2017 schedule

Rams open season at home against Indianapolis Colts

link: http://www.ocregister.com/2017/04/20/rams-open-season-at-home-against-indianapolis-colts/

The Rams’ era under new coach Sean McVay will begin Sunday, Sept. 10, when they open their 2017 season at home against the Indianapolis Colts.

McVay, the youngest coach in NFL history when the Rams hired him at age 30 in January, faces his former team, Washington, the following week, on Sept. 17 at the Coliseum. McVay spent seven seasons in Washington, including the past three as offensive coordinator, and now he will coach against his former boss, Jay Gruden.

The Rams’ schedule isn’t exactly daunting, as only four of their 13 opponents made the playoffs last season: Dallas, Houston, the New York Giants and Seattle.

The most volatile part of the Rams’ schedule comes near mid-season. The Rams play at Jacksonville on Oct. 15, then travel to London for their Oct. 22 “home game” against Arizona. After a bye week, the Rams must return to the East Coast for a Nov. 5 game against the New York Giants.

The Rams finish the season with two of their last three games on the road, at Seattle (Dec. 17) and Tennessee (Dec. 24) before the Dec. 31 finale at home against San Francisco.

Zooey wrote:

I am sure we all find it very revealing that you chose the Seahawks’ colors for this schedule.

Yeah sorry I didn’t even think of that. (Sometimes brain not work good.)

So, I will change it via edit.

Because, an abomination is an abomination.

http://www.therams.com/videos/videos/Inside-the-Rams-Schedule-Call/5ba3f1dd-2d4a-446c-ba24-2a059d3ca6dc

Inside the Rams Schedule Call

Go behind the scenes at the Los Angeles Rams facility as the front office gets the NFL schedule release phone call with Sean McVay, Les Snead and Kevin Demoff.

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Rams video a fun glimpse into NFL schedule process

By Conor Orr

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000801760/article/rams-video-a-fun-glimpse-into-nfl-schedule-process

The Los Angeles Rams released a fun video on Thursday night of new head coach Sean McVay, general manager Les Snead and executive vice president Kevin Demoff receiving “the call” from NFL Senior Director of Broadcast Michael North revealing their 2017 schedule.

See Full Video HERE

The immediate sell on Friday was McVay’s I-can’t-believe-my-ex-girlfriend-showed-up reaction to learning that he’d play his former team, the Washington Redskins, Week 2. The 31-year-old goes from making an all-smiles joke about Tony Romo calling their Week 1 game to a bizarre 180-degree turn where he can only mutter “Oh, now that’s exciting.”

Either McVay at that moment remembered he was on camera or remembered that the Redskins were on their schedule. Snead and Demoff crack some jokes. McVay says “It’ll be a good game man, I’m looking forward to that.”

But like all of these peek-behind-the-curtain videos — more NFL teams should be doing this, by the way — there is richness in the minutiae. Outside of McVay’s reaction to playing the Redskins, here are a few of our favorite moments from the 4 minute and 41 second clip.

» Demoff calls the Redskins game the “Coach McVay bowl” upon the announcement. The joke is then painstakingly extended throughout the call. Snead calls the game against Houston the “Wade (Phillips) Bowl” and North asks with a hint of sarcasm, “does every game have a nickname?” Shortly after, Snead calls the Saints game the “Bill Johnson Bowl (the defensive line coach spent eight years in New Orleans). No laughter was recorded on the video at that point. Remarkably, seconds later, when the date for the Rams-Eagles game is set, Snead goes back to the well once more calling it the “Goff vs. Wentz Bowl.” McVay now also asks Snead if he’s going to see if he can come up with a nickname for every game. This feels like a second warning.

» North announces that he managed to secure the Rams a late-afternoon East Coast start against the Jaguars, meaning the game would be played at 4:25 p.m ET instead of 1:05 p.m. ET so it did not feel like the Rams were playing a game at 10 a.m. local time. Thinking he did a nice thing, North was immediately met with a half-joking retort from Snead, who says every East Coast game should be like that. North’s voice morphs into that of an exhausted parent who just wants to eat his cold supper. “We are WELL AWARE of the western team’s preferences,” he said.

» North appears to try to glide by the portion of the schedule when he says the Rams will have to essentially fly from L.A. to London to play the Cardinals at 10 a.m. PT before flying back to Los Angeles for the bye then back across the country to play the Giants.

“So we go Jacksonville, London, New York?” Demoff asks.

“You got it,” North says before quickly moving on.

» McVay, already the butt of countless bad millennial jokes, appears to take a cell phone picture of the schedule once it’s posted in full. Perhaps for Insta-Face.

In all seriousness, this was a fantastic piece of work by the Rams’ video team. The team is in uncharted waters with their very young head coach and the clip was a raw piece of drama that fans are rarely allowed to see. I’ve watched it a dozen times already and can safely proclaim that North has an excellent sense of humor, as does the Rams’ coaching staff. Here’s hoping to more of these down the road.