Les Snead
21 statements across 1 episodes · 10 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2022 by Les Snead · across every show →
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Aug 23, 2022
Snead: Rebuilding teams should draft pillars; contenders should draft for need
“When you're collecting talent, again, you're trying to collect pillars. So pillars and have them grow together. And then 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 f…”
Aug 23, 2022
Snead: Rams concentrate salary cap on 8 to 10 stars, skipping mid-tier
“So we have this core of players, and it's maybe eight to 10, that are highly paid at their position if you compare them around the league. What in turn where we're probably similar to New England is, we don't necessarily have a lot of, let's call it middle cla…”
Aug 23, 2022
Snead: Forcing offenses into 12-play drives increases their probability of mistakes
“What that now forces the opposing offense to do is to earn right points. They have to go on longer drives. Let's call eight to 10 to 12 play drives to get a field goal or a touchdown. And the more plays they have, that's the more chances, you know, they have a…”
Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Aug 23, 2022 neutral
Snead: Rams drafted Aaron Donald despite already having a stacked defensive line
“Different in the NBA, probably we got a little bit easier, but when we picked Aaron Donald, we had drafted Michael Brockers a couple of years earlier with a first round pick. We had a player named Kendall Langford who had been starting for us, and we had Chris…”
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Snead: Jared Goff was McVay's student, but Matthew Stafford is his partner
“Jared was a, was probably a student for Sean. Matthew was someone who could partner with Sean. He's our head coach in our prime, but he's also our play caller. So that was going to be An alignment that we felt like would give us an edge.”
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Snead: Rams design operational calendars to ensure renewal after deep playoff runs
“So we also design our calendar so that if we do play into February, and then while the new league year begins a month later in March, We're not necessarily behind, so what we did intentionally do was try to focus on all of us getting away, players, coaches, st…”
Aug 23, 2022
Snead: Draft selections are IPOs; on-field performance is the stock price
“Where a player is projected to go pre-draft. I call that speculation, right? By third parties. And then where a player is drafted is, I call that his IPO. And then at the end of the day, what he does after that pick is his stock price, right? And that's the mo…”
Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022 bullish
Snead: Rams traded for Stafford to match contention window of core stars
“We did think Jared Goff was a good QB, and there was a possibility that he could become a great QB. So when we made the move for Matthew, we felt like he was great now, and he could help us in our window of contention be great. That window of contention had pl…”
Aug 23, 2022
Snead: Rams lose two to three young starters to free agency yearly
“So we probably lose every year two to three young starters, because we can't Pay them what they demand on the market. And we have to rely on, you know, their backups players that we have in our development system, which is really our roster to move up and take…”
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Snead: The Rams partnered with the military to evaluate draft prospects' traits
“So we've actually partnered at times with the military with some of their tests in that, hey, there's an element to be able to measure someone's combative attitude. On the battlefield, but also be a useful citizen in public.”
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Aug 23, 2022 neutral
Snead: NFL Combine drills test linear explosiveness, not football processing or decision-making
“A lot of times the combine drills, I call them more linear. They're kind of A to B to C. You can train for them. You don't have to think. You don't have to process. It's not read, run, or pass. It's just trying to be as fast or as explosive as possible”
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Snead: Player feedback on Sean McVay's teaching ability drove his Rams hiring
“The one thing that really tipped us and said, all right, let's, let's shoot the cannonball for Sean would be when we chatted with players that he coached. Each one of them to a T articulated back to us, and sometimes this is done through an agent. Number one, …”
Aug 23, 2022 neutral
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Snead: Rams traded for Von Miller to exploit Aaron Donald's double-teams
“The reason we made that trade is we knew that Von really wanted to win a second Superbowl. And we also knew that when we add players like Von Miller, that when we've had, when we've added good rushers in the past to our model team, With Aaron Donald you see th…”
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Snead: Rams absorb player character risks by surrounding them with high-character peers
“So there's moments where you go, hey, let's, let's draft a lot of A plus kids, and then maybe we'll put in One C kid intangibly, C minus kid intangibly, and definitely hope that, right, the gang, the tribe there will bring you on in our culture as a whole.”
Aug 23, 2022 neutral