The Playcallers Ep. 4: Blood can blind
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Sean McVay becomes the first coach from this coaching family to win the Super Bowl, but it costs him more personally than he could have realized. Before McVay gets to the championship, he has to exorcise his "Kyle Shanahan demons" in the NFC Championship game. Shanahan and Mike McDaniel built their offense into a versatile, punishing group as McVay's own system centers around the flourish of the passing game. McDaniel, who becomes the Dolphins head coach in 2022, starts stretching his legs after so much time working under Shanahan. Meanwhile, Matt LaFleur's own Packers offense is built around compromise and a Hall of Fame quarterback. In speaking with host Jourdan Rodrigue, each head coach opens up about how play-calling has shaped their identity.
Voices in the episode include McVay, Shanahan, LaFleur, McDaniel, Kevin O'Connell, Zac Taylor, Kevin Demoff, Les Snead, Raheem Morris, Andrew Whitworth, Mina Kimes and Steve Wyche.
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| 0:32.5 | Remember that question that has mirrored the rise of this offensive system? |
| 0:44.2 | In a league where everyone wants credit, how much is owed to the system, or the players, or the play caller? |
| 0:52.9 | Credit is a huge thing. |
| 0:54.6 | Everyone wants the credit for what happened. |
| 0:56.8 | Those guys were constantly pushing each other, whether it was scheme-wise, whether it |
| 1:00.2 | was players, putting guys in the right position to be successful. |
| 1:03.2 | They were all competing every single day. |
| 1:06.3 | Rams head coach Sean McVeigh got his answer in the biggest game of his life. |
| 1:12.1 | For a few moments in Super Bowl 56, his fate was in his players' hands. Both moments happened on the Rams game-winning |
| 1:19.2 | drive. The first was a fourth and one on their own 30-yard line, down by four points with five |
| 1:25.7 | minutes left to play. The Rams went for it. |
| 1:30.8 | Cut. |
| 1:31.9 | He's going to get it. |
| 1:33.4 | And more to the 37. |
| 1:36.0 | The play itself threw it back to memories of McVeigh in his first season with the Rams |
| 1:41.0 | when they just tried things and worked ideas out with players, sometimes |
| 1:45.7 | even mid-drive. The Rams had repped that specific play in practice leading up to the Super Bowl, |
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