Athletic ranks McVay #2 of top offensive playcallers

[WestCoastRam]

Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay top defensive peers’ ratings of NFL’s offensive play callers

A sample of NFL defensive coordinators and coaches say who they think is best at designing and executing an offense.

www.nytimes.com

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2. Sean McVay, Rams​

Many coaches view Shanahan and McVay as 1a and 1b. Like Shanahan, McVay’s play calling helped keep the Rams playing at a high level despite multiple injuries. Their offensive line was ravaged, Puka Nacua missed five games, and Cooper Kupp regressed with injuries and age last season. Yet the Rams remained efficient, finishing eighth in success rate and 10th in DVOA.

McVay has drastically evolved his offense from a highly systemized and coach-controlled outside zone, play-action system into a gap scheme, quarterback-centered, more spread-out system with Matthew Stafford at the helm. Coaches surveyed gave McVay a lot of credit for giving Stafford the tools to weaponize his football IQ at the line of scrimmage.

McVay’s career low point was in Super Bowl LIII, in which the Rams only scored 3 points in a loss to the Patriots. In that game, he couldn’t adjust to Bill Billichick’s 6-1 front. With years of experience, McVay’s ability to adjust is now levels above where it was early in his career.

“I think he can just see it live the best,” one defensive coordinator said. “He has a full Rolodex of plays. He can get to anything on his call sheet, but he can also get to anything in his head. If he needs to adjust in-game, he can completely come up with a new game plan on the spot. So it’s almost to the point now where he’s seen a lot. He has such a good memory of everything, with 12 years of experience calling plays and reacting to stuff. If you’re playing this (defense), he’s going to go to this … and he can do it in a second. That’s weird that he can just adjust so easily.”

 

[Faceplant]

Let's hope this is a good year, with minimal injuries. Interested to see the latest evolution of this offense with DA at the X and strong TE and RB corps. If they can average 24+ PPG, this team can go deeeeeep.

 

[fearsomefour]

Its been awhile since the Rams had a consistently dynamic offense.
So.....this casts a bit of doubt perhaps.....but, when you look at what McVay has done over the last two years with disaster injury scenarios and all the rest....a truly remarkable job by McVay.