3/13, Snead interviews

Rams General Manager Les Snead joined the Wendy’s Big Show on Friday to talk more in-depth about trading Sam Bradford for Nick Foles, the team’s free agency moves and needs it still hopes to address.

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We’ve transcribed the major talking points from the segment. You can read them and listen to the whole thing below:

On trade/free agency so far:

“It’s been a fun week. It’s not over but we’re executing a few plans that we’ve had that doesn’t happen all the time. We’ve had some scenarios and it’s working out.”

On how Sam Bradford deal went down after you and Fisher saying he was the team’s guy:

“At the end of the day, a few teams post-Combine approached us (asking about Sam). (We said), We’re not trying to get rid of Sam, it only hurts us.’ We had a conundrum with Sam and the conundrum was basically we got a young talented kid who just has had three years of bad luck. So just moving on from Sam Bradford wasn’t going to help our team. But when you actually tell people you’re not moving in, those people are still interested, they keep coming back. At the end of the day there were two to three teams that was really..trying to acquire Sam. But two teams only had draft picks. We could’ve done that trade, but we couldn’t necessarily make our quarterback room better. So the nice fit as this thing started to heat up…probably in the last week…the Eagles provided an opportunity for us to add to our quarterback room. And add a young guy who’s played on a good team. We feel like we’re getting good. And he’s won important, crucial games in a tough division, got a team to the playoffs. That’s the timeline. I still say…if you don’t have Nick Foles in a trade and you delete Sam Bradford…you didn’t help the room. When we got asked that at the Combine, at that point no team had called us. Internally we said, the best thing we can do is keep Sam Bradford, we might need to insure the position. But we were always focusing on our addition to the room.”

Did Bradford’s refusal to renegotiate his deal expedite things?

“We started discussing a renegotiation toward the end of this past season, both with Sam and his reps. We were prepared to carry him at that number. We’ve been used to that. The thing that really made this thing go is Philly had Nick Foles. That made the transaction a good fit for us.”

On the current holes in the offensive line:

“There’s a lot of ways to acquire new players and fix those holes. We’ll continue on free agency. There’s…the draft. The season starts in September and we’re going to have more than two starters on offensive line.”

Plan on drafting a quarterback?

“When you talk quarterbacks…there’s less QB’s on the planet than there are other positions, so each time you go to make the pick…it’s a case-by-case decision. Nothing’s out of the realm and I think you should definitely evaluate the quarterbacks in the draft and always weigh them to other positions.”

On current receivers:

“You can always add a very good player to help your football team, but we do like all of our receivers and I do think they can be very productive players. You only have one ball and you have to spread it around so I think we’ll always weigh that even in the draft.”