Some perspective on McVay.

[gogoat1]

McVay is not going anywhere. And people who want him gone are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
Best coach in Rams history and still young.
Snead got McVays own choice for a young QB to develop so Sean will see it though.
The sky is not falling . The Rams have had one of the best run outfits in the NFL for years now.
The LA Rams will be fine.

 

[pvtdragon39]

Look, ive been Harsh on Mcvay as of late. Do I honestly want Mcvay gone? No, but Maybe he needs to hand off the Duties of Play calling for now. I think its more of being pissed that this team Sucks right now, and its reminding me of the old days. Ill lay off of Mcvay for awhile, and see how this Season Turns out. I just dont have the confidence like I did in 24 and 25. I said those were playoff teams, even when we were 3-6. We techinally still have a chance, but need wins now, and alot of them! Can we win with the Group we have, yes! Will we? Who knows!

This Division is on Lock by 9ers, unless they Collapse. What helps is that The entire South, and entire East is Playing like us too. So Wild Cards Spots are Wide open.

Lets beat The Raidahs, and Chargers, and Get back to .500. Hopefully we are 6-4 after the 2nd Cards game. Hope a healthy Garrett is back soon.

 

[TheTackle]

Only an idiot would want Mcvay gone.

2 Ref blunders and a blocked FG away for being 5-1 vs 3 of the top teams.

His coaching and player decisions have been really really bad. The special teams and DC hiring are losing games. The draft was egotistical.

Now the injuries piling on after your defensive superstars are sidelined.

Mcvay didn’t cause the Garret or Mcduffie injuries or the Higbee Fumble, but he has Stuff he has to get right.

Well said

Shall we count up the number of clowns who were implying that on the game thread Sunday? It truly sickened me especially as we were still in a one score game until the end

Yes we played badly but this is the NFL, it was a division rival, their head coach knows our offense, and we were undone yet again by Evans kicking a touch back (frigging special teams!!) and a terrible officiating call

Some of the posters on this board are toxic but we can all silence their negativity by not giving it air

 

[InfiniteRam]

Just because McVay is criticized, doesn't mean anyone wants him gone.

He was exposed in the Arizona game, hard. His old assistants school him frequently. The players can't solve that.

 

[Ram_Rally]

Have they though?

The complaints I've heard about McVay this year are basically the same things I've always heard.

Is coaching the reason we are failing? It may be part of it, but it's also players making mistakes and the refs driving the vampire stake into our hearts.

So happy to see someone else say this. I'm so tired of examples like stafford overthrowing and open reveiver down field and people saying "Mcvay is calling an awful game!" AHHHHH.

 

[Ram_Rally]

Those of you that bitch about McVay.........are really going to miss him when he is gone. And sadly, I don't think it is that far off.

It's amazing that we lived through Fisher, Spags, linehan just for people to be salty about being constantly competitive.

 

[Ram_Rally]

But as fans from afar we don't know the minute details of the plan and game film.

Like the Davis Allen handoff on 4th down - that looked like a horrible play call, but do we really know why it didn't work? Was it blocked incorrectly - did someone miss their assignment?

We don't analyze film nor do any of us really have the advanced knowledge of football strategy that goes into all of it.

So saying we are "mostly" failing to coaching - that could be the case, but to be real as fans that are not at practice or in the film room every day we don't know the absolute reasons for any of it.

When you say "Arizona knew everything we were doing" - how do you know they did? It looked like we were not prepared for their blitz and it took us too long to figure it out - BUT I do not know that for certain - it very well may have been the Rams were expecting that and they failed to execute the plan against it.

Also saying you maximize the opportunity so that the Refs cant decide things - that's kind of a cliche that's out there in all sports.
There is some truth to that but NFL games are like 8-9 points in differential - you are going to have a lot of close games no matter what. There is no way of always blowing out every opponent so that the refs have no effect - that's just not reality.

The Davis Allen run was, in fact, blocked incorrectly. I watched a video on it. Parkinson essentially triple teams an already blocked up player and the guy he could have blocked meets Davis in the hole.

 

[PARAM]

Totally fucking bizarre. Everything. McVay is THE problem? No. Shula is the problem? No. The D didn't allow a TD. Totally ridiculous. I'll tell you what it is. A fanbase who believed the SUPERTEAM bullshit and can't understand why we're 2-4. So they throw darts at the fucking wall and since a blind man could do the same, they think they're on to something. I've heard it said, "if not for a total collapse by Philly we'd be 1-5". Now that's the blind way of looking at it. Not an ounce of credit for coming back in Philly. Truth is, without TWO brutal calls at the end (crucial, unreversable times) of TWO games, we'd be 4-2. I never saw such whiney fans since the Linehan-Spagnuolo-Fisher era. It's worse because they're off base whiney now. Wake the fuck up.

 

[LARAMSinFeb.]

So happy to see someone else say this. I'm so tired of examples like stafford overthrowing and open reveiver down field and people saying "Mcvay is calling an awful game!" AHHHHH.

Stafford is being safe with the ball. 0 INTs the last 2 games.

 

[kmramsfan]

Or maybe the next guy will win four Super Bowls. There's no way to definitively predict such things.

My bet is the post-McVay era will begin in 2027.

Gonna mark that down, bud.
Hope your wrong.

