The Number One Lesson Your Mom Taught You

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Football was something that i was for whatever reason i was really attracted to and as a kid you had to earn things in football. You spend a lot of time as a young kid alone and in those days pre-phones pre-life pads right if you were bored you had to figure out how to not be bored You had to learn pro-activeness uh staying ahead of the curbThings like that are probably good and sometimes bad is she did at times have to work a couple of jobs to make ends meet because she wasn't college educated.

LA Rams General Manager Les Snead dives deep into some of the strategies that made the Rams a Super Bowl Champion, including assessing character, how to draft the right player, the complicated nature of trading players, how to build a team, hiring the right coach, hidden performance, why it’s so important to be relentlessly curious, and so much more. A native of football-crazed Eufaula, Alabama, Snead served as a graduate assistant at Auburn University before he spent 14 years as an NFL scout for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons. He became the Rams’ GM in 2012 and over time built a reputation as an executive willing to make insightful draft picks as well as blockbuster trades, including his move to draft future Hall of Famer Aaron Donald in 2014 and to trade for superstars Von Miller and Matthew Stafford on the way to winning the Super Bowl in February.

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