McVay also interviewed with SF. What the SF press has to say about him ought to be of interest to us, too, though.

Sean McVay is 49ers’ most intriguing head-coach candidate

Eric Branch

http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-most-intriguing-HC-candidate-Sean-McVay-10835854.php

It’s too early to determine a favorite to be the 49ers’ next head coach, but there’s no question about their most intriguing candidate.
He’s younger than five players on their roster and has a close connection to the moribund franchise’s good-old days.
He’s Washington offensive coordinator Sean McVay, 30, the youngest coordinator in the NFL. He is the grandson of former executive John McVay. Sean McVay will interview with the 49ers on Monday in New York, exactly a week after CEO Jed York invoked McVay’s grandfather at a news conference that followed a 2-14 season.

The 49ers also went 2-14 in 1978, and hired Bill Walsh, who hired McVay as the director of player personnel. It was the start of McVay’s 21-season tenure, which included each of the 49ers’ five Super Bowl titles and led to his induction into the team’s Hall of Fame in 2013.
“You need to make sure that the right personalities are there,” York said. “We go back to Bill Walsh. Bill Walsh hired John McVay and they worked together and they were a team.”

The 49ers, of course, are seeking a head coach and general manager after the awkward arranged marriage between Chip Kelly and Trent Baalke dissolved after less than a calendar year.

The question: Thirty-seven years after his grandfather was part of dramatic about-face, is Sean McVay the head coach to hire as York tries to locate another turnaround tandem?

At first blush, McVay’s age would seem to be a disqualifier.
After whiffing on back-to-back coaches, can York really hand over the rebuilding project to someone 11 years younger than kicker Phil Dawson?
McVay, who will turn 31 on Jan. 24, would be the youngest head coach in the NFL’s modern era, eight months younger than Lane Kiffin was when he joined the Raiders in 2007. Kiffin’s two-season tenure was a failure, and the subsequent hirings of 32-year-olds Raheem Morris (Tampa Bay, 2009) and Josh McDaniels (Denver, 2009) also ended poorly.

Still, NFL history also includes plenty of coaches who weren’t much older than McVay when they started Super Bowl-winning careers: John Madden (32), Don Shula (33), Jon Gruden (34), Bill Cowher (34) and Mike Tomlin (34).

McVay’s name might have helped get him in the NFL door, but he has risen through the ranks on merit.
In 2008, McVay was hired by Gruden, a family friend, as the Buccaneers’ assistant wide receivers coach. McVay has spent the past seven seasons with Washington, ascending from assistant tight ends coach (2010), to tight ends coach (2011-13), to offensive coordinator when he was 28 in 2014.

If he’s hired by the 49ers, McVay would bring a deep appreciation for the franchise’s storied past.
Growing up in Atlanta, he played catch with Steve Young and Jerry Rice when the 49ers made their then-annual trip there, it was noted in a Sports Illustrated feature in August.

The story also described McVay studying, again, the 49ers’ final drive in the 1981 NFC title game.
“People think it’s Joe Montana winning this game,” McVay said. “No, sir. It’s this (run) ‘18-19 Bob!’ Look at all these extra bodies in the backfield. Here’s ‘18-19 Bob’ again.”

The game was played Jan. 10, 1982, four years before McVay was born, but, indeed, the 49ers’ 13-play, 89-yard drive that culminated in The Catch included 45 rushing yards and just five completions.

Say this: The kid coach seems to know his stuff.

Interviews: The 49ers conducted their first head-coaching interview with Buffalo interim head coach Anthony Lynn on Wednesday. They are scheduled to interview GM candidates Eliot Wolf and Brian Gutekunst, both Packers executives, in Green Bay on Thursday.[

nittany ram wrote:

I remembered it and decided to get this.

All you got was a lousy jpeg?

Now if you had gotten an actual real helmet like the one in your jpeg there, THAT would have been VERY cool.

TSRF wrote:

I’m about to shut off the Steelers game and go hang with my Game of Thrones binge watching family.

I want the Giants to win

The giants are pretty prominent in season 6.

Or, one is, anyway.

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Billy_T wrote:

Okay, ZN. Understood. Will let it go.

I got caught doing edit trickery. I deleted the post you quote there to move it to the end of the thread, so it would be after the post by you that’s previous to the one I’m responding to (posted at 1:47 PM.)

