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Les Snead

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“You miss out. And going to the Aaron Donald story when we drafted Aaron Donnell with the second pick, we had two first round picks then. So at that point in time, we were in that building. We're going to try to collect as much talent as possible.”
2022-08-23 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Les Snead: Building a Super Bowl Champion · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But sometimes depending on what players, what human beings at what positions were born when, right, when we go to build our team, right, who's in the draft, we don't get to determine. So we may have penciled in, we really want a QB. Well, what if in this particular draft there isn't a QB? What if in this particular draft, the other 31 teams have a say too? So what if they get the QB before us? So it's one thing to have a blueprint, but in the spirit of Annie Duke, there's an element of poker involved and luck involved and adding it all together. 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 and they're and then draft a year earlier or a few years later.”
2022-08-23 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Les Snead: Building a Super Bowl Champion · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those gentlemen you just mentioned, right, very bright humans. Let's just say they're sitting in their room and they're designing their blueprint, right? And they may come up with, we would love to have to be a team like the Golden State Warriors and shoot a lot of threes and things. And you have this blueprint.”
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“Of what we needed to do that day, each day before each of our playoff games. And I do think when you're living through it, all of a sudden you can feel it. But when you reverse engineer it after there's been this special result, you can probably see these pivotal moments where, wow, we traded for Vaughn Miller, not NISC. We didn't know if he was going to be a leader or not. We did know he would affect the passer. But then you see that, hey, I've got one of these. I know, Aaron, you really won't one of these. I know Jalen, you really want one of these. Everyone else in life, you really want one of these. Let's go get one of these.”
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“Spot on. We probably do not win the Super Bowl if we do not trade for Von Miller, not necessarily for the sacks or him harassing the QB. When he comes to work, like he's happy to come to work, like he really likes going to a football locker room. There is this element, right, of as we were getting closer to the playoffs, and he was able to connect with our Aaron Donald, our Jalen Ramsey, right? Because those two players, some of our best players on our team, but they respected Vaughn. But in a very light way, and he brought the replica, you know, he brought one of his replica Super Bowl trophy and put it in our locker room right there when everybody went to get their new clean clothes, pick up their laundry for the day, right? That trophy stared at you and he would handwrite a message.”
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“And if we can't match that on our end, it's probably best not to make that type of investment. And I think that's a lot of times when you see teams pay another player from another team. It makes news the player comes to your roster. And now he's one of your higher paid players that puts a little bit of a spotlight on the player. Write your fans or looking at the player. And even that player now feels a different element of pressure that he might not have with the previous team, right? He might have been partnering with Aaron Donald. And, okay, there's an element of less anxiety and then maybe that player now feels like I've got to be an Aaron Donald. And so there's many of psychological layers that go into it that you see a lot of times those type acquisitions don't pan out or might not. It's better to say this.”
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“Definitely, and I think that's the nuance of what we do on a daily basis. And we have seen some of our players, especially, I mean, in particular on the defensive line, move on to other teams and be less productive, right? Because that other team might not have an Aaron Donald. If the team that one of our defensive linemen went to doesn't have a player that maybe demands a double team here or there, that player's chances for single teams is going to be lesser than he had with the Rams in production goes down. And that's, you're exactly right. What we would have to do on the other side of that is when we're evaluating players, what scheme is he in? What players are he playing with? What are his robins actually doing to help him have Batman-like predominant?”
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“Offensive coordinator, offensive line coach, how do we protect? And even in their play calling during the game deal, we might play a team that's very explosive, right? A team that likes to throw the ball down the field, attack down the field. But a lot of times when they play us, they're going to speed it up. It takes a little bit longer to throw the ball down the field where they're going to do quicker passes underneath passes less down the field passes, less explosive plays. 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 ten to 12 play drives to get a field goal or a touchdown. And the more plays they have, that's the more chances they have a chance to make a mistake.”
