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Photographic memory? “If that wasn’t agreed …”
The video, not only that
Björn Werner in a kicker interview
astonishes (“If that wasn’t agreed …”), gives in two minutes and twelve seconds why two years after his arrival in Los Angeles
half the league is looking for the “next Sean McVay”.
The youngest head coach in NFL history has made a name for himself in a very short time with his meticulous work, the relationship with his players and the football-mad head. Sunday night (0.30 a.m., LIVE! At kicker.de,
on DAZN
and at ProSieben) the 33-year-old meets the 33-year-old Bill Belichick in the Super Bowl – a predetermined path.
McVay comes from a football family, his father Tim played as defensive back for Indiana University, his grandfather John was general manager of the San Francisco 49ers in their five Super Bowl victories between 1981 and 1994. Because John McVay previously worked as Head Coach at the University of Dayton from 1965 to 1972, the family settled in southwest Ohio. Sean McVay lived in Dayton up to the age of six and later went to the Marist School in Brookhaven (Georgia), for whose football team (the “War Eagles”) he was active for four years as a quarterback and defensive back – and even successfully .
Football nepotism: Sean McVay benefits from John McVay
In his senior year, McVay led the War Eagles to the State Championship and was named 4A Offensive Player of the Year in Georgia. Although he was unable to build on his successful high school years at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), McVay was already convincing there with his thinking outside the box. “He understood everything,” praised his college coach Shane Montgomery, who had retrained McVay as a wide receiver, later. “He got the whole offense and was a great leader.”
McVay didn’t catch a touchdown pass in college, but he still wanted to stay true to the sport after graduating. Since his family was well connected and friends with the Gruden family, mainly thanks to Grandfather John, McVay got a foot in the door in 2008 thanks to vitamin B.
Jon Gruden
, at that time still head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, installed McVay as assistant wide receiver coach. “How many kids are hired straight out of college in the NFL?” Remarked Father Tim McVay. “Really not many. All of a sudden he was one of Jon’s assistants and is completely dedicated to this task.”
After Gruden was released from the Bucs, McVay’s NFL career had to take a short break, instead he worked in the (no longer existing) United Football League as a wide receiver coach for the Florida Tuskers – under offensive coordinator Jay Gruden, John’s brother. That reason who later brought McVay onto the big stage.
This time Gruden McVay follows – and the rise is taking shape
In 2010, two years after graduating from college, head coach veteran Mike Shanahan brought McVay to the Washington Redskins as an assistant tight-end coach because McVay “asked questions people his age don’t usually ask,” like the Washington Post later quoted Shanahan. In the following year, the “assistant” addition was deleted from his job title.
His predecessor remembers exactly how McVay worked his way up quickly. “I heard him installing Plays through the wall,” said Matt LaFleur,
new Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers
, the platform “The Ringer”. “That was pretty impressive.” LaFleur was then promoted to quarterbacks coach and therefore had more and more to do with McVay. “I knew he was going to be head coach when I first met him. He’s just incredibly positive energy, he’s extremely intelligent, loves football more than anyone I know and is just brilliant. I think he could have a photographic memory. ”
McVay recommends LA: “It took less than ten minutes”
When Jay Gruden McVay followed to the capital in 2014 and was introduced as the new head coach of the Redskins, he promoted his old companion to offensive coordinator; McVay was then just 28. He retired three years later with the recommendation of the second best passing offense in the league, but Washington missed the play-offs.
Get it: Sean McVay and quarterback Jared Goff.
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McVay had made a name for himself, even if he wasn’t hailed as the “offensive guru” (original quote Björn Werner) that he is today. Among other things, the Rams were looking for a new head coach in 2017, had just completed the move to Los Angeles, ended the unspeakable Jeff Fisher era and the season with number one pick Jared Goff (seven games, seven defeats) and a 4:12 record as the worst offense in the league. Goff was quickly considered a draft disaster.
General Manager Les Snead invited McVay for an interview.
“It didn’t take ten minutes”
as he later revealed to “The Ringer”, Snead was already convinced. “From intuition. To listen to him with this enthusiasm and his communication skills. I just thought: ‘You know what? I’ll buy it from him.'”
The league’s youngest head coach turns a franchise inside out
A year later, at 31 years of age, the youngest head coach in NFL history had converted the worst into the best offense, reached the play-offs in his first year, shaped Goff from draft disaster to Pro Bowl quarterback and became the coach of the Appointed year. “It’s unbelievable,” said Patriots receiver Julian Edelman the other day, who played against McVay himself in college and will face him on Sunday. “He’s my age and runs an entire organization for the Super Bowl.”
Also read: Part I and Part II of the big kicker interview with former NFL professional Björn Werner – about the Super Bowl, draft curiosities, the next German wave and much more.
How? On the one hand with charisma and communication. “For anyone who meets Sean, age is completely irrelevant,” says left tackle Andrew Whitworth, one of McVay’s most important new signings. “As soon as you talk to him, you realize that his intellect and understanding of the game are on another level.” Goff is also full of praise: “How he communicates things, how he makes the most complicated moves look so simple. I just thought ‘wow’.” The “wrestler” sums it up like this: “McVay doesn’t train football, he teaches football.”
Werner is also enthusiastic: “People think that’s cool”
Goff & Co. benefit not only from communication, but also from playing style. No team plays more 11-personell (a formation with a running back, a tight end and three wide receivers) than the Rams (96 percent). From a formation that looks almost the same before every snap, endless possibilities are exhausted, which often catch the opposing defense on the wrong foot. “That’s why we’re so difficult to defend,” praised Goff, who meets with McVay every Monday and Friday to prepare new moves for the upcoming opponent.
With the play-action-heavy game, Goff also escapes Pass Rush. The 24-year-old, like McVay and so many others in his first Super Bowl, is the most vulnerable under pressure
and also revealed that in the middle of the season.
The quarterback and his coach have freed themselves from the hole together.
McVay isn’t your average coach, not just because of his age. “He controls the superstars,” explains ex-NFL pro Werner, “you don’t see that often either.” At 4 a.m., McVay is the first at the Rams’ training ground in Thousand Oaks, northwest of Los Angeles. He becomes a Twitter hero every week; sometimes because of too violent cheering attacks with Goff; sometimes because he knows the opposing squad better than their coach; sometimes because of his athletic coach, whose only job in the game is to keep McVay away from the umpires around the field to avoid penalties. “McVay shows his emotions and how much he loves football,” says Werner. “People think that’s cool.”
“I’m sure many players want to have a beer with him after the game.”
A Super Bowl bankruptcy would be a blow in the neck for the Rams, but not a broken leg. Even if Goff soon no longer plays under his rookie contract and the free agency options are then somewhat restricted, the young roster is designed to play at the top for a longer period of time. Björn Werner would wish McVay the triumph, even if he relies on the experience of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. McVay’s reputation would not be diminished: “I’m sure many players will want to have a beer with him after the game.”
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