But you responded to it just as I deleted it.

So here it is as intended but now out of sequence.

If that’s confusing I apologize.

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Just a couple of notes.

Referring to routine mod actions as “censorship” is being antagonistic. The onus is on the poster to make it clear they are not attacking another poster. If nothing else say “this is not directed at posters but at….”

And, BT, pushing someone for answers is not productive. It creates a charged atmosphere and personalizes discussion (though obviously it’s not the same as a personal attack.) On a politics board, it is possible (in theory) either that there’s complete miscommunication that won’t be amended by pushing, or the person chooses not to answer, or they think they did answer. So I guess I am just saying, don’t push people in ways they can or do on other boards. Just a suggestion. The idea is we’re here for the long haul and something dropped today can be picked up again later in other ways, so “demanding an answer” (scare quote not real quote) just isn’t productive, really, and can cause sparks.

zn wrote:

bnw wrote:

I would respond and in the same vernacular but again I would be accused of name-calling. Enjoy the safe space.

I clip everyone here for calling other posters names. Ask all the participants in this thread.

Going after a political party? It’s silly and empty, and isn’t real discussion, but it’s not the same as attacking a poster.

And…again, this isn’t open to discussion. (Making veiled references to your own inaccurate claims about mods is still discussing it btw.) Just act accordingly, like everyone else usually does, and it’s all fine.

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And move on means move on. Period.

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Algebra and Trigometry and Calculus

Oh my

Rams cast wide net in coaching search

VINCENT BONSIGNORE

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/coach-740553-coordinator-rams.html

As the Rams criss-crossed the country this week searching for their new head coach, two things became abundantly clear.

As evidenced by the 11 candidates they’ll sit down with by the end of the first week they can interview current NFL assistants, they are casting as wide a net as possible to find their coach.

That’s a bit of a change from their last head coaching search five years ago when they immediately zeroed in on Jeff Fisher and then waited out his decision.

That doesn’t mean they don’t already have a preference on who they ultimately want as their next head coach, but they are clearly deepening the pool from which they will choose.

Second, they are targeting young, offensive-minded assistants and seem undeterred by age or even volume of years as a coordinator or play caller. Previous head coaching experience clearly isn’t a prerequisite.

Just look at who they are targeting.

Washington offensive coordinator Sean McVay, who interviewed on Thursday, is 30 years old and just completed his second year as an offensive coordinator. Anthony Lynn, who the Rams will talk to Sunday , was elevated from running backs coach to offensive coordinator to interim head coach of the Bills over the past five months. Harold Goodwin, who the Rams interviewed Thursday, has been the Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator the past four seasons but doesn’t call plays.

Meanwhile, the perceived two top candidates are both young offensive coordinators with backgrounds as assistants.

Say what you want about Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and how his success is solely tied into working with Tom Brady, but if you believe Brady, his coordinator has been a genuine asset in his continued dominance. And that’s worth something, even with McDaniel’s face plant during his two years as the head coach of the Denver Broncos.

Lastly, Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan has built top-10 offenses in three different stops with three vastly different quarterbacks, having overseen productive attacks in Houston with Matt Schaub, Washington with Robert Griffin III and now Atlanta with Matt Ryan.

The Rams will conclude their first round of interviews by week’s end with sitdowns with McDaniel and Shanahan during the Patriots’ and Falcons’ playoff bye weeks. And that will conclude a six-day search that leaned decidedly toward youth, fresh ideas and offense.

That doesn’t mean one of the defensive coordinator candidates such as New England’s Matt Patricia or Carolina’s Steve Wilks won’t bubble to the top of the wish list.

But for now it seems clear the focus is on bringing in a new leader who will address their two biggest objectives: Fixing an offense that’s plummeted to the bottom of NFL rankings and creating an imaginative culture best suited to develop rookie quarterback Jared Goff and get second-year running back Todd Gurley back on track.

And while X’s and O’s are important, so too is an eye for talent, creating an environment of discipline and accountability and nurturing a culture that breeds winning.

In other words, everything that seemed to be missing under the previous regime.

Fisher came to the Rams after producing just two winning teams over his last seven years with the Tennessee Titans and was never able to cultivate a culture in which losing was overtly rejected.