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“Von Miller's sack production and there probably, you can measure whether you're pressuring the QB, things like that, a little more subjective than objective. But both of those players, production, right, went up when we paired them together and Vaughn got healthier and teams were in a conflict of who they doubled when. And then when each of those players felt that this was their moment in a one-on-one matchup, they cashed in. That's the hidden production right where our front office, our coaching staff sees every single game from Aaron Donald. And it's one of those where it's not on the stat sheet, but when he's on the field, he is creating havoc and conflict in the opposing team.”
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“Of Aaron. So let's go back to when we made the trade for Von Miller. The reason we made that trade is we knew that Von really wanted to win a second Super Bowl. And we also knew that when we add players like Von Miller, and when we've added good rushers in the past to our model with Aaron Donald, You see those teams still slide to Aaron Donald and now Von Miller. One on one opportunities, or let's say now it's three, it's two on air and two on bond. Now we're going to have a Leonard Floyd. We're going to have Greg. We're going to have to have someone else get to the QB. But I think in this particular year, Aaron Donald's sack production.”
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“I mean, I think that's the difference between stats. We term it hidden production. And I'll try to paint the picture for everyone. If Aaron Donald lines up. I'll say this. So, in offensive line, there's usually five players a center and two on each side of the center, right? So let's say Aaron Donald lines up between the two offensive linemen on the left side of the center. So we call that attack on a guard. And he's between those two. Most of the time, or the majority of the time, a team's going to probably put a tight end over there. So now there's a third player to the left of the center. And the lion's going to slide to Aaron Donald. So that means the center, he could either go toward Aaron Donald or away from Aaron Donald. And a lot of times the center's job is to kind of clean up. If you think of basketball, just make it hard for the player to drive to the basket, which at this point is the QB. So oftentimes, right, you're going to get two, sometimes even three players aware.”
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“Core players, right? Cooper Cup, someone like that, and say, you know what? It's best to move on now because they're still thriving. What we've had to do this particular UFA class, we had to let our starting right guard go. Like he helped us win the Super Bowl, but we weren't able to pay him what the Carolina Panthers pay. 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 their backups, players that we have in our development system, which is really our roster to move up and take their place.”
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“In term, where we're probably similar to New England is we don't necessarily have a lot of, let's call it middle class players, and that is players that are veterans, players maybe in their fifth, sixth, seventh year, but not highly, highly paid, but make a good living. We've had to in turn really rely on less experienced players to contribute, to start, to play important roles who are own their rookie contracts. We've yet had to take one of our...”
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“Put two people on Aaron Donald sometimes, three. We have other players who can win some of those one-on-one matchups. So what we've done is we've had a, let's call it a top tier quarterback being paid and we've paid our skill players, some of our eligible receivers. So we have this core of players, and it's maybe eight to ten that are highly paid at their position if you compare them around the league.”
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“May be experienced that in Los Angeles because we've made some trades with younger players and they become our core. What we've probably done a little differently with that core is wow, we had the highest paid defensive player in Aaron Donald and then we paired him with at the time the highest paid cornerback in Jalen Ramsey. And we also have always tried to pair him with a higher paid and higher paid Pay means nothing. It's really, hey, good player that can affect the passer with Aaron Donald because teams are going to try to take away Aaron Donald. And we've always been a team that believes in effecting the pass or harassing the passer and that compounds over a game and it kind of frazzles his quarterback, things like that. But we've always tried to pair that so that if a team does, let's say,”
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“I think he's definitely done a really nice job of that. And my wife calls it Filin's basement too. There's times, right, when he's able to pick up a player, right, that may be devalued for some reason, but has a chance to thrive in their system. And I do think if we got into that, I do think at the time, if you were a player and you chose New England, you were choosing New England probably for a chance to have team success do something special from a team standpoint, not necessarily make the Pro Bowl as an individual. We have yet to...”
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“Different offensive coordinators in Detroit. He was definitely someone who was raised in a pro style offense who had a lot of reps at really dropping back in the NFL, being able to write, read a defense, and process it quickly and know the answer to the test real quick.”
