Sean McVay and other head coaches describe the art of drawing plays ❌⭕ | NFL Countdown

Sean McVay and other head coaches describe the art of drawing plays ❌⭕ | NFL Countdown

If you take the role seriously, it allows you to be able to understand things about the big picture that you wouldn’t otherwise get exposed to. You’re able to kind of see the genesis of game plans, the genesis of the playbook. Every Tuesday, you can find a Rams offensive assistant, turning head coach Shawn McVeyy’s vision into the weekly game plan. Touchdown. What a call from Shawn McVey. We’ve had a good track record of some guys that have gone on that have been successful drawers and now are really successful coordinators or head coaches. Love you. Love you, brother. Let’s do this. The best in the world. Let’s go. These guys be you. McVey says one of his greatest learning lessons came from a job he had when he was an assistant coach in Washington under offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan in 2010. I remember when I was drawing plays for Kyle Shannon, I got exposure to be able to see how he, you know, looked at the game. Um, hey, why are we doing this or what’s the thought process behind it? It was a great teaching tool for me. Yeah, Sean was awesome. The picture drawer always has the most access to the coordinator, the guy you spend the most time with. TJ Lightning Z. With McVeyy’s rise in the coaching ranks to offensive coordinator and then head coach in 2017, he’s been able to pass on the play drawing baton to coaches on his staff. I started drawing in 2008. I’m just kind of a ride of passion. I think Shane handed off to me when he came to the Rams. I handed off to Liam Cohen. Liam Cohen, I think, handed off to Zach Robinson. So, it was a nice little fraternity we got going there. What was your reaction, Zach, when you found out you’d be doing this role? Depression. Um, at first it’s it’s a lot of long nights, long hours. There’s a lot of pictures to draw. I’d never drawn. I had drawn with a piece of paper and a pen on everything. It’s not easy at first, though. You’re also trying to bring Shawn’s vision to life on a picture. And so, that’s hard to do at times where you don’t want players to ever truly run a route just like it’s drawn and designed on a picture because that’s their creativity. That’s who they are as players. That’s what makes them special. But you would like to be able to bring out some of what you as a coach would like it to look like on the page and that’s a challenge. That’s a little bit of a form of art. Coaches use an architectural program to bring the pictures to life. Last season, Nate Sheiel House held the crucial role of taking McVeyy’s play script to build the week’s offensive schemes, which he turned around overnight. So the starting point would it be after I get the concepts of the week and the formations and the plays that we’re anticipating running. You’ve kind of got this library of files that you have and similarities at least with some of those concepts. You’re opening it up and this week we’re going to specifically run it in this specific formation. So you’re typing out, man, the formation is snug, right? Uh we’re running 11 pop and the defense that we’re planning on getting is over defense playing cover three. Then that’s what the players use after they see the presentation from the offensive coordinator and they build the whole playbook off of that down the right sideline caught by Nua. Touchdown LA. When you think back to drawing plays for Shawn, is there like a moment that comes to mind? There is for sure. It involves Shawn McVey and Matt before. It’s the simplest play known to man. It’s it’s both stick. It’s just two five yard stick routes. And I remember Shawn wanted to draw with a straight stem and then out. And then Matt came back and said, “No, it should be a inside stem, vertical, and out.” So I redrew them all that way. And then Sean said, “What are you doing? I told you it’s straight stem.” So I kind of got back in the middle between Matt and Sean. And I didn’t know who to answer. One’s the office coordinator, one’s the head coach. I remember redrawing the most basic pass known to man way more times than I should have. There’s a lot of worth to it in terms of the amount of detail that goes into it. The amount of also communication as that drawer that you have to be. And so I do believe it’s an important deal. And so uh a lot of respect to the guys that have done it. You got to do a little bit of everything. obviously just kind of gives you a very good foundation on how you’re going to coach the rest of your career. But when you get exposure to these great coaches like Kyle, like Mike Shanahan, I look back and I realized how grateful I was to really be able to see how did they do it and then what’s the best way to be able to mesh all the best parts of them into what, you know, we try to do on a year-to-year and a week- toeek basis. [Applause]

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, Liam Coen, Zac Taylor and others explain the detail that goes into drawing plays.
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