When you're outside of a window of contention and we're collecting talent at this point how do you balance the the speed at which you can collect talent versus being competitive on the field? It's one thing to have a blueprint, but in the spirit of Annie Duke, there's an element of poker involved and luck involved. Once you break through I think that's when team builders probably need to be a little more specific right where sometimes you do draft for need because you have core players and maybe you need to draft for need as well.
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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