August 7, 2017 • 30 mins
Doug is live from Los Angeles Rams Training Camp! Rams' Head Coach, Sean McVay joined the show to tell Doug how he's prepared for his 1st training camp as head coach. He also reacts to the Dolphin's signing Jay Cutler, saying it made the most sense for the team right now. You can hear that and more on today's Best Of podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. What up, it's a Doug Gottlieb show
Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in America. You are in my
neck of the woods, not just my radio show, but
also my county. We're broadcasting live from Orange County, UC Irvine,
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the soccer fields, site of the Los Angeles Rams second
training camp since moving to SoCal And uh, this is
kind of weird for me. My summers as a kid
were spent just beyond the soccer fields at an old
gym called Crawford Hall. Crawford Hall used to be home
of the U c Irvine ant Eater basketball program. They've
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since opened the Brent Center years ago. I was actually
there for opening night at the Brand Center. Anyway, I
spent most of my summer's being the youngest guy at
Bill Mulligan's basketball camps. I also spent most of my
falls watching the l A Rams play at Anaheim Stadium,
Big A as Eric Dickerson and um, you know you
you you pick the former Ram even back to when
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Kevin Green was there late in the Rams run watching
the Rams play. Now I'm watching the Rams practice at
a place during the summer to which I used to
call my kind of summer home. So we're gonna have
a great morning for you. Rams right now going through
a walk through practice. No uh no, no, uh, hats
and shells, but they are. They got two fields going,
and we're gonna bring over Sean McVeigh. We're gonna bring
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over Todd Gurley, We're gonna bring over alec Ogletree. Uh.
They will be joining us throughout the broadcast. So The
Duck Gotlip Show is broadcasting live from the road from
RAMS camp later on this week, actually, I believe it's Thursday.
We're gonna be a Cowboys camp, which is in Oxnard, California.
The only thing you need to know about in terms
of directionally, Oxnard is basically the opposite side of Los
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Angeles from where Irvine is right and Oxnard ironically is
much closer to the rams actual home where they actually
have their facilities, only they come down here for practice.
And I think there's a sensible reason why this is
a base for people like me, people who grew up
as Rams fans, in a way to engage those fans
and to come out and go to practice and then
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get him to go to the Coliseum, which is in
downtown Los Angeles, and eventually the new Stadium, which is
being built right near the site of the old Forum
where the Lakers used to play centrally located. So you
got your fans in the valley and in Thousand Oaks
where the Rams call home, and you get the fans
in Orange County. This is a way to engage both sides.
Kind of makes sense from a marketing perspective. And we'll
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bring in Sean McVeigh, the youngest head coach in the NFL.
He'll join us later on in the show, as will
Todd Gurley, as will Alcohogo tree Um. But the topic
of the day is not actually the Rams, but it
is a quarterback where which was all the discussion about
the Rams last year and will be this year as
they try and figure out if Jared Goff is the
dude that they want him to be think he can be,
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as he was drafted number one overall in last year's
NFL draft. The topic of the day is Jay Cutler,
And you look, there are many people who I respect,
but sometimes they're bad at their jobs, and by bad
at their jobs, they act like what we're seeing with
Jay Cutler going to the Dolphins. We have never seen before,
but we saw it before. We saw it just last year.
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And it's actually our job as sports radio host, personalities
NFL people to give you that perspective, to let you
understand this is exactly what happens. Almost every year. Guy
goes down, coach reaches out to guy he has a
relationship with because he knows the system, he knows his ceiling,
he knows his floor. We talked about it last week,
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the Rabbi in the room. But if you don't think
this has happened, go back and look at last year.
Right Teddy Bridgewater was going into his his what the
third year, second year of starting quarterback was the third year,
third year starting quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings. During the
first snap, for the first snap of the last preseason,
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just at their training facility, with no helmet, no shoulder pads,
he plants and his leg nearly falls off. Just a
devastating injury. There are reports that players are crying, some
players are sick. It was nasty. He's still on the
pup list. This you remember. You also must remember that
Sam Bradford was then the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles.
