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So rumors say McCoy was 1st choice for O coordinator, Foerster was 2nd choice? Hmmm... let's see who's third choice on the three deep coaches depth chart now...
Rams Coaching Interviews:It's official, McVay hired
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Very unfortunate, he'd have been a good hire.TurfShowTimes Retweeted
Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo 4m4 minutes ago
Dolphins blocked OL coach Chris Foerster from interviewing for Rams OC job, source said. Worked with Sean McVay in Washington.
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Dolphins blocked OL coach Chris Foerster from interviewing for Rams OC job, source said. Worked with Sean McVay in Washington.
Those dicks.
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There's a reason HC candidates are expected to have 3-4 candidates per position...
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I didn't get invested in this HC search at all. The only thing I care about is: I am so happy we didn't hire that man-child McDaniels.
McVay already has Phillips to run the D, possibly retaining Bones and I hope he hires an OC with a plan and the leadership skills to run his squad. I do not want to see this first year, inexperienced HC calling plays, that is not his job. Good luck to you HC, we are all counting on you
McVay already has Phillips to run the D, possibly retaining Bones and I hope he hires an OC with a plan and the leadership skills to run his squad. I do not want to see this first year, inexperienced HC calling plays, that is not his job. Good luck to you HC, we are all counting on you
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if he can find someone to call games at least as good as he can and he wants to do that, I'm fine with that, however, considering who the rams can talk to, can he find that guy? I mean, I'd like to think that part of washintons number 3 offense was from play calling, and there is a limited pool to find someone of that quality who likely has never called a game before.
Maybe gruden saw something in mcvay and gave him some opportunities until he realized that mcvay could call a game as good, if not better.
during the week, mcvay should be all about everything he wants to communicate to players and coaches, but come sunday, I want, and would be hiring him, to make calling plays his top priority. What else would he be doing standing on the sideline when the offense is on the field. If I'm delegating anything, it's to wade and fossel when the defense and SPs are on the field. That's when I'd have a word with goff or an offensive player if needed.
and consider this, he may be able find someone who can compute the down and distance equals this type of play and those kinds of things but there's always that innate feel for the flow of a game that will make 2 coaches call different plays for the same situation alot of the time. That's what happened with Mike mccarthy, he stood there thinking of play that would work, only to see his oc call a different play that didn't work. Eventually, he had to retake the reins.
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Sean McVay never failed to leave a strong impression in his 14-year rise from high school quarterback to NFL head coach
THOUSAND OAKS – Over his 31 years as head football coach of Marist School in Atlanta, Alan Chadwick rarely missed an opportunity to poke fun at his players when the situation called for it. If mental mistakes were made, no one was safe from his ribbing – not even a certain smooth-talking, triple-option quarterback from Marist’s 2003 state title team who quickly became a favorite of coaches, teammates, school administrators, and before long, pretty much every coach in the football world.
“I would joke with him, ‘Well, you’ll never be a football coach,’” Chadwick remembered, laughing at the irony, all these years later.
On Friday, that quarterback, Sean McVay, stood in front of a podium at the Rams practice facility to accept a job that would make him, at 30, the youngest head coach in modern NFL history. As the rest of the sports world discussed McVay’s age, debating whether a coach so young could possibly succeed in the pressure cooker of the NFL, Chadwick beamed with pride, recalling all the signs from more than a decade ago that his state title-winning quarterback might one day become the NFL’s most talked-about wunderkind coach.
Over the course of his stunning 14-year rise from high school quarterback to college receiver to NFL assistant to head coach, McVay has earned a reputation for detail, communication skills, energy, and passion. He has worked under the wing of Super Bowl-winning minds such as Jon Gruden, Mike Shanahan and executive Bruce Allen. A spitting image of Gruden, voice and all, McVay radiates confidence and charisma in a strikingly similar way to the man who would become one of his most valued mentors.
After one interview with the Rams, McVay had already left such an impression. Upon leaving his interview, Rams COO Kevin Demoff remembers a silence settling briefly over the room. Demoff had made calls to Gruden and others who knew McVay. He’d listened to the often-effusive praise that followed him.
“The terms you heard were ‘brilliant,’ ‘star,’ ‘special,’” Demoff said. “When you asked people for the negatives, they just said he’s young.”
