The Playcallers Ep. 2: When football breaks
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Once candidates for the same head coaching jobs, Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay's dynamic gets complicated as they turn into NFC rivals in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Host Jourdan Rodrigue goes inside how both coaches' modern offenses take shape and the untold stories of McVay's hiring process by the Rams. Eventually, McVay's Rams take the NFL by storm in 2017-18. But all the while, one of the greatest coaches in NFL history is lying in wait to teach McVay a humiliating lesson in Super Bowl LIII...just a couple of years after Shanahan's own Super Bowl heartbreak at the hands of that same veteran coach.
Voices in the episode include McVay, Shanahan, Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, Les Snead, Kevin Demoff, Andrew Whitworth, Mina Kimes and Steve Wyche.
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| 0:42.3 | No. |
| 0:44.4 | Maybe I had anybody ever do that before. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm less than I managed generally to Los Angeles Rams. |
| 0:52.3 | Unfortunately, we could never interview Kyle. |
| 0:56.3 | We had it scheduled. |
| 0:57.6 | Then we got, there was a snowstorm in New England area, so Providence. |
| 1:03.9 | When we interviewed Matt and Josh, Snowstorm hit that part of the country, and we couldn't get to Atlanta. |
| 1:11.3 | And at that point, they were rolling in the playoffs. |
| 1:14.6 | It was 2017. |
| 1:16.3 | The Los Angeles Rams top brass, GM Les Sneed and CEO Kevin Demoff, were on the hunt for their next head coach after a move back to L.A. from St. Louis and a few mediocre to dismal seasons. |
| 1:29.1 | They had also taken a quarterback at number one overall in 2016, Jared Goff, and his rookie season was awful. |
| 1:36.2 | 15 now, short drop by Goff, and the pass is going to be intercepted by Dion Jones, and Dion Jones |
| 1:43.5 | will run it in for the touchdown. |
| 1:45.7 | Goff, nice protection. |
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| 1:49.0 | Now he is an open man and can't hit him. |
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