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Trade-happy Los Angeles Rams GM has "urgency" to improve after breakthrough 2017

INDIANAPOLIS — Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead stepped up the podium Thursday at the NFL scouting combine and, bracing for the inevitable Marcus Peters questions, joked “we should probably just do this March 14.”

March 14, of course, marks the new league year opening and the agreed-to trade between the Rams and Kansas City Chiefs becoming official.

But Snead did offer some interesting insight — hypothetically speaking, of course — about what was entailed in landing the NFL’s premier takeaway artist in Peters in exchange for a 2018 third-rounder and 2019 second-rounder.

"It’s an urgency to get better, it’s an urgency to improve," said Snead, who is earning quite the reputation of late for his aggressive trades, from moving up to No.