Demoff and General Manager Les Snead wanted to believe his age wouldn’t matter. And as the Rams executives looked at each other, gauging the room, “we were almost afraid to be the first to say, ‘That’s the guy,’” Demoff said.
As a second interview was scheduled and a dinner at Spago in Beverly Hills, one by one, those who met him within the organization began to feel the same. Jared Goff offered his approval after one meeting. So did Marshall Faulk, who was present at the dinner. Soon, it became stunningly clear to those within the Rams front office how exactly McVay had moved so quickly through the football ranks.
“I’m sure no one, anywhere he’s been, would be surprised at how fast he’s risen,” Chadwick said.
The forging of that reputation began at Marist, where McVay made the unusual transition from defensive back to starting quarterback his junior season. Few could make such a change so seamlessly, Chadwick says, but McVay’s aptitude for football was extraordinary. He picked up Marist’s playbook with ease. Before long, he was making adjustments at the line of scrimmage. As a senior, he won a state player of the year award over Calvin Johnson. “A coach on the field,” Chadwick called him.
Most of all, Chadwick found himself impressed with McVay’s leadership. After one season at Marist, McVay took his entire offensive line out to a Brazilian steakhouse for dinner as a thank you. In Marist’s state-title victory, McVay played the entire second half with a broken foot, and afterward, according to Marist’s longtime sports information director, McVay urged reporters to “please not give me too much credit.”
“Our players would’ve followed him absolutely anywhere,” Chadwick says. Even Marist’s coaches had an “unbelievable reverence” for him.
Shane Montgomery could see that before he’d even met McVay. Then the offensive coordinator at Miami (Ohio), Montgomery visited Marist to see McVay in 2003, but found it difficult just to get past the school office. When the secretaries in the front office heard he was there to recruit McVay, they talked over each other, in order to pile on as much praise as possible.
“He just had a way of attracting people to him,” said Montgomery, who, during McVay’s sophomore year, became the head coach at Miami (Ohio).
McVay’s grandfather, John, was a Super Bowl-winning executive for the San Francisco 49ers, and so from childhood, McVay was indoctrinated with football. He broke down film. He read football books. During one recruiting visit with Montgomery, the coach remembers thinking as they broke down film that McVay’s football intellect was “at a totally different level from other guys around him.”
It was of little surprise then, after his senior year in 2007, that McVay told Montgomery he planned to forgo a fifth year to start his career in coaching. He’d already set up an interview at the NFL Scouting Combine with Gruden, who was a family friend. Montgomery told him he could be a “great one” someday.
“Just remember,” he joked, “someday you’re going to have to hire me.”
Weeks later, in Indianapolis, McVay and Gruden watched film together in Gruden’s hotel room. It was the only interview McVay would need.
It was as a 22-year-old coach’s assistant in Tampa Bay that he first met Demoff, who worked in the front office. Demoff could’ve never known the winding path that would bring McVay to Los Angeles. But even then, he remembered the young assistant leaving an impression on those around him.
“When you’re around football teams, the young guys who come in and help out, they don’t often stand out,” Demoff said. “But everyone kept talking about Sean’s maturity. Every step along the way, when people mentioned someone as rising star, and I thought, ‘I can see that.’”
Eight years later, Demoff could see it still, as McVay left the Rams front office lost for words. Concerns about his age had faded. After such a sterling first impression, they were sure that they’d found a coaching star, with plenty of rising left ahead.
THOUSAND OAKS – Over his 31 years as head football coach of Marist School in Atlanta, Alan Chadwick rarely missed an opportunity to poke fun at his players when the situation called for it. If mental mistakes were made, no one was safe from his ribbing – not even a certain smooth-talking, triple-option quarterback from Marist’s 2003 state title team who quickly became a favorite of coaches, teammates, school administrators, and before long, pretty much every coach in the football world.
“I would joke with him, ‘Well, you’ll never be a football coach,’” Chadwick remembered, laughing at the irony, all these years later.
On Friday, that quarterback, Sean McVay, stood in front of a podium at the Rams practice facility to accept a job that would make him, at 30, the youngest head coach in modern NFL history. As the rest of the sports world discussed McVay’s age, debating whether a coach so young could possibly succeed in the pressure cooker of the NFL, Chadwick beamed with pride, recalling all the signs from more than a decade ago that his state title-winning quarterback might one day become the NFL’s most talked-about wunderkind coach.
