The Playcallers Ep. 1: The kids are all right
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Playcallers - a five-part podcast series that explores the innovation, competition and sometimes even self-destruction inside the N.F.L.’s youngest coaching family.
In Episode 1, host Jourdan Rodrigue details the origins of the Shanahan/McVay offensive system, which over time grew into the most popular in the sport. Unique circumstances push Kyle Shanahan to start to evolve this system as he joins up with other young coaches in Tampa Bay, Houston and Washington. A collision of forces, dysfunction and talent culminates in the offensive explosion (and then implosion) in Washington with rookie quarterback Robert Griffin the Third.
Voices in the episode include Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Matt LaFleur, Raheem Morris and Robert Griffin the Third.
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| 0:48.0 | So how do you tie that shit together? |
| 0:49.7 | How do you get the quarterback to it? |
| 0:51.9 | The voice you're hearing belongs to San Francisco 49ers head coach, Kyle Shanahan, |
| 0:57.5 | and he's rolling. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm product of my environment. |
| 1:00.8 | I had to change that shit pretty fast. |
| 1:02.8 | He's in a chair behind his desk. |
| 1:05.2 | And it's not doing a great job of containing him because as he starts to talk about football |
| 1:10.2 | and designing a scheme and calling |
| 1:12.4 | plays and how, in his very strong opinion, all of that is supposed to blend with the players, |
| 1:18.9 | he's practically rattling. |
| 1:21.0 | Not everyone can do everything, but they better be able to do something. |
| 1:23.9 | Whether it's receivers, the quarterbacks, and you keep hammering that stuff and you make |
| 1:27.2 | people defend it when they defend it, where's the other hole in the defense and who has the best trait to attack that hole? And how do you balance them out? Do you have a guy who can find that stuff? If he can't, how do you get him to go through stuff that he'll get to it? Well, then you only put in two plays because it's number one's going to be wide open when it's the right coverage. |
| 1:44.9 | But when it's the wrong coverage, it'll be so covered that number two will be open. And that's what he's going to go to number two. But don't just tell him to go to number two. Don't make him read the coverage. Make him go through a process of how to get them to there. Or you got a guy who can just see everything. Kyle, I always go to number three versus cover three. |
| 1:41.9 | I always go to number one versus cover two. |
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