Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay talks about being confident in his players' ability to execute on the field, big plays from the Rams' win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, and making the trip to London easier by traveling from Baltimore.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Okay, guys, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know, first of all, awesome being here, you know,
great hosts. This is our third time being in London.
We've had really great experiences, second time playing at Wembley,
and so, you know, really appreciated. I thought the fans,
the atmosphere and environment was awesome. So it was great
to be here and it was great for our guys
to come out and play the way that they did.
I thought we had a really great week of preparation
(00:24):
and I thought it translated. You know, we talk about
practice performance equaling game reality. I thought that came to
life today and I thought everybody was involved. I thought
the defense was outstanding. Got stopped after stop. You know,
they got the one drive a little bit later on.
But I thought we really controlled the game defensively. Six
different guys with sacks, ten different guys on offense with catches.
I thought Matthew did an excellent job, you know, to
(00:46):
be able to lead three touchdown drives with our first
four drives. I know we had a fifth in the
first half where we just kind of were trying to
run the clock out. Had a couple opportunities in the
second half, but then ultimately it was cool to be
able to hit Terence Ferguson for his first touchdown, Devonte
gets three, Matthew he throws for five. I thought Kyroen
ran tough versus you know, a really good run defense,
and you know, I thought the kicking game was solid,
(01:06):
you know, being able to hit all the extra points.
I thought we covered kicks well when we did want
to be able to kick touchbacks. Josh did a nice job.
And I thought Ethan when he did have to punt,
handled that really well. So there's a lot of penalties
that ended up extending drives for us where there were
you know, I thought, you know, the right calls that
DeVante drew a handful of those, and you know, well,
we'll continue to improve, but man, it'll it'll make for
(01:28):
a much more enjoyable flight home. And it's great to
be five and two at the buys.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What do you think, you know, Here's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think it's a tremendous credit to really our players
and their mental toughness and their resolve and their understanding
of a It is a different time clock. Let's not
make it a bigger deal. Let's be ready when the
game kicks off to show up. Let's do everything within
our control, but let's not waste our emotional or mental
energy on things that we can't control.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Here's what we could control.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Great week of preparation in Baltimore, unbelievable hosts the Orioles
were for us. Really had a great week there, and
then we got in late yesterday or we got in
yesterday morning. I thought the guys did a great job
of being able to sleep on the plane. You know,
Reggie did an excellent job of facilitating and understanding of Hey,
what we really tried to make the trip was similar
to what we do in terms of going.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
West to east, which we're very familiar with.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
We got our body clocks adjusted to Baltimore, and it's
a little bit different timetable, but you know, you say
three and a half hour difference when we kicked off at.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Two thirty here.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Don't worry about doing all the math Gary, all right,
but we were just trying to make it a west
coast to east coast trip, and I think the way
the guys played, you know, showed that it was the
right decision. And it's a hats off to those guys,
but I think there's a lot of people behind the
scenes that deserve a ton of credit for making, you know,
a nine day trip, you know, where you pick up
your whole operation and you go somewhere else. The Carter
(02:50):
crutch Fields of the world, the Brendan Berger's, the Dan Demetrisen's.
Obviously Reggie Scott and his group have been instrumental our
ops group. So really grateful, but this will make for
an enjoyable flight.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm proud of our team. Get yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Less, Yeah yeah, I thought, really our guys did a
great job.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I think we ended up being two for two on
those fourth downs. Obviously, the one to Terrence Ferguson was big,
and then the one to Kyron Williams early on in
the game on the fourth down and three was big.
But we came into you know, play to win the game.
We always want to be aggressive, we want to be smart.
I think when you have confidence in your players, it
allows you to be able to do that. And uh,
there was a lot of examples of that. So I thought,
you know, being able to open the game up to
(03:41):
twenty one nothing and then to be able to kind
of just control and slow the second half down a
little bit. But our defense was instrumental. I thought the
offense did a great job. It was a good team win.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm sorry, Can you start from the beginning. Thank you? Yep,
you know it's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think it's such a good reminder for us that
we've got a lot of players that we have a
ton of trust in as coaches, obviously Matthew to be
able to spread the ball around and let the ball
go where the coverage dictates. I think the best offenses
that have been a part of everybody's involved. You can
do either or based on what they're doing. And we've
got a lot of guys that we want to continue
to lean on. Obviously, Puka and DeVante have been the
guys that have kind of led the way for our
(04:25):
past game, but we've got a lot of other guys
that it's a good reminder, even when we lost him
last week of Hey, let's use all of our eligibles.