But if I have to jog your memory, it was
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it was kind of similar to the Glennon situation in
Chicago now where they resigned Sam Bradford new regime, but
resigned sam Bradford to thirteen million dollar contract. He then
complained not about the money, but about the fact that
on Draft Day the Philadelphia Eagles moved around some pieces
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and traded for the rights to get Carson Wentz, drafting
a number one overall pick in the draft. The reason
that he complained, as I told people then and I
will tell people now, is it's not necessarily about the
money as much as about the opportunity. And sam Bradford
re signed, yeah, for thirteen million dollars. But he wanted
to start, and he wanted to start in a place
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to which he had been a couple of years. He
knew the players, they knew him, he knew the culture
of the place, and though it was a new head
coach in the new system, he had a much greater
tie to that to that team. He was obviously a
little bit unhappy he was granted new life. He went
to the Minnesota Vikings at the exact same time or
the Isaac same time of year that had happened. We
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had a similarly visceral reaction to Sam Bradford being traded
a first round traff pick. You traded away way too
much to Sam Bradford. He's not any good. Why would
you make this move. It's too much money. You can
go get any guy off the street to be as
good as Sam Bradford. And even though the Minnesota Vikings
didn't make the playoffs, Even as though the Minnesota Vikings
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season last year was a wild disappointment considering how they started,
the blame cannot be rest on Sam Bradfor a matter
of fact, they really like him in Minnesota. They do.
I actually had the highest complacent percentage in the history
of the National Football League. Some of that was he
had no offensive line last year, so who had to
get rid of it super super quickly. But Sam Bradford
is a solid starting quarterback in the NFL. Is he
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as good as his rookie contract? No? Is he the
a top ten quarterback? No, But he's a lot better
than you think, especially in NFL personnel people's mind. And
the reason they reached out to Sam Bradford was because
he had a rabbi in the room, right Uh, it
was I get my Shermer's confused because there's multiple It's
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Pat Shermer. There used to be Fritz Shermer. Pat Shermer
was his offensive coordinator his first year in the NFL
with the St. Louis Rams. All comes back to the Rams,
see what we did there? And then Pat Shermer got
the head coaching job with the Cleveland Browns that lasted
all of a year. Then he bounced around the NFL.
Then Pat Schremer was with him in Philadelphia when they
traded for him, and he was in Minnesota and when
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Teddy Bridgewater's leg nearly fell off when he suffered they
they got into a room and they're like, all right,
what are we gonna do? And Prat Schremers like, you
know who wants out? You know who does make a
crazy amount of money, And it's a pretty good co
uarterback is a really good guy and he's better than
people think. I think Sam Bradford's that guy. That's what
happened today. Don't make it about Kaepernick, Don't make it
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about the leak story that they threw around Tebow. Look,
Tebow is just you ever have one of those brainstorming
sessions right where you have the white board and somebody goes,
all right, there's no such thing as a bad idea, right,
and somebody yells out, all right, let's call it eyes
marsh You're like, okay, that's a that's that's stretch where
we are in terms of our scientific development. But I'm
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gonna put it on the board just to have it
on the board. That's what Tebow is, right. You're in Florida,
You're looking for guys that are in shape that can
come in and give you something different, and somebody yelled
out Tebow in the back of the room, and you
wrote it on the board. It didn't mean you took
it seriously, but you did enter the discussion saying there
are no such thing as a bad idea. It's a
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bad idea, but you can't say it's such a thing
as a bad idea. What happened with Jake Cutler officially
signing with the Miami Dolphins was nothing more than exactly
what happened with the Minnesota Vikings last year. They need
a guy, and you know what, he's a lot better
than people fans will lead you to believe, and the guys,
especially when the head coach knows exactly who he is,
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exactly what he's about. He does have armed talent, and
the and the Miami Dolphins are probably thinking themselves, Hey,
you know what, we made the playoffs last year with
Matt Moore's our quarterback. We made the playoffs last year
with Ryan Tannehill as our quarterback. Jay Cutler in his
best day in our system is frankly better than Matt,
more better than Ryan tan Hill. And if he's equally
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as good and Jgi didn't have a concussion last week,
Jgi recovers they have a good running game. If the
nothing comes of this Jarvis lanjury um domestic assault allegation
that his girlfriend, the mother of his baby, said was nothing.
Jarvis Landry actually has I believe, the exact same number
of catches as his best friend Odell Beckham Jr. They
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have a superstar young wide receiver, They have offensive talent.