Over the course of his stunning 14-year rise from high school quarterback to college receiver to NFL assistant to head coach, McVay has earned a reputation for detail, communication skills, energy, and passion. He has worked under the wing of Super Bowl-winning minds such as Jon Gruden, Mike Shanahan and executive Bruce Allen. A spitting image of Gruden, voice and all, McVay radiates confidence and charisma in a strikingly similar way to the man who would become one of his most valued mentors.
After one interview with the Rams, McVay had already left such an impression. Upon leaving his interview, Rams COO Kevin Demoff remembers a silence settling briefly over the room. Demoff had made calls to Gruden and others who knew McVay. He’d listened to the often-effusive praise that followed him.
“The terms you heard were ‘brilliant,’ ‘star,’ ‘special,’” Demoff said. “When you asked people for the negatives, they just said he’s young.”
Demoff and General Manager Les Snead wanted to believe his age wouldn’t matter. And as the Rams executives looked at each other, gauging the room, “we were almost afraid to be the first to say, ‘That’s the guy,’” Demoff said.
As a second interview was scheduled and a dinner at Spago in Beverly Hills, one by one, those who met him within the organization began to feel the same. Jared Goff offered his approval after one meeting. So did Marshall Faulk, who was present at the dinner. Soon, it became stunningly clear to those within the Rams front office how exactly McVay had moved so quickly through the football ranks.
“I’m sure no one, anywhere he’s been, would be surprised at how fast he’s risen,” Chadwick said.
The forging of that reputation began at Marist, where McVay made the unusual transition from defensive back to starting quarterback his junior season. Few could make such a change so seamlessly, Chadwick says, but McVay’s aptitude for football was extraordinary. He picked up Marist’s playbook with ease. Before long, he was making adjustments at the line of scrimmage. As a senior, he won a state player of the year award over Calvin Johnson. “A coach on the field,” Chadwick called him.
Most of all, Chadwick found himself impressed with McVay’s leadership. After one season at Marist, McVay took his entire offensive line out to a Brazilian steakhouse for dinner as a thank you. In Marist’s state-title victory, McVay played the entire second half with a broken foot, and afterward, according to Marist’s longtime sports information director, McVay urged reporters to “please not give me too much credit.”
“Our players would’ve followed him absolutely anywhere,” Chadwick says. Even Marist’s coaches had an “unbelievable reverence” for him.
Shane Montgomery could see that before he’d even met McVay. Then the offensive coordinator at Miami (Ohio), Montgomery visited Marist to see McVay in 2003, but found it difficult just to get past the school office. When the secretaries in the front office heard he was there to recruit McVay, they talked over each other, in order to pile on as much praise as possible.
“He just had a way of attracting people to him,” said Montgomery, who, during McVay’s sophomore year, became the head coach at Miami (Ohio).
McVay’s grandfather, John, was a Super Bowl-winning executive for the San Francisco 49ers, and so from childhood, McVay was indoctrinated with football. He broke down film. He read football books. During one recruiting visit with Montgomery, the coach remembers thinking as they broke down film that McVay’s football intellect was “at a totally different level from other guys around him.”
It was of little surprise then, after his senior year in 2007, that McVay told Montgomery he planned to forgo a fifth year to start his career in coaching. He’d already set up an interview at the NFL Scouting Combine with Gruden, who was a family friend. Montgomery told him he could be a “great one” someday.
“Just remember,” he joked, “someday you’re going to have to hire me.”
Weeks later, in Indianapolis, McVay and Gruden watched film together in Gruden’s hotel room. It was the only interview McVay would need.
It was as a 22-year-old coach’s assistant in Tampa Bay that he first met Demoff, who worked in the front office. Demoff could’ve never known the winding path that would bring McVay to Los Angeles. But even then, he remembered the young assistant leaving an impression on those around him.
“When you’re around football teams, the young guys who come in and help out, they don’t often stand out,” Demoff said. “But everyone kept talking about Sean’s maturity. Every step along the way, when people mentioned someone as rising star, and I thought, ‘I can see that.’”
Eight years later, Demoff could see it still, as McVay left the Rams front office lost for words. Concerns about his age had faded. After such a sterling first impression, they were sure that they’d found a coaching star, with plenty of rising left ahead.
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Well of course they found there guy !! Shannahan is set to go to the SuperBowl. I don't think there is negetives about him being a HC !!
