No, Tannenbaum was not in charge of those drafts. Here’s Tannenbaum himself before the 2016 saying Grier was running the draft:
(On how the draft process will work among the staff) - "Chris (Grier) is running the draft. Chris has put a grade on every player, and we've already hashed out where we want to go with things for the most part. We have some more tweaking to do, but we're really going to let the board dictate, and that has really been based on the final grade that Chris has put on each player."
Pre-Draft press conference transcript from Mike Tannenbaum and Chris Grier
Miami Dolphins Executive Vice President for Football Operations Mike Tannenbaum and General Manager Chris Grier met with the media on Friday in a pre-Draft press conference. Here is the transcript of that media availability, as provided by the team.www.thephinsider.com
And here’s Grier in 2019 confirming that he had final say on draft decions for the prior 3 drafts:
(Before you came in, we were having a debate about the last three years whether you had final say in the draft. Did you have final say in the draft the last three years?) – “Yes, I did. It was a collaboration, as you know. You know me, as we talked about, I’m not going to force a coach to take a player, because that doesn’t work. If the coach doesn’t want a player and I say, ‘No, we’re taking him,’ and then it works out one way or the other, good; but if it doesn’t, it creates that animosity and then the distrust and it’s not worth it, because you’ve been around here long enough and you’ve seen a lot of that happen. I’m not going to force any player on anyone. But yes, I had the final say.”
(So is this year any different?) – “No. You know me, I’m going to be very collaborative and that’s the only way it works. Again, you guys have all heard stories here and stuff from the past. It’s a combination of coaching staff, personnel, all working together, having the same vision, getting on the same page together of picking the players that we feel are good fits for us as an organization.”
2019 | Miami Dolphins Communications Portal
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Plenty of other sources say differently as well as the irrefutable fact that Grier reported to Tannebaum. I’m not sure what type of work experience you have but typically the guy lower in the company doesn’t have final say.
I’m sure grier put a ton of work into the draft and I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve any credit however if you were to redo your data using only 2019 and on when we know for certain there was nobody above him and he indisputably had full control, it’d tell a much different story. He pretty much never replicates 2016 or 2018 despite having far more picks as well higher quality draft positions in the next 7 years is pretty telling of who had final say.
Not only that but as gm despite having some hits whether his or not may be debatable, what’s not debatable is that part of that gm job is to retain talent. Does it really matter if you draft an all pro or pro bowler but that all pro came from being on another team like Tunsil/minkah/hunt/van ginkel?
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