LA Rams Head Coach Sean McVay shares the view from the top

It’s rare to get a head coach perspective this time of year. LA Rams HC Sean McVay’s insights as to what’s in store for the Rams this off-season is solid gold

LA Rams head coach Sean McVay has a great reputation in NFL circles based on his immediate impact as an offensive innovator. That wasn’t a reputation he was anointed with upon becoming the youngest head coach in the NFL. This is the professional football “prove it” league, and the jury remained out on McVay as he took over for the LA Rams in 2017.

He has never looked back since. Some have anointed him as an offensive genius. While we won’t go that far, his track record of making it to Super Bowl 53 in just two seasons is both very impressive and effective.  So effective, in fact, that many NFL teams sat up, took notice, and tried to duplicate his rapid results.

Still, nothing comes close to the original. So Rams.com Stu Jackson’s featured article about head coach Sean McVay is worth the read.

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The coach understands the importance of getting the 2020 NFL Draft right but also understands that his coordinators are brand new to the team. The first order of business for the team’s coordinators is to analyze each formation, each play, each player, and develop a feasible action plan to improve the team’s results across the board.

That plan includes contingency planning over the potential loss of each free agent.  It will also include a list of “need these players” for the personnel department to identify, analyze, and report out to each coordinator. That sort of analysis can become very involved, and does not travel well through airports, hotel rooms, and interviews with prospective rookies. So McVay decided to keep the coordinators in Los Angeles, and quickly return to join them.

"“What can we gain being back there with Kevin and Brandon and being able to go through some of the things that we’re looking for as far as continuing to evaluate and do our due diligence with the draft process but then also start to have a vision for – okay – this is what we want to be able to do but how do our players fit into that, because it’s always about adjusting and adapting to your players and as we’re getting through just kind of the natural cycle of the offseason.” – Sean McVay per Stu Jackson"

The Rams have a lot of work to accomplish in the off-season. Important enough work to persuade the head coach to alter the traditional travel plans of the team’s new coordinators to allow them to focus on the task-at-hand.

That task-at-hand is creating an overarching plan to share with the scouting department for prioritizing draft prospects, share with the personnel depart for prioritizing free agent signings, share with position coaches, to coordinate what the team is seeking and how to best develop them.

And the new LA Rams’ coordinators need to do it all in a matter of weeks, where most teams have several months to accomplish a similar objective. No problem, right? Well, as long as restaurants deliver meals at all hours of the day and night, that is.