Say what you want , I'm just not buying it . In fact who are The 49's going hire ?? His dad was OC of one of the best teams in NFL history. Pete Carrol was the D.C.
I think who ever they hire is going to be a package deal.I think the way everything played out The Rams were set. They got the best guy that fit there organization . Snead played a huge part in the search.
I think Shannahan has his mind set which did not include The Rams.
Saw your thread about him staying in Atlanta. Which looks like it might happen.How long can a team wait until they hire there HC with everything going on ?? The Niners are in a tough situation right now.
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A lot of rumors that Shanahan is coming off as arrogant and entitled. One example:
View: https://twitter.com/JohnMiddlekauff/status/820405149591949312
I'm sure those rumors didn't help his case when it comes to us. When we already had a guy who's a great offensive mind and has a better personality and more of a leader, why go for the disgruntled version of the two? I think the more we heard, the less interested we were in Kyle.
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Great post. Not surprised people are hesitating to pull the trigger on him. I have been suggesting this from the get, glad we didn't have a chance to interview him.
In McVay we trust!!
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For sure. I don't think he gave The Rams to much of his time of day. I saw his quote last week about his interview with The Rams on Saturday. He basicly said he didn't have one set up.
It could have been The Rams choice, but it was easy to tell he was not going to be The Rams head coach.
I'd like to see Atlanta win the Super Bowl. The way The Rams got beat down by them would make me feel better about it.
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Can't wait for coaching staff gets put in place. Demoff said before hiring a HC that he would ask about coaching staff being put together for the future.
Meaning the guy from Miami would be a guy that McVay might hire next year since the Dolphins didn't allow the interview. -- That's my take on the situation.
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I'm hoping we can steal either Matt Nagy or Eric Bieniemy for the Chiefs, both up and comers. Nagy would be my clear #1 choice but Reid appears to really love that cat!
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How Sean McVay became the NFL's newest prodigy
By Alden Gonzalez
LOS ANGELES -- Jon Embree left his job coaching Washington Redskins tight ends to become head coach at Colorado in the second week of December in 2010. Four games remained in the Redskins' season. Chris Cooley, by that point one of the game's most productive tight ends, quickly became uneasy about what would follow. His new position coach would be Embree's assistant, a 24-year-old named Sean McVay, and Cooley was skeptical.
It took one day to reverse that.
"This 24-year-old kid came in and knew everything about the offense, and everything about everything," Cooley said. "I learned more about football than I had in my entire career in four weeks."
In McVay, Cooley saw peerless intelligence and remarkable self-assurance. McVay didn't just know the offense by heart, or direct his tight ends in great detail; he was able to explain why. Cooley began to see the game from a wider scope and quickly developed an admiration for McVay, even though he was four years younger and never played an NFL snap. In the 2011 opener, Cooley broke the franchise record for receptions by a tight end and gifted McVay the football. Today, Cooley credits McVay for the way he sees the game.
"His ability to understand the game from every aspect -- fronts, coverages, line play, checks, from top to bottom -- is uncanny," Cooley, now a member of the Redskins' radio broadcast team, said in a phone conversation on Saturday, the day after McVay was introduced as the Los Angeles Rams' head coach. "To understand it in that way, and to speak it the way he speaks it, it’s just a love thing. You have to spend unlimited time doing it. And it has to be what you love. When you talk to him, when I talk to him, you just hear it in his voice. You see it."
Growing up with the 49ers
The love began with his upbringing. McVay's grandfather, John, was an executive for the San Francisco teams that won five Super Bowl titles in the 1980s and '90s. McVay's father, Tim -- an accomplished safety for Lee Corso-led Indiana teams -- immersed McVay into that environment as often as he could. As a toddler, McVay would watch 49ers practices and sometimes find himself within earshot of conversations between his grandfather and Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh. He idolized Joe Montana and Steve Young, then later got to know Jeff Garcia.
Tim will tell you Sean learned "a ton" from his grandfather, even though he was so young when John's front-office career was winding down.
"He learned how to interact with people," Tim said. "He learned how to treat people."
Sean was born in Dayton, Ohio, and raised in Atlanta, where his dad now runs the local ABC affiliate. He began to learn how offenses worked as a read-option quarterback in high school. By that point, Tim began seeing Sean engage in high-level conversations with his coaches. He watched his son serve as a receiver and return specialist in Miami (Ohio), then begin his coaching career as a low-level assistant, and then, eight years later, become the youngest head coach in the NFL's modern era at age 30.
