Titans' front office man to replace Lombardi?

[OWShaddock]

Perhaps this should be in the rumor mill.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm

SNEAD TO RAIDERS?

Speaking of Titans director of player personnel Rich Snead, there's talk in league circles that Snead could be headed for the Raiders.

Snead likely would be replacing Oakland senior personnel executive Mike Lombardi. There have been rumors that Lombardi is looking to exit, and that he could be fired. A league source previously told us that Lombardi's status wouldn't be addressed by the team until after the new coach was hired.

During the 2005 season, former Raiders coach Art Shell sounded off about someone in the organization who was bad-mouthing Shell to the press. Though Shell didn't name names, it was widely presumed that he was referring to Lombardi.

[EastCoastRaida]

Any info on the guy? Good? Bad? ok? He turned the Titans around last year...but a lot of that can be related back to the pick of Vince Young...

[djh_raider]

I think Mueller would be better.

[GusGus]

Originally Posted by EastCoastRaida

Any info on the guy? Good? Bad? ok? He turned the Titans around last year...but a lot of that can be related back to the pick of Vince Young...

Wouldn't he have been involved in that selection?

[mojobeast4694]

Titans have better player personnel than us, so why not?

[SCaliRDRFN]

this could be true. Lombardi was not around during the PC of Kiffin. Al gave a vage information about his whereabouts at that PC.

[silver_ghost]

Looks like Al has asked Mike Lombardi to stay home because a guy named George Karras is scouting for the Raiders. It also seems that he had a big hand in the coaching search. Here is a link from Jay Glazer:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6407352

[OTF]

Snead has his positives and negatives...

Pro: He has done a pretty good job of bringing in talent and Tennessee has been competitive most years. With the talent he has brought in the team has won at least 7 games every year with the exception of '04 & '05.

Con: The reason why the Titans struggled in 'o4 & '05 is because they were in salary cap hell and had to rebuild after jettisoning most of their talent. As he is the GM he is responsible for maintaining the salary cap and deserves the blame for it getting so bad.

[OTF]

Originally Posted by silver_ghost

Looks like Al has asked Mike Lombardi to stay home because a guy named George Karras is scouting for the Raiders. It also seems that he had a big hand in the coaching search. Here is a link from Jay Glazer:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6407352

It actually says:

The Raiders actually had a guy named George Karras, a long-time confident of Al Davis, who had some influence in the Raiders' search for a new head coach and the buzz was that Mike Lomardi, the acting GM, had very little to do with the overall search...

[BowlOfBrownRice]

Snead sounds OK, Lombardi just needs to go.

[The Shocker]

good, i like this move

[kultan]

Originally Posted by oaktownfan

Snead has his positives and negatives...

Pro: He has done a pretty good job of bringing in talent and Tennessee has been competitive most years. With the talent he has brought in the team has won at least 7 games every year with the exception of '04 & '05.

Con: The reason why the Titans struggled in 'o4 & '05 is because they were in salary cap hell and had to rebuild after jettisoning most of their talent. As he is the GM he is responsible for maintaining the salary cap and deserves the blame for it getting so bad.

they had the same problem we had. Should we load up one more year or rebuild? They did what we did but the exception was none of their players were old enough to retire from those runs so while we might have gotten some cap relief with maybe injuries or the fact that our contracts were shorter due to the age of our players they couldn't because of their youth they had to be on the hook longer for the Kevin Carter's McNairs, Eddie George's Whycheck's and the host of others who got them there. They put together a good squad though and we had a fight on our hands during the Gannon days to win the AFC with them knocking at the door.

[OWShaddock]

Originally Posted by oaktownfan

Snead has his positives and negatives...

Pro: He has done a pretty good job of bringing in talent and Tennessee has been competitive most years. With the talent he has brought in the team has won at least 7 games every year with the exception of '04 & '05.

Con: The reason why the Titans struggled in 'o4 & '05 is because they were in salary cap hell and had to rebuild after jettisoning most of their talent. As he is the GM he is responsible for maintaining the salary cap and deserves the blame for it getting so bad.

Snead wasn't GM for the Titans. Floyd Reese, who recently resigned, was the GM. Snead was just a personnel (i.e. pro and college scouting, free agent acquisitions, etc.) guy. It appears that Tennessee won't be promoting Snead to Reese's old job, which explains why he might be looking for a new gig.

Here's his profile from the Titans' site. Note that he worked for Al Davis as a scout between 1990-93. The Raiders had some weak first-round picks those years (Marinovich, Bates) but made some nice pickups in later rounds (Biekert, Harrison, Glover, Dorn).

http://titansonline.com/team/adminis...f.php?PRKey=43

[OTF]

Originally Posted by OWShaddock

Snead wasn't GM for the Titans. Floyd Reese, who recently resigned, was the GM. Snead was just a personnel (i.e. pro and college scouting, free agent acquisitions, etc.) guy. It appears that Tennessee won't be promoting Snead to Reese's old job, which explains why he might be looking for a new gig.

Here's his profile from the Titans' site. Note that he worked for Al Davis as a scout between 1990-93. The Raiders had some weak first-round picks those years (Marinovich, Bates) but made some nice pickups in later rounds (Biekert, Harrison, Glover, Dorn).

http://titansonline.com/team/adminis...f.php?PRKey=43

Thanks for clearing that up; I think he would be a nice addition...

[The Blackness]

Originally Posted by EastCoastRaida

Any info on the guy? Good? Bad? ok? He turned the Titans around last year...but a lot of that can be related back to the pick of Vince Young...

That would have been Floyd Reese in that doing.Their former GM.