McVay openly discusses being outsmarted by Belichick in SBLIII

letekro said:

Haha. Of course, some of it may be publicly covering for his young QB. That’s what a good leader would do, and he appears to be a good one.

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I was thinking the same thing - it's probably better for -him- to take that scrunity since he can handle it better than Goff could. Let Goff deal with on-field issues since that's where he needs to get better.

letekro said:

Haha. Of course, some of it may be publicly covering for his young QB. That’s what a good leader would do, and he appears to be a good one.

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I like McVay a lot. No issues with him.

luuked said:

This is one of the keys. On some level the SB is just another game for the Patriots. Of course it feels special but the prep work for it is the same as for every game the team has 2 weeks to work on.

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When the majority of your team has been to multiple SBs, it does make the " act like you've been there before" easier to manage. The bright lights and media circus is less of a distraction....

Well, Bill got outsmarted by Coughlin in SB 42. It happens.

People are underselling how much McVay got outcoached. It's not that he got outsmarted by Belichick in some kind elaborate chess match that went down to the wire - he just ran his generic offense like he did all year, and had no Plan B for when the Patriots did something unexpected on defense to counter it. The fundamental laziness of his approach is still mind-boggling to me.

https://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/analysis/why-the-rams-lost-the-super-bowl

The Rams offense already had the kind of plays the Patriots defense had been bad at defending all year in their playbook. Those plays had worked for the Rams at a good rate when they ran them against other teams, too. This is the most basic thing: run plays your opponent sucked against. THE RAMS HARDLY EVER DID THIS. And the few times they did, it worked - and then they went back to their generic offense and got stuffed on almost every snap again.

If I was a Rams fan I'd be beyond infuriated with this guy. I mean, LA Rams fans barely even exist, but still.

McVay was incredibly negligent as a head coach. He didn't do the most basic self-scouting or examination of the Patriots' strengths and weaknesses. He just decided to do his thing and rely on out-executing the Patriots with a game plan that the Patriots saw coming a mile away, because it was just what they'd done all year before that.

Since you think he's so great Sean-y boy, take a page from BB's book: go bury your SB football out behind the practice field, get back to work, and never speak of it again.

McVay needs to move on. What's done is done. He got outcoached by the best ever. No shame in that. I think the reason the Patriots are successful year in and year out is that they rarely let losses (And wins) linger. It's why they don't lose consecutive games often too.

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maust1013 said:

I think it's fair to say Goff's head was scrambled by BB significantly more than McVay's.

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That’s a tough one to call. They were both more scrambled than the eggs on a cheap brunch buffet.

sean10mm said:

People are underselling how much McVay got outcoached. It's not that he got outsmarted by Belichick in some kind elaborate chess match that went down to the wire - he just ran his generic offense like he did all year, and had no Plan B for when the Patriots did something unexpected on defense to counter it. The fundamental laziness of his approach is still mind-boggling to me.

https://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/analysis/why-the-rams-lost-the-super-bowl

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We will never know for sure but one can be certain that our coaches had a Plan B

SammyBlueCat said:

We will never know for sure but one can be certain that our coaches had a Plan B

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Yeah they must have been on Plan G if McDaniels had to draw that play from scratch on the sideline.

Wheelman said:

Yeah they must have been on Plan G if McDaniels had to draw that play from scratch on the sideline.

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No no. You are referring to plan McD.

This is just pure ego, and marketing genius.

He keeps attention on himself, and continues to build his brand of young, exciting, genius head coach--"look at how brilliantly he handles failure!"--when by all rights the jig should be up.

He got totally embarrassed in the Super Bowl. Nobody should be impressed with this guy anymore, or care what he has to say about anything.

Watch him fade into irrelevance.

Jercules said:

This is just pure ego, and marketing genius.

He keeps attention on himself, and continues to build his brand of young, exciting, genius head coach--"look at how brilliantly he handles failure!"--when by all rights the jig should be up.

He got totally embarrassed in the Super Bowl. Nobody should be impressed with this guy anymore, or care what he has to say about anything.

Watch him fade into irrelevance.

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He and Goff got totally embarrassed on O, but their D did pretty well against us, at least points-wise.

PatsDeb said:

He and Goff got totally embarrassed on O, but their D did pretty well against us, at least points-wise.

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Yup, worst offensive output of the Brady/Belichick SB's:

20
32
24
14
17
28
34
33
13

Hard to believe that they won a SB after scoring less points than they did in SB XLII. MVP should have been someone on defense.

The Brandon Five said:

Yup, worst offensive output of the Brady/Belichick SB's:

20
32
24
14
17
28
34
33
13

Hard to believe that they won a SB after scoring less points than they did in SB XLII. MVP should have been someone on defense.

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I was and am ok with Jules winning MVP. Hard to pick one guy on D that stood out above everyone else. As a unit they were fantastic!