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“The game quickly. So let's just say there's a pass play call, not a run play. Depending on what coverage the defense presents you or gives you, and usually after the snap, because everyone's going to try to disguise it, the QB has to know, oh, on cover four, I'm going to my number two on cover three, my number three receiver is going to be the first target, right? So it's based on that. Where today in college football, in high school football, in peewee football, a lot of teams are running what we call the spread. And I think adults who are coaching at those levels realize it may be better if we take the heavy lifting off the quarterback and maybe put it on the coaches. So they're doing things to make it a little bit simpler for quarterbacks. But so with Matthew Stafford, even though he had had a lot of”
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“It was going to be better results if we aligned our core players with a QB that was there already and not in the process of getting there. So more, I always said, Jared 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. And going back to systems, Sean was mentored by John Gruten and then mentored by Mike Shanahan. Their systems are pro-style systems. Here's the interesting thing about Matthew is he grew up in an era where even in Pee Wee football, there was an element of a pro style offense. Pro style offense really is it puts a lot on a QB from his ability to not only learn the game, but to process.”
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“Systems in the NFL do matter, right? They're different. I think the average fan or just a fan in general, you know, you look down and you go, okay, everyone's playing football, but there is a difference in the tactics and the systems of each, right? Each NFL's team's offense, defense, and even special teams. So here's the interesting thing on Matthew Stafford. And then I'll try to give some bullet points and you can ask from there. 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 players like Cooper Cup, players like Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey that were in their prime. So in our model, maybe.”
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“Is there a chance to be a perennial? Let's call it 8-4, even number one team. So I think that's the difference in contending. And then the also thing gets into it, you're building a team and not collecting talent. So we have to know within the locker room because the players are the most important people in our ecosystem in terms of what we're trying to accomplish on Sunday afternoons. Do we have the right leadership? I was just chatting with Sam Walker and he's good friends with the Assistant GM of the Baltimore Orioles. And he was with the ASROs. So when you're a baseball GM, it sounds like you go in and you try to remodel the minor leagues. So it does take a while. And at that point, right, you're probably in this mode of you're collecting a lot of talent. The vision is for them to jail together. And then when they're in their prime, break through to winning. And now you have this.”
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“You can measure some steps and see momentum and feel momentum and things like that. But when you break through and you're able to do it again, I think at that point, the model of your team is probably closer to being complete. So there are some tweaks along the model that may become easier to identify, right? If we make this tweak, we might have a chance to go from good to great. actually trade Jared Goff, who's a young quarterback that we were good with, that we were a perennial top 12, top eight, and even got to a Super Bowl with. If we tweak the model, even though it's a big event and make a trade for Matthew Stafford,”
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“If in, let's call it four to five years, Matthew Stafford decides to retire. We're going to be in contention as long as Matthew is our QB and as long as he's still able to play like he plays. So at that point for us, who would replace him, right? And that would be a big if-then statement of whether we contend. But the interesting thing, I think when we are in contention, at that point, I think we're trying to build a team and not just collect talent. We've simplified it by saying in football, we're either building and at that point we're trying in the vision is to hopefully break through. And then once we break through in NFL football, that could be like having a winning season and getting to the playoffs for the first time after not being there for a few years and building. And you may can.”
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“A good question. That's can we always be in a window of contention? I think the vision would be let's at least attempt to. But right in professional sports, there's going to be attrition. There's going to be change every year. So then when there is a change at quarterback or position that's really, really important or really, really good player at that point, you have to adjust, adapt, and deal with.”
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“The blank page is going to be staring at you. And it's going to mean something because at that point, as Ryan and I said, and when we come back for camp in August to begin the journey maybe to attempt to repeat, writing a bestseller repeating, yes, that's this North Star, but ultimately that August day, that blank page is going to stare at you and all we're going to want to do on that day is actually all he's going to want to do is really write a good first page and see where that goes the next day. And what we're going to want to do is have a really good practice and then go from there.”
