Matt LaFleur, new Rams offensive coordinator, will try to get run and pass games working togetherGary Klein
The feeling won’t go away. Matt LaFleur, the Rams’ new offensive coordinator, suspects it never will completely.
As quarterbacks coach for the Atlanta Falcons, he recently experienced an epic Super Bowl defeat to the New England Patriots.
And the aftermath.
“I was grieving for a couple days, there’s no doubt about it,” LaFleur said Thursday when asked whether he has been able to move past the loss, “but if you live in the past you’re not going to go anywhere with your future.”
LaFleur began looking ahead this week when he arrived in Thousand Oaks to join new Coach Sean McVay’s staff.
Much like McVay, at 31 the youngest coach in modern NFL history, the 37-year-old LaFleur is a young but experienced coach who appears even more youthful than his age.
After coaching quarterbacks for the Falcons, Washington Redskins and Notre Dame, this will be LaFleur’s first opportunity as an NFL coordinator.
McVay said last week that he developed “a really close relationship” with LaFleur during their years working together in Washington.
“Detail oriented, good communicator, been around some of the most productive offenses over the last couple of years,” McVay said. “You look at what Atlanta was able to do. A lot of the things that we do philosophically will be very similar.”
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