It seems we should consider the source and that Me-shawn is not only known as that because he wants the damn ball. He's always been about craving attention. I personally think he took the Vince Young deal and thought it was an easy connection to be made. I see little to suggest he either knows anything about the situation or has sources that would have told him anything like this. If he did have sources, he doesn't
now.
He's a puppet master, that's the way he's worked for years.
Where do you get this? He is very involved with big decisions and may have had some say in this decision as would ANY owner in this big of a deal. But Stan is not known as Silent Stan because he is a control freak pulling strings in the shadows. He is very well known for hiring good people and letting them do their job, pull the deals together, etc. He is known as Silent Stan because he rarely grants interviews and he rarely gets involved in the deals until the final stages. Many times, even in fairly big deals, the other party never meets him.
Just google Silent Stan. How he pulls the strings and what the billionaire pays his interim head coach to relocate the team has nothing to do with how he operates.
Probably the only thing what Fisher is paid has to do with anything is the perception throughout the league that Fish was the best coach available at the time. Stan and Demoff set about getting him. That was the same amount that the Phins were offering but Fish felt better about working with Stan and Demoff - at least by accounts at the time.
With how Stan operates, one would have to think that Fish and/or Snead came to him with a trade up scenario that was close to what they thought they could pull off. Once Stan signed off on the concept, he/they no doubt went about getting the deal set and Stan then signed off on that.
No one can really say for sure but I would contend that if anyone pushed Fish into the trade up deal, it was not Kroenke. KD and Snead? Yeah - I can see that.
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do you know of any good Rams meet up spots/bars preferably in Orange County? I am a Seahawks fan but I think it would be fun to talk with some opposing fans this week. Any help is appreciated!
