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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.”
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…”
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…”
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…”
Snead: Rams intentionally skew salary cap spending toward wide receivers
“So what we've determined is in this moment of contention with Sean as our head coach, with him calling plays, we're going to play a lot of three wide receiver sets. We better have capable wide receivers ready to step in. So we've probably been imbalanced at wi…”
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, …”
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.”
Snead: Rams analytics department aggregates public mock drafts to estimate player ranges
“What we do in our analytics department definitely monitors the mock drafts, and you're able to blend up the mock drafts, and they aggregate them”
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…”
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…”
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…”