Yes, Tim is surprised it all happened so quickly.
But ...
"He’s absolutely capable of this," Tim stressed. "It’s not too big for him. I can tell you."
Getting started in the NFL
Sean got his first NFL job in 2008 under then-Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden. In 2009, McVay became an assistant on a team called the Florida Tuskers in the defunct United Football League, which had Jim Haslett as the head coach and Gruden's younger brother, Jay, installed as the offensive coordinator. When he became the Redskins' assistant tight ends coach in Washington, Mike Shanahan ran the team and his son, Kyle, ran the offense.
It was about that time when Sean began reading books on leadership, gravitating towards those centered on Walsh and legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. His favorite is called "The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership." Walsh wrote it, and John McVay has his own chapter. The central question he searches for in his reading, McVay said, is: "How can you figure out ways to develop and build relationships that are authentic and genuine?"
Bears tight end Logan Paulsen, who spent 2010-15 in Washington, was amazed at how McVay remembered the names and backgrounds of every Redskins employee, from coaches to cooks to janitors. Standout Redskins tight end Jordan Reed wanted to keep working specifically with McVay even after he became the offensive coordinator in 2014. The following season, McVay began to call plays and Cooley marveled at the way he inflated the confidence of quarterback Kirk Cousins, a fourth-round pick who spent his first three seasons stuck behind Robert Griffin III.
"He has a way; this ease about him," Paulsen said. "He talks football all the time, but he finds a way to speak to you."
The voice, the cadence, the gestures, the intensity.
"One of the things that stands out about Jon is when you’re in a room with Jon, you always feel Jon," McVay said. "He’s got a presence about himself. That’s something that I think is important. I’d like to be described that way."
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By Alden Gonzalez
LOS ANGELES -- Jon Embree left his job coaching Washington Redskins tight ends to become head coach at Colorado in the second week of December in 2010. Four games remained in the Redskins' season. Chris Cooley, by that point one of the game's most productive tight ends, quickly became uneasy about what would follow. His new position coach would be Embree's assistant, a 24-year-old named Sean McVay, and Cooley was skeptical.
It took one day to reverse that.
"This 24-year-old kid came in and knew everything about the offense, and everything about everything," Cooley said. "I learned more about football than I had in my entire career in four weeks."
In McVay, Cooley saw peerless intelligence and remarkable self-assurance. McVay didn't just know the offense by heart, or direct his tight ends in great detail; he was able to explain why. Cooley began to see the game from a wider scope and quickly developed an admiration for McVay, even though he was four years younger and never played an NFL snap. In the 2011 opener, Cooley broke the franchise record for receptions by a tight end and gifted McVay the football. Today, Cooley credits McVay for the way he sees the game.
"His ability to understand the game from every aspect -- fronts, coverages, line play, checks, from top to bottom -- is uncanny," Cooley, now a member of the Redskins' radio broadcast team, said in a phone conversation on Saturday, the day after McVay was introduced as the Los Angeles Rams' head coach. "To understand it in that way, and to speak it the way he speaks it, it’s just a love thing. You have to spend unlimited time doing it. And it has to be what you love. When you talk to him, when I talk to him, you just hear it in his voice. You see it."
Growing up with the 49ers
The love began with his upbringing. McVay's grandfather, John, was an executive for the San Francisco teams that won five Super Bowl titles in the 1980s and '90s. McVay's father, Tim -- an accomplished safety for Lee Corso-led Indiana teams -- immersed McVay into that environment as often as he could. As a toddler, McVay would watch 49ers practices and sometimes find himself within earshot of conversations between his grandfather and Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh. He idolized Joe Montana and Steve Young, then later got to know Jeff Garcia.
Tim will tell you Sean learned "a ton" from his grandfather, even though he was so young when John's front-office career was winding down.
"He learned how to interact with people," Tim said. "He learned how to treat people."
Sean was born in Dayton, Ohio, and raised in Atlanta, where his dad now runs the local ABC affiliate. He began to learn how offenses worked as a read-option quarterback in high school. By that point, Tim began seeing Sean engage in high-level conversations with his coaches. He watched his son serve as a receiver and return specialist in Miami (Ohio), then begin his coaching career as a low-level assistant, and then, eight years later, become the youngest head coach in the NFL's modern era at age 30.
