If that was the case, I doubt Gruden would allow him to take the playbook to LA. Because the Rams run identical concepts and route combinations to the Redskins of 2016. I know Sean is smart, but you don’t come up with an entire playbook on your own without having experience first.
He had experience with plays, construction, coaching and watching game time play callers.
Players call Sean McVay a genius. But what exactly does the Redskins’ offensive coordinator do?
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Dan Steinberg June 9, 2015
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the Redskins prepare for next month’s training camp? Let’s jot down a quick list.
There’s
Robert Griffin III, the fourth-year quarterback who must prove whether he’s a long-term building block.
Jay Gruden, the second-year head coach whose debut season provided little in the way of optimism.
Trent Williams and
Ryan Kerrigan, the team’s two best players, both entering the final years of their contracts, both currently sidelined with injuries.
Still there? Let’s add
Scot McCloughan, the new GM, who raised some eyebrows by taking tackle
Brandon Scherff in the first round of his first draft. Heck, let’s add Scherff, too. Then there are the new coaches: defensive coordinator
Joe Barry, offensive line coach
Bill Callahan — lured away from rival Dallas
— and even quarterbacks coach
Matt Cavanaugh.
All these men have been scrutinized by fans and analysts during the barren football-free months, used as pieces to construct the annually sunny offseason puzzle. And one name seems noticeably absent: that of offensive coordinator Sean McVay.
McVay remains something of a mystery in Washington. He’s the most prominent remaining holdover from the Shanahan era. He’s the NFL’s youngest offensive coordinator, and also Washington’s longest-serving coach. He served as the de facto quarterbacks coach last season, but Cavanaugh now fills that role.
McVay sometimes calls plays during practice, as he did Tuesday afternoon, but Gruden retains that responsibility during games. McVay was in elementary school when Callahan got his first job as an NFL offensive line coach; now Callahan is expected to help oversee his running game.
So is there pressure on the second-year coordinator, the 29-year old whiz kid who replaced Kyle Shanahan?
“Certainly you feel pressure,” McVay said outside Redskins Park Tuesday afternoon. “I thought [last year] was a really humbling experience for me. Obviously we would have liked to have won more games, but I think when you’re able to honestly look back at yourself critically, you always know that you can do a lot of things better.”
This was in 2015 but I recall it kind of stayed the same through McVay’s tenure. Gruden just calls his own plays. Just like McVay does with the Rams.
Truth is, this was one of the reasons I was skeptical of the McVay hire to begin with. He just had almost no experience as an actual game time play caller.