If they can stop anybody at all, I think it
makes sense. And oh yeah, by the way, what's being
reported as ten you know, a ten million dollar deal,
your contract. If he hits every bonus that he makes
ten million dollars, he's a starting quarterback in the NFL.
That's a bargain basement price. Going rate for a starting
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quarterback in the NFL is in the mid teens up
to twenty million dollars. That was the argument that Ryan
Fitzpatrick made last year when he held out. So if
you're arguing about the money, you don't understand the market.
If you're arguing about Jay Cutler as opposed to Colin Kaepernick,
you don't understand the sport, or you don't understand business.
And if you're saying we haven't seen anything like this before,
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you're not paying any attention Historically. We just saw it
last year. Here's here's Jay Cutler, who was on the Herd.
One of the great tenures in the history of Fox
Sports with Jay Cutler as an NFL analyst, I thought
he was outstanding here. Talking one in a new team
is always really hard, especially like you said, learning a
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new offense, learned the players, the coaches, dials like to
play aft Here with Adam and the Dolphins, it's one
of those situations where a few of those parameters are
kind of taken out because I know Adam, I know
how he likes to call games, I know how he
likes to operate, and and I know the system. Here's
why he decided to come out of retirement. He had
to be a perfect situation. And I think this is
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this is one of those situations where everything kind of
fell into place, like you're saying, and you know, the
timing was right, the personnel was right, the coach was right. Um,
you know, I was in the situation of my life
that uh, you know, my wife kind of allowed me
to to leave and do these type of things, so it, uh,
it worked out well. Here's Adam Gays, head coach of
the Dolphins, on if Cutler will have to earn a
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starting spot, maintain announcement right now. And he didn't come
out of retirement to stay on the sideline, but you
got ways to go get him in here too. Physical
kind of see where he's at. I love that he
didn't come out of retirements in the side line. It's
a great line. H feel bad for Matt Moore, but
that that's kind of life of the backup quarterback, right.
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You always got to be ready. You're never going to
truly get the respect you may well desert may well
have earned. But Jake Cutler's in Miami. Don't act like
we haven't seen this and don't act like it's anything
more than what the NFL does on a yearly basis.
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The thing about the Hall of Fame speeches is like,
I know, I know, it's the last time we're ever
going to mention the name Kenny Easily. I get it,
Like you'll they'll stand up there, Jason Taylor. It's such
a good looking human being, right, and he's and he
has a kind of unique look to him and like
a striking looking athlete that for the rest of the
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Hall of Fame ceremonies and you're like, oh, that's Jason Taylor.
Like Kenny Easily, just kind of a regular looking guy.
And I like Kenny. You think U c l A.
And when he's with the Seahawks back in the day. Um,
I'm not saying he was a bad player or not
a memorable player, but he's not a memorable personality, doesn't
have a memorable face. He's not some giant to which
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he he hops off the screen at you. The point
is it's probably the last well, ever, here if Kenny easily,
but like dude, when you're the first guy, you can't
go over twenty minutes, and Jason Taylor, when you're the
second guy, you can't go thirty minutes. You just can't.
And as much as they the opposite, the intended effect
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of mentioning every person I want you guys to all
stand up and I'm gonna go one by one and
tell you how awesome you are. The intended effect is
to give every person a moment to which they can uh,
they can feel the respect that you've earned by getting
your bust. But that's not what the moment is about. Look,
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I mean even Kurt Warner stood up there and he
he made here to point out Trent Green and said
that Trent Green, this could easily this could just as
easily been you and you not gotten hurt, which is
I mean again, that's who's day. And Thomas is a
great These are good human beings, but listen tonight, it's
not necessarily about being good human beings. Just pick one story,
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start them with a joke, make it self deprecating. Talk
about your life in football. How much football means do you?
How much it means to be there and then thank
you to everyone, and it's scrolling down underneath you. The
NFL network tried to help you and scroll those names
underneath you. It was completely and utterly unwatchable. Make the
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idea is to get you to watch all of these men,
to have the stories told, and have them told so
that you understand why they're being recognized. But because they
just cannot abide by a simple shot clock, it was.
