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March 20, 2019 at 8:48 pm #99153
znModeratorAsst. QBs coach Robinson on Goff: “You just want to keep on the trajectory he’s on right now.”
Myles Simmons
In late August last year, Pro Football Focus put out a video breakdown of the Rams’ offense. It detailed how Los Angeles used different concepts — like play-action passes, using certain personnel groups — in order to create mismatches and advantages in scheme.
The host of that video? Zac Robinson, who is the Rams’ new assistant quarterbacks coach.
“Really impressed with some of the things he was doing with PFF,” head coach Sean McVay said of Robinson earlier this month at the NFL Combine. “He had some impressive things, whether it be breaking down our scheme or, he watched as much tape as anybody over the last couple years, with the things he was being asked to do.”
While Robinson has “assistant” in his title, McVay noted that Robinson will be running the day-to-day operations of the quarterbacks room. Passing game coordinator/quarterbacks Shane Waldron will have more of an overseeing/advisory role for the signal-callers. And then, of course, McVay will remain the team’s offensive playcaller.
But for Robinson, this is his first job coaching in the league. After playing college ball at Oklahoma State, Robinson was drafted by the Patriots in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He bounced around to a few other teams, but never accumulated any pro stats.
Recently, Robinson’s been working for Pro Football Focus as an analyst. And he’s also helped prepare quarterbacks for the Combine — as well as worked with a few QBs already in the league to aid in their improvement.
But now he’s taking all that experience to his first professional coaching job on the L.A. Rams.
“It’s definitely helped out big-time,” Robinson told therams.com of his previous experiences. “I’ve been trying to stay in-tune, and take a big picture of what’s going on with different schemes throughout the league — defense, offense, and getting kind of a big-picture of it. And then just getting in the mix, I’m fired up to be on a team. You always miss the competitiveness and being around a team and working toward a goal. So being a part of that again is what I’m fired up about.”
Robinson is also excited to work with quarterback Jared Goff — who Robinson has been studying for years.
“Obviously I’ve been a huge fan of Jared’s game since he was in college,” Robinson said. “And following his career so far and watching every throw that he’s made in the NFL, and just staying in tune with what he’s doing. But obviously, he’s a great player. So I’m excited to get to be around him and hopefully help continue to develop him. He’s so good in such a natural player right now that you just kind of want to keep on the trajectory he’s on right now.”
“He’s got just a great poise about him, great demeanor, never too high, never too low — so you love that part,” Robinson added. “And then you mentioned the throws from the pocket — he’s got every throw in the book. You love to see he can get out on the move and extend a little bit outside the pocket. So he’s got everything you’re looking for — great leader from everything I hear from the guys, and everybody loves him. So, obviously, all that stuff is really important.”
March 24, 2019 at 9:39 pm #99272znModeratorNew members of the Rams coaching staff are quickly learning McVay’s culture
The Rams added to their coaching staff not long after season’s end, bringing on assistant quarterbacks coach Zac Robinson from his previous stop as an analyst at Pro Football Focus and adding a brand-new defensive line coach in Eric Henderson, who was formerly with the Chargers.
The pair joins the Rams ahead of year three in the Sean McVay era. And for both coaches, the club’s culture is palpable.
“The energy around here is phenomenal and it’s contagious,” Henderson said a few weeks after moving just north L.A. “When you walk into this building, I’m telling you there is a different feeling and to be a part of something like that and bring the energy that I already have, I think it’s just a great mesh and I’m excited about that.”
Henderson, who speaks from experience as a former staff member in both the professional and college ranks, is joined in excitement by his first-time professional coach counterpart, who’s been away from the NFL since 2012.
“I’m fired up about being on a team,” Robinson said. “You always miss the competitiveness and being around a team and working toward a goal, so being a part of that again is what I am fired up about.”
The former analyst said he’s enjoyed seeing McVay’s offensive operation centered on quarterback Jared Goff up close and is looking forward to the chance to be a part of it.
“You can tell that everybody in this thing together and the ‘We Not Me’ philosophy, it’s preached and it’s acted out by everybody throughout the building,” Robinson said. “I’m excited to just keep learning from those guys and you can see why they are having success here, it’s because they are smart guys that are all in it together and work really hard.”
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