Reverse Engineering the Super Bowl - When You Are Not When You're Not

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Jordan made the team better not just on the court when they were playing a game but every practice he wouldn't let anybody sort of half-ass it. There was this element right of as we were getting closer to the playoffs and he was able to connect with our erin donald, jaylin ransy. He brought one of his uh his replica super bowl trophy and put it in our locker room. After there's been this special result you can probably see these pivotal moments where wow we traded for bond miller not nisp we didn't know if he was going to be a leader or not we did know he would affect the passer.

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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