IN 2017, TAYLOR'S typical in-season Tuesdays included waiting for a text from McVay indicating the list of plays was ready for him. Why? What are we trying to attack on the defense? What part are we trying to attack?' So now as a drawer, I'm like, all right, 'Hey, we're drawing this play. "Why is he calling these pass plays? Because I always knew what they were, but I didn't know why we were calling them. "It's given me a chance to pick Sean 's brain about, all right, what is he thinking?" Kromer said.
Prior to becoming NFL head coaches, Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay were tasked with drawing plays for their respective offensive coaching staffs. Only one of the past four Super Bowls - Super Bowl LV - has not included a coach from this coaching tree. McVay, Shanahan and Taylor, the onetime play-drawers, have combined for four Super Bowl appearances since the 2018 season since becoming head coaches, with McVay winning Super Bowl LVI this past February over Taylor. And it was Shane Waldron, now the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks, who drew plays for McVay.Īnd those coaches have had success. When Shanahan left Washington to be the offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, McVay was named offensive coordinator. McVay drew plays while he was an assistant coach in Washington for Kyle Shanahan, whose San Francisco 49ers host the Rams on Monday Night Football at Levi's Stadium (8:15 p.m. Since McVay was hired in Los Angeles, the coaches who have drawn plays for him include Taylor, Coen, passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach Zac Robinson, Minnesota Vikings quarterbacks coach Chris O'Hara, and now Rams coaches Zak Kromer and K.J. Cooper Kupp off to great start, but Rams' offense still work in progressĭrawing plays - and the conversations that come with it - often also unlocks the key to the intricacies of an offense, and in the case of those who have drawn plays for McVay, it has led to such a high-level knowledge of the offense that it has resulted in a quick rise through the NFL coaching ranks for those assistants.The job can make for long days of meticulously drawing in Visio - starting with the formation, drawing the routes and making sure everything is at the right angle - but leads to more time than a typical assistant would otherwise get from an NFL playcaller. "We've been coordinators at other levels, and so then to go back and kind of do some of the stuff we did as a much younger graduate assistant can be humbling at first, but it's such a great opportunity to kind of reset ourselves."
"To go back and do it again for the Rams - trust me - was humbling for both Liam and I," Taylor said. Taylor, now the coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, did the same task when he was a graduate assistant at Texas A&M.
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Taylor was tasked with taking McVay's play script, typically a printed-out Word document, and using the program Pro Quick Draw to draw out the plays McVay wanted added to the game book. When Zac Taylor was hired by Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay in 2017 to be assistant wide receivers coach, part of the new gig brought him back to his earlier coaching days.
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