It was an awful watch off the watch right and um,
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you know, and then you have people scolding on social media,
scolding fans for leaving early, like dude, you're an hour in,
two players into the night, check please right, Like I
got a sinner, I gotta get home enough I can,
I'll watch it on TV. It's like one of these
like now I just can't. I have no desire whatso
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I struggle with banquets anyway, And I'll struggle banquets like yeah, right,
like I lived through the season. I don't have to
have retold him in I mean really, so, I mean,
give me give me a short video, you know, even
the video it's I had a friend. I won't I
won't sell him out. I won't mention his name, but
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he was a keynote speaker at a tip off banquet
for one of the big East schools, and they said like, hey,
we need like a minute and a half, you know,
a minute to minut and a half intro about who
you are, some video like oh, I got it. And
he said it was like a tw all minute highlight tape.
And we're like, dude, like that, that's the night, isn't
about you? Now? These nights were about them, but not
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that much about them. Share the ball abide by a
shock clock. You almost feel like, can we start the
music like they do at the Academy Awards. Because that
was a rough watch. I don't know anybody's like that.
Oh that was a good watch. I really, I really
really enjoyed it. That was amazing. No one I know
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you Live from l a Rams training camp. And as
I was telling you all, and I was about to
tell Sean McVeigh, the new head coach of the Rams,
it's one thing to grow up in Orange County. I
grew up in Orange County, but I actually grew up
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going to basketball camp at Crawford Hall, which uh is,
I don't know. If I could hit a driver straight,
I could hit the hit a driver and hit Crawford Hall,
which is you Servine's old bass ball Jim. They used
to have a coach named Bill Mulligan. He had Scott Brooks,
he had Todd Thornton, he had Todd Murphy, he had
plenty of guys that played in the NBA. And my
dad was an assistant Long Beach State and basketball but
used to send me here for for basketball camp, among
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other places. So this is a place very familiar to me,
but unfamiliar to Sean McVeigh who joins us. What to
take me through? First, the first meeting you had with
the team, right, like, look, your whole life, your football guy,
and this is your dream opportunity. You're not your four
years old, youngest head coach in the NFL, So you
know you're gonna talk to the team for the first time.
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You talked to players, You've talked to the media, but
the first time you meet with a group of ninety
men preparing for your first training camp. How'd you prepare
for that? Well, I think the biggest thing is is
that you've got a great coaching staff that you can
kind of lean on as we figure out, you know,
the kind of culture that we want to establish and maintain.
And that was something that we collectively kind of decided
on and and that message that we wanted to be
able to kind of deliver to the players. And then ultimately,
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they're the ones that drive the bus and make the
message go and and that's the thing that we wanted
to echo to them is to expect and you know,
ultimately we talk about it's always about the team, and
you know, as long as we're able to stay connected
and continue to do the little things the right way, uh,
we'll give ourselves a chance. And but did you like
practice it in your hotel room? Did you write out notes?
Did you in your mind go like, I want to
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get the m back of the team, the team, the team, Like, well,
you know, it's it's a good question. I think it's
definitely something that you know, you practice a little bit
because you want to make sure that you know it's authentic,
but you also want to make sure that you stay
kind of in alignment and within the structure of what
you wanted to get uh delivered to the players. So
definitely practiced, actually practice a couple of things I was
gonna say on my girlfriend the night before, and uh,
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it ended up being a lot of the same things
that that you talk about in the interview with you know,
with Kevin dem off Less Need and Tony Pastors, and
there are things that, uh, you really firmly believe in
because you've been around some great mentors and coaches and
you've seen what you think it looks like when it's right.
But then you also want to put your own spin
on it and what you think fits our team for
our players. And we feel like we're we're on the
right track right now and ultimately that will be decided
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when we get into the games. When you have the interview,
did you feel like you killed it? You know? I
felt like it was a good dynamic that we have,
you know, I I think you know, any time that
you sit down with somebody, you kind of know if
it's a natural rapport or not. And I think it
felt very comfortable and got an opportunity to sit down
with Jared the first time that I was there as
well where you talk to him. You watch a little
bit of tape and it seemed like, you know, our
core beliefs in terms of talking with Kevin talking with
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less our core beliefs in terms of how we wanted
to have things structured out. We're very much in alignment.
And I think any time that you're able to share
those things with the upper level management, you feel good
about the direction that you're going in. So often times
guys to get their first job get the worst job
in the league, right, Like, you didn't take a job,
you gotta gotta take a Cleveland at their bottom, or
Kyle Shanahan gets against San Francisco ton of draft picks,
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but it's at the bottom. That's not really the case here, Like,
this is a team that had thoughts that they could
maybe be a playoff team over the past couple of years.
