What if in this particular draft there isn't a C b?

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How do you balance the speed at which you can collect talent verses being competitive on the field? I bring this up in the context a sort of sam presty and sam hanke, and what they've done in other leagues. And it looks bad for a year or two, but then they're back into contention. How do you think oot that though? Those gentlemen you just mention, wite, very bright humans, yli you say they were sitting in the room in their designing their blueprint, right? And they may come up with, we would love to have a we love to be a team like te golden state warriors and shoot a lot of threes. Thinks you

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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