John McVay back with the Rams, multiple assistant coaches Gone,
Led by special teams coordinator, Jodi Camillus.
Also offensive line coach. Carr, very defensive backs,
coach John Cooley, couple of assistant coaches two
assistants assistant to the assistant also gone Liam:. The
offensive coordinator already left for the same job with
the University of Kentucky, which still
seems weird to me. It's a lateral move to a bi-level
college program.
All due respect to University of Kentucky football. But come
on, will you? I know West Virginia's bi-level now at
best, it's just kind of the way the nll world has gone. So
Peter,
your reaction to the news of a semi overhaul to the Sean
McVeigh coaching staff.
Totally unsurprising to me anyway because
I had heard that. Sean McVeigh is this season went on one of
the things that
added to his angst anger, frustration. Whatever is it he
didn't like the composition of his coaching staff that he
basically felt like there, weren't enough people bringing
ideas challenging him
and I think that led to
Him saying internally. Hey listen,
if you guys get an opportunity to coach somewhere else
take it, I encourage you to take it.
However that was that was said,
I think Sean McVeigh
and look you know the interesting thing is this week,
the Rams offices are closed but I'll tell you one person who is
working this week and that Sean McVeigh, he
everybody knows every, I mean it's been the worst kept secret
around the Rams that the Rams really would like Him to
disappear for two or three weeks and to basically go and
drink my ties and just not think about football for
a while.
Well, Sean McVeigh, I think eventually is going to do that,
but he's not going to do it while they're all these musical
chairs throughout the NFL with assistant coaches. He wants to
get his coaching staff taken care of.
And so that's why he is still
nose to the grindstone instead of
having in gone to Hawaii or to Timbuktu wherever.
And one other thing might,
I think it is particularly important
for Sean McVeigh to find
a coach.
On offense, who can say to him, hey, Sean
bad idea. Here's why blah, whether or not
Sean, McVeigh takes that advice.
I think he needs
a more veteran coach. I think he needs a Frank Reich type.
Whoever whoever it is a guy who has been down the road and it
was used to sing, to the head coach, hey,
I'm going to challenge you on this thing.
That is what Sean McVeigh needs, particularly on his offensive.
Staff.
I've identified the various potential theories as to why
Shawn McVeigh ultimately stayed at a time when it felt like
the momentum was building toward him leaving. I'm curious as to
what you have learned or what you believe was the reason. And
there may have been more than one
that came together
to cause him to push back against the momentum that was
building toward the possibility that he would step down.
That there was no great TV job number one, number two that he
didn't want to go out on his first failed season as a head
coach.
Number three, he's 37 years old,
he's not burned out, he's pissed off,
that's what he is
and he is extraordinary. Disappointed that for the rest
of time. He will have what was it five and twelve next to his
name on his resume
for one year. Then he coached in the NFL, he didn't want to
go out this way. And I also think Mike
that the one thing
that people need to understand right now about Sean McVeigh
is that he still loves football. He loves coaching, he
didn't want
out. However if there had been an alternative at 18 million
a year
to go be a new Tony Romo or Collinsworth
or whoever I think For three or four years, he would have been
excited about looking at that, but absolutely unequivocally.
He was not done with coaching,
and I think he wants to come back next year
with a Vengeance
with a new coaching staff, and show everybody that last year
was a fluke.
New players would help. The problem is when you have
mortgaged your future with an F, then picks mindset and that
nucleus of rising great young players that you don't have.
Because you traded those pics for aging veterans, who create
salary cap problems.
It's a multi-year rebuild and Peter. One of the things
I firmly believe he was stung by the criticism, both internally
and externally of the perception
that he was getting out while the getting was good.
Yeah I think you're right about that. Mike, can I just say one
more thing about one thing that you just said and you're right
about what you just said. But there's also one point
the Rams have a pic around 37 or 38 I forget what number it is
overall in the sector now.
Okay, in
well, here's my opinion. Watch
that pic will become three fours.
Les, Snead will now, become less enamored
of Trying to bid on the great veteran in free agency or
trying to trade for the great veteran. Instead,
I think there are those inside the Rams organization of say,
okay? You think we can't build it through the draft, you think
we can't contend for a Super Bowl by building through
the draft, even with the Des advantageous position.
We're in right now,
watch, we are going to build
through the draft