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I looked up the ranking for redzone efficiency and for 2023, the Rams ranked 8th (66%). Over McVay’s career the Rams have gone back and forth between middle of the pack (c. 50%) to top 10(60%-65%).
Here’s my take: You want to convert at a 75% clip. If you do that, you’re top 3 in the league.
What I think McVay doesn’t truly and really grasp is that his talent is in open field. He’s trying to get the defense dizzy when he’s on the 50 yard line and there’s enough room for that there.
But you can’t make a defense dizzy at 1st and goal at the 10. There’s not enough field.
So, he either figures out that you have to pound a tent stake into solid ground down there or let someone else call the plays. He, IMO, hasn’t grasped the real nature of how the game changes down there.
He should either follow his own lead—we not me—and hand over the play calling duties to someone who can get it done since he can’t or win the war on his own ignorance about this facet of the game.
His red zone efficiency—as great a coach he is—is pedestrian.
Top 8 isn’t exactly pedestrian though…. I could see if we were constantly in the bottom half, but we aren’t. ..could he improve? Sure but Sometimes players don’t execute, it isn’t always about the play call… the last throw to Kupp was a bad one. The OL couldn’t run block to save their lives last night. Sometimes you just gotta give credit to the other team too
Just to be clear, I’m in the McVay is an elite HC camp and he changed this year for the better by emphasizing a different run technique and calling more run plays.
But I do think, like anyone else who coaches for that matter, he sees the Red Zone as just another spot on the field when it’s a different animal. And I’m throwing things out there because I think if he acknowledges the RZ as a lacuna in his play calling arsenal, he’d work on it and then do it better than anyone else before. That’s the kind of guy he is.
I just hope he sees it as something he needs to study in depth.
We Not Me