How Do You Decide to Move on From Players That Are in Their Prime?

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Los Angeles has a core of players and it's maybe eight to ten that are highly paid at their positions if you compare them around the league what in term were we're probably similar to New England. We don't necessarily have a lot of let's call middle-class players and that is players that are veterans players maybe in their fifth sixth seventh year but not highly highly paid but make a good living. The Rams also rely on less experienced players to contribute to start to play important roles who are who are on their rookie contracts.

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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