Yes, Tim is surprised it all happened so quickly.
But ...
"He’s absolutely capable of this," Tim stressed. "It’s not too big for him. I can tell you."
Getting started in the NFL
Sean got his first NFL job in 2008 under then-Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden. In 2009, McVay became an assistant on a team called the Florida Tuskers in the defunct United Football League, which had Jim Haslett as the head coach and Gruden's younger brother, Jay, installed as the offensive coordinator. When he became the Redskins' assistant tight ends coach in Washington, Mike Shanahan ran the team and his son, Kyle, ran the offense.
It was about that time when Sean began reading books on leadership, gravitating towards those centered on Walsh and legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. His favorite is called "The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership." Walsh wrote it, and John McVay has his own chapter. The central question he searches for in his reading, McVay said, is: "How can you figure out ways to develop and build relationships that are authentic and genuine?"
Bears tight end Logan Paulsen, who spent 2010-15 in Washington, was amazed at how McVay remembered the names and backgrounds of every Redskins employee, from coaches to cooks to janitors. Standout Redskins tight end Jordan Reed wanted to keep working specifically with McVay even after he became the offensive coordinator in 2014. The following season, McVay began to call plays and Cooley marveled at the way he inflated the confidence of quarterback Kirk Cousins, a fourth-round pick who spent his first three seasons stuck behind Robert Griffin III.
"He has a way; this ease about him," Paulsen said. "He talks football all the time, but he finds a way to speak to you."
The voice, the cadence, the gestures, the intensity.
"One of the things that stands out about Jon is when you’re in a room with Jon, you always feel Jon," McVay said. "He’s got a presence about himself. That’s something that I think is important. I’d like to be described that way."
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http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/01/17/...hargers-oakland-raiders-las-vegas-relocations
by Andrew Brandt
From a pure coaching point of view, I don’t think the tender age of Rams new coach Sean McVay is an issue. Age is just a number. I do wonder, though, if a 30-year old has enough life experience (not coaching) to manage a football operation. Whether he does or doesn’t, he will get that experience soon enough.
McVay’s tenure will be closely aligned with the development of Jared Goff. While Carson Wentz was swaddled with coaches skilled in quarterback development, Goff was not. That will change as McVay will be charged with putting Goff in positions to succeed.
Spinning back to the L.A. relocation, the new coaches of the Rams (McVay) and Chargers (Anthony Lynn) have two-year runways to build their programs before the product truly “matters” when they move into the splashy new stadium in 2019.
by Andrew Brandt
From a pure coaching point of view, I don’t think the tender age of Rams new coach Sean McVay is an issue. Age is just a number. I do wonder, though, if a 30-year old has enough life experience (not coaching) to manage a football operation. Whether he does or doesn’t, he will get that experience soon enough.
McVay’s tenure will be closely aligned with the development of Jared Goff. While Carson Wentz was swaddled with coaches skilled in quarterback development, Goff was not. That will change as McVay will be charged with putting Goff in positions to succeed.
Spinning back to the L.A. relocation, the new coaches of the Rams (McVay) and Chargers (Anthony Lynn) have two-year runways to build their programs before the product truly “matters” when they move into the splashy new stadium in 2019.
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This is what I've been trying to communicate...
A HC in the NFL these days probably has to be more of a delegator... I truly believe the best ones are involved as much as time permits on all three phases of the game... then, they are pulled even thinner by a myriad of other demands. Can't over-dedicate too much time to one particular phase.
If McVay tries to be Goff's personal QB Whisperer, I fear something else might suffer.
I am very anxious to see how he fills out his offensive staff.
Where did Fisher go wrong? Not hiring competent Coordinators and then not getting involved as much as he needed to be (IMHO).
Williams was fine... Phillips will be fine.
It's that offensive side that has to be solid... as of now, we don't know who those coaches are going to be.
But I do not believe McVay will have enough time to become Goff's personal coach... he's got to keep the whole team in check.
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The offense is McVays thing. That will be his baby. He said the thing he liked about Jay Gruden was he let his coaches coach. He is going to rely hard on Wade Phillips. He has been a head coach. The defense is the strength of The Rams.
-- I think Ram fans will see a big difference in the offense & Jared Goff.
It is hard to say for sure right now , but I think McVay is waiting for a certain OC.