How Do You Compete in the NFL?

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The NFL is a big entity it's a big entertainment thing but what do you spend an 80% on of your time on so how do we continue continuing. There are many silo expert department expertise type departments in the building that like they now have to go okay on this Wednesday or this Friday and May what do we do today to write help the rounds continue. It's really trying to take a big concept wow how do you contend in the NFL but the reasoning behind it is okay.

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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