This will bring back some memories... I'm guessing Steve Smith would have loved to play for our coach.
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McVay Breaks Down SECRET to Successful Play Calling
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duanevalle22
UDFA
I started on a new leaf with McVay last season, and he has done an outstanding job this season.
Prior to that McVay would just frustrate me with how he would burn all three timeouts by the end of the 1st and 3rd quarters. And those ridiculous flag football trick plays he would try to run that worked maybe 5% of the time.... And of course how he treated Goff was just inexcusable. Glad McVay learned from that, and Goff shook it off and reclaimed his career.
Prior to that McVay would just frustrate me with how he would burn all three timeouts by the end of the 1st and 3rd quarters. And those ridiculous flag football trick plays he would try to run that worked maybe 5% of the time.... And of course how he treated Goff was just inexcusable. Glad McVay learned from that, and Goff shook it off and reclaimed his career.
If McVay frustrated you, how did you feel about Martz?
In my opinion, McVay is the best head coach the Rams have had in the 55 years that I have been a diehard fan.
And that period includes George Allen, Chuck Knox, John Robinson and Dick Vermeil … all high-quality head coaches.
Martz on Time Outs:
“You can’t take them with you”
duanevalle22
UDFA
Stop the presses...... Ground Chuck was the man in my eyes.... If it wasn't for Fran Tarkenton and those miserable conditions in Bloomington Minnesota I still believe Chuck would have got a Super Bowl or two.
Tarkenton and Staubach are why those great 70s teams never got to the SB until the year they weren't great...
Ram QB play in the playoffs was always lesser than what those two teams had. Killed them against those two defenses that, if not better, were at least as good as the Rams.
WestCoastRam
Legend
Martz inoculated me to wasting timeouts
SteezyEndo
The Immaculate Exception
McVays secret to play calling is go 3&out as quickly as possible to get the Defense back out on the field.
fearsomefour
Legend
I agree and it is not very close.
I agree.
However, I also think Robinson had an additional burden of a Front Office that had no quality football people but thought they knew best, and were frequently the decision makers.
Reminds me of all the companies I ever worked for.
This ^
Robinson was a much better coach than given credit for. The fact that he completely re-thunk his offensive philosophy halfway through his Rams tenure - going from run first, run always (practically embedded in his DNA) - to a pass heavy offense with Ernie Zampese calling the shots is a testament to his flexibility, and one that is rare among coaches. Jeff Fisher might have lasted longer if he had the same flexibility, but he didn't and it sunk him in the end.
John Shaw and Ziggy and the boys put on their medical evaluation expert hats on that one. And missed just like they did with damn near every pick in that era. So goddamn painful.
This is why I have to laugh when I hear fans acting like they're giving McVay a pass on this or that. What would it feel like to be living in the best era of this team's history yet somehow remain ignorant of that fact.
WestCoastRam
Legend
Fisher and Martz oddly had similar problems, guys who were the top of their profession - pushing the ideas of their predecessors to new heights (Fisher with Buddy Ryan and Martz with Zampese) but they couldn't evolve and either stuck with their outmoded schemes or stuck with their way of coaching not able to flexibly work with the changing NFL environment.
Yeah...because McVay can have what I call Martz-itus. Against the Jags up 21-0 and he ignores the running game which definitely eats more clock and he kept passing the ball. How do you do that with Williams and Corum???
ROD members break down secret to why that last play in the 49's loss was not a successful play call.