Rams GM Les Snead finds success and vindication in 2017

Los Angeles Rams General Manager Les Snead is deserving of much credit for turning around the Los Angeles Rams, even before new head coach Sean McVay.

Like him or not, think he should have been fired or not, Los Angeles Rams General Manager Les Snead is due a victory lap of sorts for this 2017 season.

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For the record, I was in the camp that believed Snead should have been jettisoned with former head coach Jeff Fisher. In retrospect, and nearing a year to the day when Fisher was rightly fired, it’s hard, if not impossible, to realize the problem was clearly the overwhelming ineptitude that was the Los Angeles sideline.

Snead deserves credit for, and in no specific order:

• Restoring order to an organization that had become a laughing stock in two cities.
• A successful 2017 NFL Free Agency and NFL Draft that helped reshape and relaunch the Rams. Drafting, yes, overseeing the trade and DRAFTING Jared Goff.
• The hiring of Sean McVay. Perhaps a watershed and franchise changing hire that may improve this franchise not unlike what we saw in San Francisco with Bill Walsh, or in New England with Bill Bleichick.

Snead is deserving of credit for each of these team transactions that have dramatically and rapidly changed the trajectory of a team courting failure more than success.

Like I said, love him or hate him, he’s in a rare position to see this through to one of the most remarkable turnarounds in the NFL. And given the state of the Los Angeles Rams when they finally fired a failed head coach, the achievement is notable and worthy of praise.

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How the 2017 season ultimately ends in Los Angeles remains to be seen. But the blueprint redrawn by Snead and the Rams organization won’t be ignored by teams looking to duplicate what is happening out West.

Which may ultimately be the best compliment Snead could ever hope for.