As Brian Stark addressed the media for the first time as a part of the Las Vegas Raiders, the word efficiency came up a lot.
Essentially, that's what his duties as the assistant general manager boil down to – helping to make decisions easier for those around him.
He's seen personnel decisions make, and sometimes break, football teams in his previous roles with the Denver Broncos. Before being named assistant general manager of the Raiders, he spent 13 years in the Denver Broncos scouting department, three of those years with Raiders General Manager John Spytek.
"It's a pretty special experience for me to have a chance to have this opportunity to be here and support him in this role, to have this role myself and support him in his role, and to still be able to have some of the same conversations that we had back then," Stark said.
Stark's time in Denver certainly had peaks and valleys. From 2011-15, the team won five consecutive divisional titles with two AFC Championships and a victory in Super Bowl 50. The Broncos also had seven consecutive losing seasons, and multiple head coach and general manager changes in that span.
Nevertheless, he believes his prior experiences are what allow him to be confident in his new role and helped him to become, you guessed it, efficient.
"Spy's [John Spytek] got a big job," Stark said. "He's got a lot going on, and we want to make sure that we have everything organized and have strong opinions on things, so that we can present it to him in a way that can make the process as efficient as possible. I think having gone through kind of those roster transitions in Denver, it exposed me to a couple different philosophies and a couple different styles, so kind of able to create some thoughts on that, and then kind of put that together with everybody's experiences that they've had."