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Sean McVay has the right soldiers in his battle against time

By Vincent Bonsignore, Los Angeles Daily News

In a literal sense, time didn’t really start flying by faster once Sean McVay took over as the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams.

Each day is still made up of 24 hours spread across 1,440 minutes.

None of that changed a month ago when the Rams made McVay the youngest head coach in NFL history after hiring the former Washington Redskins offensive coordinator to replace Jeff Fisher.

In a figurative sense, though, it just seems like every clock McVay deals with these days is powered by liquid hydrogen. That might explain how he’s up and at ‘em at the crack of dawn each morning with a specific task to tackle first, only to glance at the clock what seems like a minute or two later and realize it’s already past 8 p.m.

Meanwhile, the thing he set out to finish first went undone.

Yet a million other things he never even accounted for got dealt with.

“You getting pulled in a bunch of different directions,” McVay said, smiling.

It’s one of the big differences he’s noticed since becoming a head coach.

Time isn’t his friend.

And surprises are lurking behind every corner.

“I think you’re just surprised by the reality of, when you sit down to do something at six in the morning and then it’s 8:30 at night and here I am ready to do that thing that I was set out to do at six in the morning,” he said.

Good thing he had the innate sense to construct a coaching staff uniquely skilled to accommodate his new reality.

Tasked with turning around a tortured franchise that hasn’t had a winning season in 13 years, injecting life into an offense for which last rites have been read more than once and developing a second-year quarterback the Rams invested six draft picks into acquiring, McVay has tripled down on the primary skill that landed him the job in the first place.

The offensive-minded and experienced McVay has surrounded himself with more than two decades worth of offensive expertise.

And specifically quarterback development experience.

Which makes sense considering the investment the Rams made in Goff and the importance in developing him into a quarterback worthy of the first pick in the 2016 draft and the face of the Rams franchise.

And the need to lift the offensive to just a respectable level in order to compliment a defense that, truthfully, is playoff caliber.

New offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur was the quarterbacks coach for the Redskins from 2010 to 2013 and Atlanta Falcons the last two seasons.

Quarterbacks coach Greg Olson has held the same position with the 49ers, Bears, Lions, Buccaneers and Jaguars and was the offensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders for two seasons.

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