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Snead: Do not acquire elite talent without replicating their previous supporting context
“What are his Robins actually doing to help him have Batman-like production, and if we can't If we can't match that on our end, it's probably best not to make that type of investment.”
Snead: Dominance through roster imbalance creates a bigger edge than balanced spending
“It is probably better to attempt to be dominant and imbalanced somewhere than be balanced in the fact that, okay, we're going to have, we're going to pay one wide receiver, and then we're going to pay two offensive linemen, and we're going to pay one. I, to me…”
Snead: The talent gap between draft picks 28 and 50 is small
“The difference between the 28th pick and the 50th pick is, is, is probably a lot less than most fans the naked eye interpret.”
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…”
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…”
Snead: Hall of Famers require high conscientiousness and rapid cognitive processing speed
“I think in this equation, the players that probably become Hall of Famers are the ones that Are gifted genetically with that physical talent, but they also are gifted, right, or have been socialized or mentored, the conscientiousness to prioritize their life's…”
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”
Snead: Winning in the NFL is baseline; losing imposes a drudgery tax
“Winning doesn't mean winning's just, I call it winning's your job. Losing's, there's a stress and drudgery tax to losing.”
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…”