Let's continue to lean into being a complete offense. You
just so happen to have two, you know, number one
receivers and you want to get them their touches, but
let's also make sure that we get all these other
great players involved. I think it makes you more difficult
to defend, and you know, ultimately it's always a player's game.
(04:46):
I was happy for those guys today. I thought he
was excellent in the tight red area, just being able
to finish some of those throws. He and DeVante obviously
had a great rapport down in there. Thought the fourth down,
you know conversion where he ended up hitting you know,
Terrence Ferguson was awesome. What a great patient route, What
a great job by him. The drama off sides to
(05:08):
even allow us to be able to go for it
where you can elst it a little bit, you know,
some of those defensive structus where they're basically playing zero
with no post player. And then I thought the progression
that he had to be able to get momp his
first touchdown was awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So Matthew was outstanding.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I thought he you know, orchestrated just you know, great
offensive drives. Thought he had some really good throws on
some third downs where we didn't come down with it,
but he was in total command.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
He took great care of the football and that's been
really consistent for the year.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But it was awesome to see him and Davante make
some really tight window catches and convert, you know where
two fades and then kind of a little you know,
like a run alert down there where he ends up
one hand in it, he gets the PI and still
ends up scoring. So Davante was on one today, you know,
and our guys had a good day.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Matthew was excellent.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think the best.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Thing is is that we were able to be pretty
efficient on some early downs where it earned the right
to be able to rush the passer. Our defensive coaches
do such a great job of presenting a variety of
looks that are problematic for offenses. You know, I give
them a ton of credit, and then the players bring
it to life. But that's been a consistent theme with
our group. We want to continue to lean on it,
and you know, really just proud of the coaches and
players and they were they were outstanding today. Yeah, yeah,
(06:30):
I think you just mentioned it. I like being able
to when we've got four legitimate NFL tight ends and
you got them all up and active, well, let's take
advantage of that. Let's let's be able to do some
different things where we're not just in eleven personnel all
the time. We've got guys that are functional on the line,
of scrimmage. They can make plays in the past game,
and so I think we're just continuing to learn, you know,
as the season goes. You know, you might have an
(06:51):
idea of what you think you're going to be, but
it's about utilizing all the personnel that you do have.
And I think this is an exciting thing for us
to be able to build on. You know, we'll have
some time to be able to look at it. Obviously
it's always predicated on the opponent, but you know, it
always starts with us, and you know, I want to
make sure that I do a better job and then
really us collectively of taking advantage of the depth that
we have at some of these different positions so they
(07:12):
can make you a little bit more difficult to defend.
He would wouldn't be man, all right, Very that's a
vet move.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Gary, Ye.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Ladies, yep, yeah, Well it is a lot different than
the last ones.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We were one and four last year.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I know you know that, Gary, thanks for bringing that
back up, man, But we did finish better, all right,
So I want to see us be able to put
it together. I'm really proud of this group, and you know,
I can't think of a time where You've had two
more gut wrenching losses, the way that those unfolded. We
obviously had some good breaks against Indianapolis, but our guys.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I just really love this team.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
There's something about this team where they're the way that
they go to work, the intentionality. You know, it's about
the individuals and you just love each of those individuals
and then how they make up the collective and the
greatest team sport that there is is what we look
at it as.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
There's a lot of great sports.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But football, in my opinion is uh is the greatest
team sport and the answer to to the DeVante thing.
I thought it was great. You know, you get a
lot of those types of coverages. It's tight, sticky, there's
no vertical grass. You got to be able to win
those one on ones. He did that consistently. He was strong.
I think the rapport that they had really throughout the
week ends up translating it was really cool and it
was cool to see how much fun those guys had.
(08:37):
You know, I love watching our group, whether it's our
players and our coaches enjoy themselves.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They earn the right to be able to enjoy it,
and we'll have you know, a fun long flight home too.
That's just talk about how they wanted to get more consistent,
especially so there's how much of a step.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I think it's big, Nate. You know, momentum is a
powerful thing. I think just being able to have it
come to life. You knew that you so much confidence
in these two special players, and then it's really just
about getting on the same page.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Repetition is the mother of learning, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You forget Matthew didn't really get a lot of reps
with Davonte. He was getting a lot of those reps
with Jimmy when he was out with the back. It's
hard to make those things up throughout the course of
the year, but slowly but surely. I think they both
had the great communication. I think there was excellent collaboration
across the board throughout the course of the week, and
I was really happy for them. They brought it to life,
and you know, hopefully we expect more of that as
(09:26):
you know, we finish out this back half of the season.
