Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead has completed six drafts with the organization. The first five were conducted alongside Jeff Fisher, who was fired in the middle of December. The sixth was with Sean McVay, the 31-year-old rookie coach.

After it was over on Saturday night, Snead was asked how it went. "The sixth is my favorite -- concise, clear," Snead told reporters from the Rams facility. "It's a tribute to Sean. It really is."

Snead has been nothing but diplomatic when asked about his relationship with Fisher. It was an arranged marriage, beginning at the start of the 2012 calendar year, and it soured toward the end. In early December, a story on MMQB.com cited unnamed sources calling the dynamic between the front office and coaching staff "Rams Junior High." The story ran two days after Fisher inexplicably said he was "unaware" Snead had signed an extension months earlier, and four days before the coach was let go.

The current dynamic sounds a lot more mature (though granted, this is the easy part).

McVay frequently credited Snead's preparation heading into the draft. He talked about all the late nights they spent together watching tape, about how he has learned from the way Snead evaluates players and about how they're "getting on the same page with how we want to see this team."

Snead was part of the team that interviewed candidates for the Rams head coaching position, but his own job status wasn't secure until that new coach was officially hired. Now his future is, in many ways, tied to McVay, who came over on a five-year contract. More specifically, it's tied to the kind of working relationship he can foster with a new head coach who is 15 years younger than him.

Snead didn't bring up Fisher when talking about this year's draft process, but he offered effusive praise for McVay, who was sitting next to him at the dais.

"Look, company picnics are great -- if you want to call it bonding, getting close, all of that," Snead said. "But to be honest with you, I really don’t believe that. I think they’re a waste of time. When you get in the bunker with people and you work with them, especially like we have probably over the past, pretty intensely, the last four weeks -- that’s where chemistry is built. That’s where you get to know someone. That’s where you get to really, really bond. A lot better than badminton at the company picnic. Getting to bond with this guy to my left has been a unique experience, because he’s a rare guy. You all have been here. He can come into a room and he can fire you up. There’s energy. You want to go to work, you want to be the best, and he’s a big part of that. That’s invaluable.”