The defense, uh, the running game, like all of those things.
You know people would kill for some of the pieces
on this team. So you have to feel like, wow,
this is a better opportunity to maybe even you thought
you could get initially. Yeah, No, I think that's I
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think that's a great way of putting it. Because there's
been a lot of really good core players in place
at those key spots that you feel like you can
build around. Uh. They've been successful on the defensive side
of the ball for the last handful of year special
teams as well. And I think when you look at offensively,
some of the core guys, you know, you look at
it Todd Gurley at running back, you look at what
Tavon Austin has done over the course of his career,
Jared Goff going into his second year, and then you're
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able to bring in guys like Robert Woods and Andrew
Whitworth and what he's meant to our line up front,
a veteran, and John Sullivan. So I think, you know,
we're continuing to find that mix, and you know, we've
got some young tight ends with Tyler Higbee and Gerald
Everts starting to emerge. So there's some pieces that we're
excited about these guys and they've done a nice job
up to this point and can't wait to see them,
you know, get a chance to compete in preseason games
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and then when it gets going against Indie. And probably
the biggest addition you made is defensive coordinator, bringing Wade Phillips,
who I know there's several teams around the NFL that
wanted him to come run their defense, and he decided
to work with you. How did you How did you
make how did you make that happen? Because I talked
to two different NFL people like we wanted Wade Phillips
and the Rams got him. How did you do it? Well?
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I'll tell you what was fortunate is that his daughter
lives out in l a very important you know, family
is very important to coach Wade, and I got a
chance to work with his son, West Phillips the last
handful of years in Washington. He's one of my closest
friends in coaching. So I have kind of gotten to
know Wade a little bit closer than maybe you would be,
just kind of knowing him in respecting his career from AFAR,
and I think, you know, you look at some of
the players that we had in place, I think it
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was exciting for him to get a chance to work
with some of the guys on the defensive side of
the football. And I think one of the things that
makes coach Wait a great coach is the fact that
he's able to bring out the best in those players.
You know, you look at all the great players that
he's been able to coach, and it seems like they
have their highest level of production when they're playing under him,
and I think that's a credit to his system and
the way that he teaches and coaches. You've been unbelievable
with the offense. You look what you did last year
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in d C with Kirk Cousins. Everyone knows that you're
gonna put your own kind of personal spin on the
offensive side of the ball. Everyone respects what he can
do on the defensive side of the the ball. I think
the in question that a lot of NFL people have
when I watch some of these shows and talk to
them is how much is he actually gonna have to
do with the defense? And can you be the head
coach and CEO of the team when you spend a
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ton of time with the offense, how are you going
to split up your time and you're focusing on game.
That's a good question, and I think when you look
at it, you know, just looking at being more involved
in the on the offensive side of the ball with
defensive leaders and special teams leaders with the Wade Phillips
and Joe Barry on defense and then special teams coordinator
John fossil. You feel very comfortable that Really I look
at as a unique opportunity to exit in their meetings
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and learn from them. And then from a defensive standpoint,
you know that the you know, the contribution that you
can make is by learning the defense. How would we
attack that and kind of trying to show them some
of the problem plays that we run offensively and just
force that communication and those adjustments and give them that perspective.
