The Los Angeles Rams employ the hottest coach in the NFL, forcing teams who will soon be looking for a new head coach to try and find the next Sean McVay.
The Green Bay Packers and the Cleveland Browns will each be looking for what many in the media call the “next Sean McVay” Unfortunately for those two franchises, the REAL and only Sean McVay is employed by the Los Angeles Rams.
The Packers and Browns may not be the only teams either. Coaching changes could happen with the New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and possibly the Jacksonville Jaguars.
How many “McVay’s” do they think are out there?
With the nearly two seasons McVay now has with the Rams, the unprecedented turnaround he navigated in Los Angeles is what owners and general managers will be looking to do in their respective NFL cities.
With an 11-5 record in 2017 and a playoff appearance, the second year head coach has followed that up with a now 11-1 record with four games to go and a legitimate shot for home field advantage in the playoffs. While that in and of itself is impressive, his most significant achievement may be turning around their 2016 top draft pick Jared Goff, from an 0-7 near bust debut, to a dark horse MVP candidate just three short years later.
McVay is the talk of the league, and if the Rams manage a long playoff run, the days of the veteran retread coach in the NFL is likely over. Los Angeles is ground-zero for a new generation of forward thinking, spread them out type of offensive philosophy, catering to the young guns coming up from college football. Quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes and Goff are where the league is headed.
The explosion of offense seen with the Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints and in Los Angeles is the future, at least for now, as the copycat league looks to dupilcate what McVay has done and is doing with the Rams.
The problem for the two teams already looking and the one’s soon to be is that finding the “next McVay” may be harder than they think, as capturing lightning in a bottle doesn’t happen very often, much less twice.