I would take McVay over Martz any day a thousand times over and KNOW I made the right decision.
McVay's offense is going to score on anyone.
Martz was only going to score on some.
Martz's offense was like a dragster. I dunno if anyone could compete with it in the quarter mile. Against a D he could exploit, I dunno if any offense, ever, was as explosive. They literally could drop 40 in a half and make it look effortless.
McVay's offense is like a rally car. It's very fast, but not dragster fast. The upshot is that it doesn't upend when the slightest bump is in the road. In some ways, it only really shines once it gets off-road.
I mean, while the Vikings D is having issues, they are still a talented D and McVay's Rams put such a whoopin' on them that Mike Zimmer had never been so badly beaten in 22 years of coaching. They scored more against the Vikings than against the winless Cardinals.
Martz' offense was so finely tuned that the slightest disruption and it took HoF performances from Faulk or the WRs to salvage the game. If Ricky Proehl doesn't make that near miraculous grab, we lose to Tampa and never have a Super Bowl win. We scored 11 points in that game.
Also, McVay gets all this production while protecting the QB. Martz got all that production by exposing his QB with 7 step drops and expecting his QB to stand in and take big hit after big hit.
For me it's not close, it's McVay all the way.
I wonder if anyone has a metric for offensive efficiency that only takes into account when a team is using its full playbook to score, versus protecting a lead.
It's possible that the GSOT was the most efficient offense, ever.
And I still take McVay every day. Not even close.
Just one reason is that I can have a reasonable expectation that McVay and Goff can be together for the next 15 years and we can actually be a dynasty with Goff, Gurley, Kupp, Cooks, and Woods leading the O at the skill positions.