But certainly you're not going to tell coach Wade what
to do. You're gonna discuss things. And he's been so
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great to work with, and he's you know, really not
pushing any information on me, but so willing to share
and help give advice. You know, when I go to
him and um, you know, he's obviously got a lot
of experience to pull from and it's a blessing to
have him. Um. You know, so much of of what
you do or how your view perception, even if it's
not reality, is how you start and a lot of
that is also luck. Um. Speaking of Luck, I don't
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know if you've noticed, but Andrew Luck is not throwing
a football right now. That's your home opener. I mean again,
like in the everything that could have gone wrong went
wrong last year for the team. It feels like some
of the things are kind of working in your favorite
you even pay attention to that stuff. Yet, well, certainly,
you know, you flip on NFL Network, you're gonna be
mindful of of seeing that that Andrew hasn't practiced yet
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and that you know, they're saying it's possibility that he
might not be ready for the opener. But right now,
what I think our guys have done a great job
on is just kind of focusing on our daily improvement
that's implementing our systems. You know, we're about seven days
into our installs, where you know, you're really kind of
just starting to wrap it up, where you're getting to
your short yardage and your goal line. We've pretty much
hit all the other situations, and then it's gonna be
going back and making sure that we just kind of
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polish it up and there's an ownership from our players,
and then once we get closer to it, you start
the game plan and really focus on how we would
want to attack the Colts or whoever it is that
we're playing. But right now, I think the guys have
done a great job focusing on you know, our process
and that's just that daily improvement. Sean McVeigh, head coach
of the Rams, joining us. We're live at Rams camp
here in the Doug Otlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Um, you,
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I like to ask coaches all the time, like how
are you? Are you any good? It's really hard to
know if you're any good. So I guess the easiest
comparison is take last year's Redskins team seven days in
and you had cousins had been in the league longer.
But in comparison to install feel like, where are you
guys in comparison to last year's Redskins team where you
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had a quarterback that you didn't have a good as
good running back, but you had a quarterback through four
nine yards. I mean, you had a really good offense
last year. Where are you this year to last year? Well?
I think the biggest thing is is, you know, anytime
you look at good coaches, I think what they do
is is they find a way to get the most
out of their players and they adjust their personnel. And
you know, certainly we felt very fortunate and Washington have
a lot of great playmakers and we were able to
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spread it around on the perimeter, through the air with
you know, some of the weapons that we did have.
And you know, what I think is unique about this
opportunity is we're continuing to figure out what Jared's capable
of and kind of how to accentuate and maximize his
skill set, making sure that we're mindful of getting a
special running back and Todd Gurley involved, and figuring out
how the tight end and receiver positions play out with
how we want to distribute their touches. So I think
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that's something that we're figuring out as we go. You know,
you always have kind of a core installation in place,
but in terms of how as a play caller you
call the game what you want to maximize, because ultimately
it's about winning the football game and playing to the
team's strengths. And I think each team, you know, and
based on who your players are, will dictate a different
way you want to attack people. And um, I definitely
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think having some continuity at that quarterback spot enabled us,
you know, with Kirk from year one to year two
as a starter, do a little bit more, and that's
what we're hopeful for with Jared from just going from
his rookie year to the second year and then the
following year, having his second year in the system, we
expect to see that type of improvement as well. Is
there any way to um not worry about you're not
necessarily worry about or or eliminate the subconscious of your youth? Right? Like,
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you're a young guy. You want to prove yourself, but
you know you can't try and prove yourself because then,
you know, then it ends up compounding the problem. So
how do you you know, I obviously winning cares you
win and nobody nobody's gonna care. But how do you
handle that in preparing for those moments of turbulence which
you're undoubtedly gonna have. You have to cut somebody with,
you have to discipline somebody. How do you set it
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up as the youngest head coach in the league? Well,
I think, Doug, the biggest thing for us is any
time that you're in a situation like this, it always
starts with building and developing relationships. And then as long
as we're able to deal with whether it's people players,
with open and clear and honest communication, and then they
see that we're invested in them to try to help them,
and we can help them become better players by what
we're coaching them. You know, that's when I think you
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get the mutual respect in the buying and so so,
like in building, are you constantly text? Are you on
group text with them? Are you are you calling them
an individually? Like? How do you separate yourself in terms
of trying to create that relationship. I think it's just
being approachable, you know in the locker room, you know,
going up and talking to guys. It might be about football,
it might be about their families, you know, but you know,
whether it's at dinner or something like that, where you know,
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it's something that you just kind of make a point
to spend some time with these guys and and get
to know them, and and they can just see that, hey,
you know he's a coach, but you know, it cares
about me as a human being. And I think that's
the kind of coaching staff that we have. And then
if you're able to give them the right things to
help give them the tools on the practice field during
games to be able to have success, that's where I
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think that mutual respect occurs and you get that buy
in and that's what we're hoping to do. Well, I know,
it's gonna be pretty cool moment. I know it's not
an official game, but to coach your first game and
to coach it against the Dallas Cowboys, yeah, it's pretty cool.
