Rams General Manager Les Snead hangs in, as LA moves on

The Los Angeles Rams kept General Manager Les Snead even after the disaster of 2016, leaving a long running riddle unanswered.

For Los Angeles Rams fans, and especially for those who remain loyal to the team after their move from St. Louis, General Manager Les Snead continues to be something of a curious story. It almost seemed that when the first shoe dropped with the firing of Jeff Fisher, it would be followed by a second with Snead being sent packing too.

That didn’t, or at least hasn’t happened.

Is Snead or borrowed time?

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Let’s be honest, after watching 2016 play out in Los Angeles, it’s hard to really know how it works inside the organization. If you are a betting person, odds seemed high that the Rams GM would not have lasted the offseason. After the loss against San Francisco in week 16, it seems hard to imagine Snead would be a part of what is now happening in LA, yet he is.

Maybe he’s just the beneficiary of some dumb luck?

While it’s easy to point to Fisher for the weekly train wreck that had become the Rams, it wasn’t just his fingerprints on what we saw on the field last season. Los Angeles had effectively flat-lined not just as an offense, but as an organization. When taking a moment to consider that, how Snead remains employed IS something of a riddle.

It might also be an indicator for why hard feelings have been expressed by Fisher who believes complicity shouldn’t end with his tenure.

Like I said, it’s a riddle.

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Which is why reading the piece by Myles Simmons was interesting if for no other reason than the second actor of the NFL’s version of ‘Thelma and Louise’ was still in the Rams war room on draft day helping steer this organization. It’s hard to believe post Fisher that Snead is working with a clean slate. But with owner Stan Kroenke and COO Kevin Demoff, who really knows.

So, as things roll on in Los Angeles with some long needed fresh air and optimism, one throwback remains as the reset continues.

Be it dumb luck, be it something else, for Snead and the Rams whatever works works, regardless of what history may tell us.