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  • January 10, 2024 at 10:22 pm #148562
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    Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
    Sean McVay walks into a packed-to-the-brim press room. “Oh, shit, the game must be important.”
    January 10, 2024 at 11:39 pm #148570
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    zn wrote:
    Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
    Sean McVay walks into a packed-to-the-brim press room. “Oh, shit, the game must be important.”

    Is it safe to say now that McVay is the greatest coach in Rams’ history?

    I think it is. Robinson, Vermeil, Knox…those are the only other guys to get in that discussion. While creating great runs for the Rams, neither Knox nor Robinson got to the Super Bowl, so I think they’re out, in spite of sustained success in the regular season.

    Vermeil pulled a miracle, but then left.

    McVay has been to the Super Bowl twice, winning once, and then did whatever the hell this year was/is.

    I think it’s McVay.

    January 11, 2024 at 8:12 am #148575
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    Stu Jackson@StuJRams
    @RamsNFL DT Aaron Donald selected to second annual  @NFLPA Players’ All-Pro team:
    January 11, 2024 at 8:59 am #148579
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    Tom Pelissero@TomPelissero
    The NFL’s current longest-tenured head coaches with one team:

    1. Mike Tomlin (17 seasons)
    2. John Harbaugh (16 seasons)
    3. Andy Reid (11 seasons)
    4. (tie) Sean McDermott, Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay (7 seasons)
    7. (tie) Zac Taylor and Matt LaFleur (5 seasons)

    January 11, 2024 at 1:00 pm #148588
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    January 11, 2024 at 4:49 pm #148606
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    PFF LA Rams@PFF_Rams
    Kobie Turner: 83.8 PFF grade this season 7th among all rookies
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    roberto clemente@rclemente2121
    Even more impressive, he ranks 8th among 92 interior defensive linemen (min 400 snaps), i.e. among rookies and vets!

     

    January 11, 2024 at 6:41 pm #148619
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    Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
    Rams RB Kyren Williams had a good comment on position coach Ron Gould in his first year in the role in the NFL: “He cares a lot about his players … He gives as much to all of us as he does individually to us. He allows me to slow myself down and understand the game that is

    actually in front of me. … When he got here, he sat me down and (taught) me the game of football. His motto is, ‘understanding leads to control.’ If you understand what you’re doing, you can control the situation depending on you.”

    January 11, 2024 at 7:37 pm #148623
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    zn wrote:

    Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue Rams RB Kyren Williams had a good comment on position coach Ron Gould in his first year in the role in the NFL: “He cares a lot about his players … He gives as much to all of us as he does individually to us. He allows me to slow myself down and understand the game that is actually in front of me. … When he got here, he sat me down and (taught) me the game of football. His motto is, ‘understanding leads to control.’ If you understand what you’re doing, you can control the situation depending on you.”

    This ties in with the description of McVay’s revamping of the coaching staff. He deliberately hired guys with a positive attitude and an ability to teach. Looks like some of the staff weren’t helping with the culture. Maybe he got rid of some dicks.

    Looks like everyone is having fun now.

    January 11, 2024 at 10:20 pm #148634
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    Zooey wrote:

    Looks like some of the staff weren’t helping with the culture. Maybe he got rid of some dicks.

     

    was that the case though? i think at least in the example of gould i think more than anything it was the experience he brought. samples came in last year as a 28 year old i think. it sounded more like he was in over his head. maybe i’m wrong. maybe samples was more interested in moving up the ladder than being fully invested as a running backs coach. whereas gould – not that he isn’t necessarily trying to promote – but he brings years of experience as an assistant coach. he’s got like thirty years of experience on samples – at various positions. it was a rather abrupt change. i think samples left before the season even ended. i wonder what happened there.

    January 11, 2024 at 10:43 pm #148637
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    InvaderRam wrote:
    Zooey wrote:

    Looks like some of the staff weren’t helping with the culture. Maybe he got rid of some dicks.

    was that the case though? i think at least in the example of gould i think more than anything it was the experience he brought. samples came in last year as a 28 year old i think. it sounded more like he was in over his head. maybe i’m wrong. maybe samples was more interested in moving up the ladder than being fully invested as a running backs coach. whereas gould – not that he isn’t necessarily trying to promote – but he brings years of experience as an assistant coach. he’s got like thirty years of experience on samples – at various positions. it was a rather abrupt change. i think samples left before the season even ended. i wonder what happened there.

    You are probably right. I went back through the articles where I thought I read that between the lines, and I couldn’t find anything to support that claim. It was mostly Xs and Os, and not attitude. Attitude came through elsewhere, but not in the coaching decisions.

    January 12, 2024 at 7:31 am #148638
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    InvaderRam wrote:

    i think at least in the example of gould i think more than anything it was the experience he brought. samples came in last year as a 28 year old i think. it sounded more like he was in over his head.

    Some material from “the archive.”

    Bit 1:

    https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2023-09-22/sean-mcvay-rams-cam-akers-trade-vikings

    McVay had moved the much-respected Thomas Brown from running backs coach to tight ends to bolster the assistant’s resume in pursuit of an offensive coordinator job. McVay replaced him with Ra’Shaad Samples, a young coach with no NFL experience.

    Early in the season, McVay called out Akers for a lack of intensity. He later exiled Akers for several games and the Rams unsuccessfully tried to trade him.

    By December, Samples was encouraged to move on for an opportunity at Arizona State. Brown resumed coaching running backs and Akers finished the season by rushing for more than 100 yards in three straight games.

    Last February, the Carolina Panthers hired Brown as offensive coordinator, and McVay hired Ron Gould as running backs coach.

    Bit 2. This bit is a transcript from a Rodrigue podcast. The immediate topic here was, how the Rams had to rush to replace coaches after the super bowl in 2021, which meant they started later than usual:

    He started to hire people who were green who he thought he could mold to be an extension of his own thinking on the kinds of core things he wants to do. Samples, the RB coach, came up. Brown was moved out of the RB room and then the issues start and (Rodrigue strongly implies) Samples wasn’t up to it. The RB room imploded. Now they didn’t have a coach with the tools to solve that (they then moved Brown back to RB). A lot of this also had to do with the fact that because they went to the super bowl, the position coaches McV wanted weren’t there anymore.

    January 12, 2024 at 6:16 pm #148647
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    Blaine Grisak @bgrisakTST
    When Stafford, Williams, Nacua, and Kupp are on the field together, the Rams average .18 EPA per play…That’s tied for the 9th-highest mark since the 2000 season.
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    With a .16 EPA per designed rush, the Rams are tied for 1st since 2000.
    January 12, 2024 at 6:17 pm #148648
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    January 14, 2024 at 12:21 am #148661
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    January 14, 2024 at 8:37 am #148668
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    January 14, 2024 at 9:15 am #148675
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    Pro Football Reference@pfref
    The winning starting quarterback of today’s Lions/Rams matchup will become the first quarterback ever to win a playoff game against a team for which he previously started a playoff game.
    January 14, 2024 at 10:20 am #148677
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    roberto clemente@rclemente2121
    most wins by a rams hc: mcvay passed knox in wk13 vs cle and is now only 2 gms behind j.robinson – if the rams reach/win the cc gm, mcvay will become the rams all-time win leader. most games coached by a rams hc: mcvay can tie knox w/ a win today, and pass him next week.
    January 14, 2024 at 1:19 pm #148688
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    Blaine Grisak@bgrisakTST
    Rams safety Quentin Lake ranks fifth in yards per snap in the slot and fourth in fewest yards allowed.
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