Thank you guys, great host, appreciate it.
Okay, guys, all right.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know, first of all, awesome being here, you know,
great hosts. This is our third time being in London.
We've had really great experiences, second time playing at Wembley,
and so, you know, really appreciated. I thought the fans,
the atmosphere and environment was awesome. So it was great
to be here and it was great for our guys
to come out and play the way that they did.
I thought we had a really great week of preparation
(00:24):
and I thought it translated. You know, we talk about
practice performance equaling game reality. I thought that came to
life today and I thought everybody was involved. I thought
the defense was outstanding. Got stopped after stop. You know,
they got the one drive a little bit later on.
But I thought we really controlled the game defensively. Six
different guys with sacks, ten different guys on offense with catches.
I thought Matthew did an excellent job, you know, to
(00:46):
be able to lead three touchdown drives with our first
four drives. I know we had a fifth in the
first half where we just kind of were trying to
run the clock out. Had a couple opportunities in the
second half, but then ultimately it was cool to be
able to hit Terence Ferguson for his first touchdown, Devonte
gets three, Matthew he throws for five. I thought Kyroen
ran tough versus you know, a really good run defense,
and you know, I thought the kicking game was solid,
(01:06):
you know, being able to hit all the extra points.
I thought we covered kicks well when we did want
to be able to kick touchbacks. Josh did a nice job.
And I thought Ethan when he did have to punt,
handled that really well. So there's a lot of penalties
that ended up extending drives for us where there were
you know, I thought, you know, the right calls that
DeVante drew a handful of those, and you know, well,
we'll continue to improve, but man, it'll it'll make for
(01:28):
a much more enjoyable flight home. And it's great to
be five and two at the buys.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What do you think, you know, Here's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think it's a tremendous credit to really our players
and their mental toughness and their resolve and their understanding
of a It is a different time clock. Let's not
make it a bigger deal. Let's be ready when the
game kicks off to show up. Let's do everything within
our control, but let's not waste our emotional or mental
energy on things that we can't control.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Here's what we could control.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Great week of preparation in Baltimore, unbelievable hosts the Orioles
were for us. Really had a great week there, and
then we got in late yesterday or we got in
yesterday morning. I thought the guys did a great job
of being able to sleep on the plane. You know,
Reggie did an excellent job of facilitating and understanding of Hey,
what we really tried to make the trip was similar
to what we do in terms of going.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
West to east, which we're very familiar with.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
We got our body clocks adjusted to Baltimore, and it's
a little bit different timetable, but you know, you say
three and a half hour difference when we kicked off at.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Two thirty here.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Don't worry about doing all the math Gary, all right,
but we were just trying to make it a west
coast to east coast trip, and I think the way
the guys played, you know, showed that it was the
right decision. And it's a hats off to those guys,
but I think there's a lot of people behind the
scenes that deserve a ton of credit for making, you know,
a nine day trip, you know, where you pick up
your whole operation and you go somewhere else. The Carter
(02:50):
crutch Fields of the world, the Brendan Berger's, the Dan Demetrisen's.
Obviously Reggie Scott and his group have been instrumental our
ops group. So really grateful, but this will make for
an enjoyable flight.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm proud of our team. Get yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Less, Yeah yeah, I thought, really our guys did a
great job.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I think we ended up being two for two on
those fourth downs. Obviously, the one to Terrence Ferguson was big,
and then the one to Kyron Williams early on in
the game on the fourth down and three was big.
But we came into you know, play to win the game.
We always want to be aggressive, we want to be smart.
I think when you have confidence in your players, it
allows you to be able to do that. And uh,
there was a lot of examples of that. So I thought,
you know, being able to open the game up to
(03:41):
twenty one nothing and then to be able to kind
of just control and slow the second half down a
little bit. But our defense was instrumental. I thought the
offense did a great job. It was a good team win.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm sorry, Can you start from the beginning. Thank you? Yep,
you know it's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think it's such a good reminder for us that
we've got a lot of players that we have a
ton of trust in as coaches, obviously Matthew to be
able to spread the ball around and let the ball
go where the coverage dictates. I think the best offenses
that have been a part of everybody's involved. You can
do either or based on what they're doing. And we've
got a lot of guys that we want to continue
to lean on. Obviously, Puka and DeVante have been the
guys that have kind of led the way for our
(04:25):
past game, but we've got a lot of other guys
that it's a good reminder, even when we lost him
last week of Hey, let's use all of our eligibles.
