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If he has a chance to be a defensive coordinator in the league, McVay wouldn't have stood in his way. Doesnt change a thing. On the other hand, if the Rams o-line has another bad year, Bill Callahan could decide to leave Cleveland and take his talents to the West BeachKiss Aubrey Pleasant goodbye in 2021. I'm ambivalent about this.
Yeah and McVay has paid the price for it too. The dropoff we had last year at OC was significant IMO, you can see it in how often teams are sitting on routes and anticipating our run game. There was very little adjusting going on until the latter half of the season when McVay obviously took a bigger role and you could see it in the moving pocket that allowed the offense a bit of a resurgence.Here was the issue, Assistant could move to another team as along as their was a Supervisory Tag, that was the verbiage in previous years, but what teams started doing was poaching coaching staffs, by getting a good special team Coach by making him "Assistant Head Coach/Special Teams." That was not right and is why the NFL allowed teams to deny permission unless it was for Head Coaching Gigs.
Now, I always felt that they should have included the opportunity to be either Offensive or Defensive Coordinators and now they do. BTW, you just name someone Linebacker Coordinator Coach, so there is that protection against teams trying to keep Assistants from moving onto Coordinator positions.
Sean McVay has allowed everyone of his Assistants to interview for better opportunities, Matt LeFleur is a good example as LeFleur was Offensive Coordinator for the Rams, but did not call the plays, he was offered the job as OC with the Titans, that included play calling, the Rams actually could have blocked that and technically it was not a promotion, but McVay allowed LeFleur the opportunity, which enabled him to land the Green Bay gig.
Asshole Face has been the worst at blocking his Assistants and the Vikings have been bad too, so hopefully this will allow Assistants opportunities and I'm glad the NFL finally realized this. So moving forward if a team wants to hire one of your assistants as an OC or DC, you must allow them to interview and I'm sure Special Teams Coordinator is included too.
Yeah and McVay has paid the price for it too. The dropoff we had last year at OC was significant IMO, you can see it in how often teams are sitting on routes and anticipating our run game. There was very little adjusting going on until the latter half of the season when McVay obviously took a bigger role and you could see it in the moving pocket that allowed the offense a bit of a resurgence.
And yes the OL was a big part of the problems. But it wasn't the only problem. Gameplanning and poor effort/consistency from the RB room were both contributing factors too.
Rams need Akers to be able to stay on the field for all three downs and make someone on D account for him for multiple options on every play. When Akers can really execute the full package he will transform the offense.