and Spags managed to fuck up last year. The loss of vision and direction is what cost them their jobs imo. The team wasn’t building TO anything after the McD hire, regardless of their many valid reasons for being retained, that was the crucial element to me.

Sorry for the essay but I’m deeply unhappy in the way this team is being built and can only hope free agency, the draft and the upcoming season can prove me wrong and signal towards a bright, superbowl glittered future.

to select the right GM who will work in tandem with the Head Coach, than suffer through Billy Devaney the Second. Spagnoulo would’ve been much more successful with a better group of players to select from, which were provided by the former GM. I can’t blame Fisher for wanting a say in who he will coach, his job is on the line dictated by the players provided.

I’d like this team to hire a GM who will revamp an apparently broken Scout Staff and FO that will actually be able to select talent throughout the draft and have them stick with the team, for a change.

Is he busy? How about Lake Speed?

I guess the Texans guy would work, they have some good players, finally won the division this year thanks to broke Peyton

trying to find the right fit…even if it looks bad. This is the most important position to fill for this team IMO.

Also the fact that Fisher gets a say if he really smells something bad cant be bad either. Picking good players is obviously more of an art than a science. Having a person that has coached professional football players has insight that a scout would not.

But the more time we take, the more off season workouts our GM misses due to not being in place. We had an off season in 2009 that we mis handled by not having our shit together until after the combine was over. As a reasult we were tremendously compromised in our knowledge of the draft prospects. The FO even used it as an excuse to screw up the last half of the draft. I’d really like to see that NOT happen this year, please. I can see it coming a mile away, Stan, can you?

both the HC and GM hats.
This way we wouldn’t be wondering why it takes so long to find a GM.

We already have a de facto GM: his name is Jeff Fisher.

Arsenal, like most soccer teams, has ONE man in command. He’s been in place for 16 years. Me thinks Kroenke would like Fisher to be for the Rams what Arsene Wenger has been for the Gunners.

Dummy question: Why do we need a GM ?

hiring a QB coach?