I don't understand what you mean with this comparison. Why are you comparing him to the coach of the football team? He's the project director. And yes, he isn't the one of the writers, that doesn't mean he can't have an opinion about it. You think these guys don't talk to each other at all...
At least Sawyer keeps me confident this will be the Fallout 3 everyone's been waiting for. Substance over style. If Fallout NV were to handle the storytelling to same way Bethesda handled the combat in their version of Fallout; which is ludicrous, 'over the top' and repetitive: nobody would...