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“Still frayed, not be exhausted and still want to compete. Ryan Holliday spoke in Los Angeles a couple days ago. So I went down to see Ryan and I was, I hadn't seen him in a while. And he's obviously written bestsellers. And then he's in the process of writing probably a four book series and he finished the one on courage and he has a second one that he's finished, but it's in the publishing phase. And then he was like, okay, on June 16th. Even though the second book of that four-part hasn't even, let's call it, hit the market or the shelves yet, he's got to go back and begin writing that book. And he mentioned something. I said that's very similar to what we're doing. He says on June 16th, when he goes to sit and is study to begin book three.”
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“A few nuances in that question. So if we engineered our processes correctly, even though we played a longer season, we wouldn't necessarily be behind. We're in a contention phase. We're aware of that. That's why we do a lot of the things we do. 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 obsess getting away, players, coaches, staff, and just renewing because we definitely needed to come back and not be, you know,”
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“Earning winning the battle was really somehow engineering, designing your calendar, right, in an intentional manner where each day you can focus on getting to the mountaintop, but the mountaintop's not going to be earned on that day. But there is a mountaintop for that day. If I spend a lot of time as a general manager, one thing I really like to spend time on is our processes. How are we engineering them? What's the goal? It's on a Friday in May. What's the goal on a Tuesday in July? And that might be renewal, right? Step of the way, the other 364 days before you have a chance to Get to the PITA”
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“Other days to get to that peak. And what you had to do, even though you want to get to the top, at some point, right, you have to take that first step. And that first step is not going to be at the base of that mountain, right? That first step may be by mountain gear for the first time. It's going to be the training that goes into it.”
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“Throughout time, I think we always want things. I mean, there's an element of impatience, right? So maybe in that moment, I didn't earn or win that battle for that bike helmet. But what I did know, what I did come to find maybe didn't know then or maybe my frontal lobe probably wasn't evolved enough to be as quantum to know that there might be another chance to earn a bike helmet. There might be another chance to earn something maybe more lucrative than a bike helmet, but there definitely had to be a process. There had to be an intention. So I would say there's a North Star goal in football. If winning the Super Bowl would be, right, climbing Mount Everest, that's going to be one day in February, but there's going to be a lot of, there's going to be 300.”
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“I learned from him, you sit out in a boardroom with him, and his first question was going to be the elephant in the room. So you learn that, which has been really good as I've become a leader and not just a lieutenant. Stan Crockie's current owner, and he's someone that you learn the art of patience, sleep on it. I'm going to leave people out. Even though I was an only child, single mother, dad wasn't a presence in my life. Poy was I fathered by some Titans who walked this planet and wouldn't be here talking to you without them.”
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“Definitely, hey, you can't call in sick. Tom Cauflin, you just learned consistency. I mean, every day is routine and it's pretty much the same and it's intentional. So Shawn McVay and you understand what true efficacy is and you understand we being greater than me is. So Dan Reeves, who is one of the winningest coaches and he just passed away, he was someone when you brought a good idea to him or maybe it was even a bad idea, but maybe when you're young and spunky, you think it's a good idea, he would snap at you for bringing maybe something different to the table. But what he always did and what I still do this day, and if you talk to any of anyone who works with me that I partner with, if I snap at someone, I will always circle back. And it's because of Dan Reeves. Owners that I've worked for, Arthur Blank, who started Home Depot.”
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“Because he knew that we were going to be playing one o'clock games on Saturday. There wasn't a television schedule then. So guess what? People were going to come to that stadium and melt. You know, they're going to be frosty, the snowman in that humidity, but he would always say, hey, he was engineering, right, uncomfortableness so that when we got to game time, it would be easy. Terry bowed in someone who came in and coached at Auburn and you could just, hey, energy is very contagious. There is a contagious leader. Probably the person Rodney Garner who's been coaching in the SEC a long time. He's at the University of Tennessee now. I mean, he's definitely, he was my closest father figure because I practiced for him in Auburn. I didn't play a lot and also GA'd for him. But he was one of those very similar to my mom from Leeds, Alabama, grew up. His sociology was, you know, you had to go to work every day.”