His offensive personnel decisions came under question by the end of his tenure as linemen and wide receivers drafted with premium picks never developed as expected or were outright busts. As for the assistants he surrounded himself with – especially on offense – imagination and vision all seemed to be lacking, and players didn’t progress,

And while he created an enjoyable working environment, his laid-back nature wasn’t conducive to discipline or accountability. In the weeks after his firing, many former players pointed to those two factors as areas of improvement like to see in the next head coach.

The Rams will presumably have met face to face with that coach by the end of Sunday night.

The question is, are they any closer to figuring out who that coach is today than when the process clicked into high gear six days ago?

That’s difficult to answer, as it’s also dependent on who is interested in them as well.

Reports surfaced on Saturday indicating Shanahan prefers the Denver Broncos job, which opened last week when Gary Kubiak abruptly retired. That makes sense considering Shanahan’s connection to Denver, where his father, Mike, won two Super Bowl titles and was extremely close with quarterback John Elway.

Elway now runs the Broncos football operations, and met for four hours with Shanahan on Saturday.

As for McDaniels, there are hot and cold feelings about him. On the one hand he’s been instrumental in the success of Brady, but he was also two-year failure as the Broncos head coach. McDaniels has told people he’s a changed coach since the Broncos experience, but some scars take longer to heal than others. Also, there are reports surfacing he might be a package deal with Louis Riddick, with McDaniels the head coach and Riddick his general manager.

While the Rams appear open to moving on from current general manager Les Snead to accommodate a new coach’s wishes, would they be satisfied with a McDaniels/Riddick pairing and does that package work better in San Francisco, where the 49ers are searching for a new coach and general manager?

A name to keep an eye on, then, is McVay, who made a strong impression during his interview on Thursday.

Current and former players under McVay rave about his detail, imagination, teaching and play calling even after just two years as a coordinator. And Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins has developed into an upper-echelon quarterback working with McVay.

While his age might be an issue for some teams, that doesn’t appear top be a problem for the Rams.

But then, by casting such a wide net it’s tough to get a read yet on who the Rams are ready rule in or out.

off the net from laram

none of us have an opportunity to personally interview guys, so we go with the information available.

But that aside, we do have some additional information about Kyle Shanahan’s leadership/people skills. I’ve shared this privately, I guess I’ll share it here.

This is directly from Jessie Tuggle in his own words.

Bulldog, intense. a teacher on the practice field and is tough & meticulous on execution. makes them run the plays over and over until executed the way it was drawn up. involved in all parts of the offense, very hands on, line blocking schemes, inside outside leverage technigues. Done a tremendous job working with backs on reading blocks and where the cutback lanes will be. Involved in every aspect of the multiples of the offense and really hard on Matty.on his footwork and keeping a strong base. Historically Matty would have late seaosn collapses, he presses and loses the tenets of the offense. Kyle has stayed on him about staying with teh teachings of the position.. Demands the receivers run crisp routes and being where they suppose to be funny you ask about him now. Gab on the 64yd, practiced that play multiple times against 2 high. Saw a tendency with mike bite heavy on play action. Would hate to see him go, but if you get him you got a good one.

Rams doing their homework on Sean McVay

Mike Florio

Rams doing their homework on Sean McVay

The Rams are currently ruling out no head-coaching candidates. Eventually, they could be hiring the youngest guy on the list.

Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the Rams are spending a lot of time doing their homework on Washington offensive coordinator Sean McVay. The 30-year-old has generated plenty of buzz, and his work with Kirk Cousins apparently has prompted folks in L.A. to believe that McVay could get the most out of 2016 No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff.

The interest in McVay meshes with recent comments from Rams COO Kevin Demoff, who said that the search is focusing on current NFL assistant coaches. The other candidates are Rams special-teams coordinator/interim head coach John Fassel, Cardinals offensive coordinator Harold Goodwin, Dolphins defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, Bills offensive coordinator/interim head coach Anthony Lynn, Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott, Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, Panthers assistant head coach Steve Wilks, Jaguars offensive line coach/interim head coach Doug Marrone.

At this point, it’s unlikely that the Rams will make a run at former Raiders and Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden or Saints coach Sean Payton. Both had been linked to the Rams earlier in the process.

nittany ram wrote:

The countries with the highest achieving students get a secular education too.

Exactly.

Agamemnon wrote:

stupid electricity was off last night. I just had to say that.

Our electric goes out relatively a lot.

In winter, thank goodness for woodstoves.