Collecting Talent Versus Being Competitive on the Field?

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In the spirit of annie duke, there's an element of poker involved and luck involved in adding it all gether. If if good players at positions you've identified to really be how you're going to build your team, they're just not born at a certain time. So maybe they're born a year earlier in theirtin draft a year earlier, or a few years later, you miss out on them. But when we picked aron donald, we had drafted michael brockers a couple of years earlier with ta first round pick. We had a player named kendall langford who had been starting for us, and we had chris long and robert

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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