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“There's a coach now who's one of my first college coaches, and he's now a head high school coach in Birmingham, Alabama. But his name's Chris Jaeger. He was one of the first coaches that taught you how to win a battle, didn't just somewhat yell at you to go win a battle and then maybe get mad at you when you didn't, right? My first college head coach, Robert Maddox, and I went to Troy State and then transferred ego. That's where I truly learn ego is the enemy. If we're going to bring Ryan Holliday in there, he was such a humble person. It was all about, it was not about him. It was about the team. Pat Dye Sr., someone who coached at Auburn. You know, make mental toughness a habit. I remember Pat Dyce Sr. one o'clock every August in the hot, humid south.”
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“You know what? You're going to get knocked down. There's going to be days where you're going to have to get back up and you're going to have to go one more round. So I think starting in eighth grade all the way through high school, my high school coach Wayne Woodham, he had a saying as you think, so you become. Didn't really know what that meant then. And it's probably changed over my lifetime as I've really grown to understand what it really meant. And my wife, Kara, has mentioned your high school coach was teaching you Stoic philosophy at such a young age. But each coach, each person I've worked with all the way to Tom Cauflin who's won two Super Bowls, I do think they played a part in being the father that I didn't have. Talk to me about it.”
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“The starters and the contributors ready to play the next opponent. But I remember this story. In those days, there was a company that made helmets, bike helmets. And those were the cool helmets. And then in those days, the Rydale helmets were the less cool helmets. So our school probably had maybe five to seven bike helmets. So fast forward to eighth grade, you know, trying to earn your keep. Even though I was fortunate enough to earn a starting job, I didn't get one of those bike helmets. That was trauma for someone in our because that meant something, right? There was a badge. That was a badge in honor. Football was something that, right, if you wanted to play, if you wanted that bike helmet, you actually had to earn it. Those coaches in those days, I remember that coach of our middle school, his name was John Portevant. And he always had a saying one more round.”
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“Football was something that I was, for whatever reason I was really attracted to. And I think if you grow up in the southeast, football is very important in that part of the country. If you've seen the commercials for SEC football, right, or just the SEC in general, there's just something different. It's part of the culture, it's part of the fabric. It's part of the social hierarchy. So I was very attracted to football. And as a kid, you had to earn things in football. I can remember in those days, the first time I actually played, let's call it football with pads on the middle school team. So sixth, seventh, eighth grade. So I think seventh grade is the first time you go out for the middle school team. And that year, you're really going to sit on the bench. There's one school. If you were third string, you had to be third string and you played scout team. And if no one knows what Scout team is, that's basically a team that's getting the.”
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“Raised by a single mom, the sociology there, I wouldn't change anything because it can be, you're going to earn grit. But I think the one lesson probably really good and sometimes bad is she did at times have to work a couple of jobs to make ends meet because she wasn't college educated. And we were in a small town. And she's become a pillar in that small town. But she really worked and it meant something to her. Probably just growing up in that environment and seeing it, watching it. I always said there's no sick days, right? You've got to go into work. But I think that's the number one lesson. The other one is you spend a lot of time as a young kid alone. And in those days, right, pre-phones, pre-ifads, right? If you were bored, you had to figure out.”
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“Was this element right as we were getting closer to the playoffs? And he brought one of his replica Super Bowl trophy and put it in our locker room right there when everybody went to get their new clean clothes, pick up their laundry for the day. That trophy stared at you and he would handwrite a message. What we needed to do that day, each day before each of our playoff games. We didn't know if he was going to be a leader or not. We did know he would affect the passer, but then you see that, hey, I've got one of these. I know everyone else in life. You really want one of these. Let's go get one of these.”
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