 

[muggmeister]

Totally fucking bizarre. Everything. McVay is THE problem? No. Shula is the problem? No. The D didn't allow a TD. Totally ridiculous. I'll tell you what it is. A fanbase who believed the SUPERTEAM bullshit and can't understand why we're 2-4. So they throw darts at the fucking wall and since a blind man could do the same, they think they're on to something. I've heard it said, "if not for a total collapse by Philly we'd be 1-5". Now that's the blind way of looking at it. Not an ounce of credit for coming back in Philly. Truth is, without TWO brutal calls at the end (crucial, unreversable times) of TWO games, we'd be 4-2. I never saw such whiney fans since the Linehan-Spagnuolo-Fisher era. It's worse because they're off base whiney now. Wake the fuck up.

Hold fast on the D didn't allow a TD, they fucking allowed 10, 12, 14, and 15 play drives. That's is on the fucking scheme designed by the coaches, period. Sorry, I haven't vented yet and I guess that's all I got. Soft zone shit for years just pisses me off, no fucking change.

 

[RAMSinLA]

This season was lost in the pre season. McVay and Snead blew what may be Matt's last season. The trades looked good on paper but a name doesn't always make a good team.
There was no way that Garrett got a full physical exam before signing him. And who is this Watson dude he sucks. Just bad decision making all around.

 

[lilshapta]

Questionable moves made by this organization in terms of the myles garrett trade (Verse was good enough) and the draft (QB#3 in 1st round and TE#5 in the 2nd round). The draft was essentially useless. We had other needs like LB, WR, and O Line. And now the season is over and will be in rebuild mode. Was fun while it lasted.

 

[Coliseum Ram]

I don’t want to get rid of him. But I definitely want him to take a long, hard, honest look at himself and some of his tendencies and work to change those. His bad tendencies have really come to the forefront this year.

Worried he kinda "is what he is." A "finished" product so to speak. We won't see a different McVay until after he hits the booth and then resurfaces somewhere a few years later, if he does. He could end up being John Madden and never come back.

 

[thirteen28]

Worried he kinda "is what he is." A "finished" product so to speak. We won't see a different McVay until after he hits the booth and then resurfaces somewhere a few years later, if he does. He could end up being John Madden and never come back.

Maybe, but you never know.

John Robinson was always a run first, run always guy when he came to the Rams and in the middle of his tenure, he took a look at himself and his offense and decided to go get Ernie Zampese, which changed the Rams offense dramatically for the better. McVay doesn't even need to make a philosophical shift like that, he just needs to realize his tendencies to get away from the run when it's working, his tendency to undervalue certain things such as special teams players, inside linebackers, etc.

 

[fearsomefour]

Why try to find the next Sean McVay when you’ve got Sean McVay.

Is there any HC in the league right now that doesn’t have warts? Maybe Andy Reid?

Fans calling for McVay to adapt is 100% warranted. Calling for his head is just a knee jerk reaction and silly.

Objectively demands we roll with McVay, not throwing your arms up and thinking we can replace him.

Right, I agree.
Its like a couple of Ram fans I know that have been trying to replace Stafford for a couple of years.
They didn't love the Simpson pick because he doesn't have a big enough arm.
Here's the thing, Stafford has generational arm talent. He is a no brainer first ballot HOF QB. The odds that whomever replaces him will be as good is basically 0%.
Zero point fing zero.
Im not saying McVay is the equivalent at this point in terms of head coaches, but, he has been very good and helped greatly in turning this entire franchise around.
Before people start harping for him to be replaced (I haven seen that on ROD really, but, other less savory places).....well, like the saying goes, you don't what you got till its gone.

 

[Rmfnlt]

Not going to lie - I'm been frustrated with a lot of what McVay has done this year including their latest personnel decision.

However here is something to think about.

McVay has as many more or more post season wins than the following coaches:

Bill Walsh
George Seifert
Asshole Face
Jimmy Johnson
Tony Dungy
Vince Lombardi
Paul Brown
Mike Shanahan
Kyle Shanahan
John Madden
Mike Tomlin

Bill Belicheat - avg 1.06 playoff wins per year... McVay coming into this year 1.11

Most, if not all, of these guys have one thing in common:
The league caught up to and, in many cases, passed them by.

By then, most were ready to move on anyway and most just retired.

Has the league caught up to McVay? Possible. He does seem different this year - you can see it in his face. Not as confident as he once was - more off balance.

I'm not calling for his job - he'd have to really tank. But I will opine on what I think is happening to him. Right now? I am concerned.

 

[RamFanWA]

Been following the Rams since the late 60's. Except for some time while working for my Uncle (Sam), where I missed a few seasons - these last 10 years have been the best I can recall - especially after the 2002-2016 dry spell!

Hopefully McVay can pull a Shanahan, meaning crank out some victories while having half the team on rehab.

 

[Coliseum Ram]

Why try to find the next Sean McVay when you’ve got Sean McVay.

Is there any HC in the league right now that doesn’t have warts? Maybe Andy Reid?

Fans calling for McVay to adapt is 100% warranted. Calling for his head is just a knee jerk reaction and silly.

Objectively demands we roll with McVay, not throwing your arms up and thinking we can replace him.

Andy Reid HAS warts. Its amazing what getting a Top-2 Quarterback ALL-TIME can do for a Coaches resume. Before Patrick, Andy was a 20-year Head Coach with ONE Super Bowl appearance.

 

[Rmfnlt]

This season was lost in the pre season. McVay and Snead blew what may be Matt's last season. The trades looked good on paper but a name doesn't always make a good team.
There was no way that Garrett got a full physical exam before signing him. And who is this Watson dude he sucks. Just bad decision making all around.

Put the bottle down, please?