Let's continue to lean into being a complete offense. You
just so happen to have two, you know, number one
receivers and you want to get them their touches, but
let's also make sure that we get all these other
great players involved. I think it makes you more difficult
to defend, and you know, ultimately it's always a player's game.
(04:46):
I was happy for those guys today. I thought he
was excellent in the tight red area, just being able
to finish some of those throws. He and DeVante obviously
had a great rapport down in there. Thought the fourth down,
you know conversion where he ended up hitting you know,
Terrence Ferguson was awesome. What a great patient route, What
a great job by him. The drama off sides to
(05:08):
even allow us to be able to go for it
where you can elst it a little bit, you know,
some of those defensive structus where they're basically playing zero
with no post player. And then I thought the progression
that he had to be able to get momp his
first touchdown was awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So Matthew was outstanding.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I thought he you know, orchestrated just you know, great
offensive drives. Thought he had some really good throws on
some third downs where we didn't come down with it,
but he was in total command.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
He took great care of the football and that's been
really consistent for the year.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But it was awesome to see him and Davante make
some really tight window catches and convert, you know where
two fades and then kind of a little you know,
like a run alert down there where he ends up
one hand in it, he gets the PI and still
ends up scoring. So Davante was on one today, you know,
and our guys had a good day.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Matthew was excellent.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think the best.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Thing is is that we were able to be pretty
efficient on some early downs where it earned the right
to be able to rush the passer. Our defensive coaches
do such a great job of presenting a variety of
looks that are problematic for offenses. You know, I give
them a ton of credit, and then the players bring
it to life. But that's been a consistent theme with
our group. We want to continue to lean on it,
and you know, really just proud of the coaches and
players and they were they were outstanding today. Yeah, yeah,
(06:30):
I think you just mentioned it. I like being able
to when we've got four legitimate NFL tight ends and
you got them all up and active, well, let's take
advantage of that. Let's let's be able to do some
different things where we're not just in eleven personnel all
the time. We've got guys that are functional on the line,
of scrimmage. They can make plays in the past game,
and so I think we're just continuing to learn, you know,
as the season goes. You know, you might have an
(06:51):
idea of what you think you're going to be, but
it's about utilizing all the personnel that you do have.
And I think this is an exciting thing for us
to be able to build on. You know, we'll have
some time to be able to look at it. Obviously
it's always predicated on the opponent, but you know, it
always starts with us, and you know, I want to
make sure that I do a better job and then
really us collectively of taking advantage of the depth that
we have at some of these different positions so they
(07:12):
can make you a little bit more difficult to defend.
He would wouldn't be man, all right, Very that's a
vet move.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Gary, Ye.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Ladies, yep, yeah, Well it is a lot different than
the last ones.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We were one and four last year.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I know you know that, Gary, thanks for bringing that
back up, man, But we did finish better, all right,
So I want to see us be able to put
it together. I'm really proud of this group, and you know,
I can't think of a time where You've had two
more gut wrenching losses, the way that those unfolded. We
obviously had some good breaks against Indianapolis, but our guys.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I just really love this team.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
There's something about this team where they're the way that
they go to work, the intentionality. You know, it's about
the individuals and you just love each of those individuals
and then how they make up the collective and the
greatest team sport that there is is what we look
at it as.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
There's a lot of great sports.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But football, in my opinion is uh is the greatest
team sport and the answer to to the DeVante thing.
I thought it was great. You know, you get a
lot of those types of coverages. It's tight, sticky, there's
no vertical grass. You got to be able to win
those one on ones. He did that consistently. He was strong.
I think the rapport that they had really throughout the
week ends up translating it was really cool and it
was cool to see how much fun those guys had.
(08:37):
You know, I love watching our group, whether it's our
players and our coaches enjoy themselves.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They earn the right to be able to enjoy it,
and we'll have you know, a fun long flight home too.
That's just talk about how they wanted to get more consistent,
especially so there's how much of a step.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I think it's big, Nate. You know, momentum is a
powerful thing. I think just being able to have it
come to life. You knew that you so much confidence
in these two special players, and then it's really just
about getting on the same page.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Repetition is the mother of learning, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You forget Matthew didn't really get a lot of reps
with Davonte. He was getting a lot of those reps
with Jimmy when he was out with the back. It's
hard to make those things up throughout the course of
the year, but slowly but surely. I think they both
had the great communication. I think there was excellent collaboration
across the board throughout the course of the week, and
I was really happy for them. They brought it to life,
and you know, hopefully we expect more of that as
(09:26):
you know, we finish out this back half of the season.
Thank you guys, great host, appreciate it.
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