It is even the other day when we go over
to Stubbhub to practice against the Chargers. It was a
great turnout and good competitive practice on both sides. But
you know, it starts to set in what a great
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and unique opportunity it is to to be a head
coach in the NFL and and it's something that's that's
humbling and very excited about the challenge, you know, doing
this with everybody. One of thirty two. That's that's awesome,
one of thirty two. And you get the Cowboys this weekend,
you open the season with the with the Colts, and
of course the big weekend for the Rams community getting
Kurt Warner into that Pro Football Hall of Fame. Will coach,
We wish you nothing but the best. Look forward to
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catching up in the very near future. Off air, and
thanks so much for joining us. Thanks appreciate you having that.
Sean McVeigh, the new head coach of your l A Rams.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Doug Gott
Leaves Show weekdays at three pm Easter noon Pacific. Let's
play what did the Fox say? No say? All right,
so there's been a nice little healthy back and forth.
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If you remember back last week, we've played this for you.
This is Joel Clatt, who Claud lives right down the street.
He's not here. Why don't we get Clapp the rams?
Can we still get him? Last hour? I get him
out of his get him out of this is Pj's
and have him drive up here and we can do
in person Joel Clad, he can talk about Jared Goff
and if he likes Jeared golf. Anyway, Joel Clad said
this about Notre Dame football. All you have to do
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is go to the US News top thirty universities in
our country. Of the top thirty well schools play Power
five football, eight of them had a better record than
Notre Dame last year. So stop telling me Notre Dame
people that academics are preventing you from being good. Uh.
This is Brady Quinn over the weekend, former Notre Dame
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quarterback defending the virtues of his alma mater. A lot
of people think that, you know, schools will just kind
of tend to, you know, allow anyone in. You know,
if they're good enough, they'll make an exception. They'll find
a way. Here's the issue. A lot of your higher
academic schools, even if they could make an exception for
some players and recruits, which they can and they do,
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those guys won't survive. A couple of guys I got
kicked out because they got caught cheating, and they didn't
get kicked out by the n C double A. They
got kicked out by Notre Dame because that's their stance,
and it show goes to show you that they were
just trying to survive there. The workload is so intense,
your time is so scarce because of football and academics
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and the amount that they put on you that it's
easy to say that when your Joel Klatt and you
want to somewhere like Colorado. And again I'm not trying
to degrade Colorado, but I can tell you the admission
standards into Notre Dame are much greater than what he
ever experienced. I would look, I would actually agree I
went to Notre Dame. I obviously people know about my
history Notre Dame. I think here's the thing. Some school.
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Stanford is really hard to get into, but no one
flunks out. There are other schools cal Berkeley, not as hard.
They actually they have relaxed admission standards for athletes, but
it's harder sometimes to stay in school there. Notre Dame,
by my estimation, is both hard to get into and
hard to stay in. And they actually do have an
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honor code and they do abide by that honor code.
Uh so, and and picking out final record is is
lame right. Notre Dame plays a legit schedule almost every year. Um.
They don't have many granted that play the the the
military academies, but those that's those school's biggest games, and
they usually give them a hell of a game. Um.
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I think it is it is harder to get it
done at the highest level at Notre Dame than most places.
Stanford obviously is screwing up that whole mantra because it's
very hard to get into Stanford, and you do have
to carry a substantial academic load and there aren't major
that you can hide in the one differences at Stanford,
and their professors are kind of all in on. Nobody
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flunks out, and they don't have the kind of people
that flunk out that that's what the Fox said, say
This is the best of the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. What up, it's a Doug Gottlieb show
Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in America. You are in my
neck of the woods, not just my radio show, but
also my county. We're broadcasting live from Orange County, UC Irvine,
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the soccer fields, site of the Los Angeles Rams second
training camp since moving to SoCal And uh, this is
kind of weird for me. My summers as a kid
were spent just beyond the soccer fields at an old
gym called Crawford Hall. Crawford Hall used to be home
of the U c Irvine ant Eater basketball program. They've
(00:44):
since opened the Brent Center years ago. I was actually
there for opening night at the Brand Center. Anyway, I
spent most of my summer's being the youngest guy at
Bill Mulligan's basketball camps. I also spent most of my
falls watching the l A Rams play at Anaheim Stadium,
Big A as Eric Dickerson and um, you know you
you you pick the former Ram even back to when
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Kevin Green was there late in the Rams run watching
the Rams play. Now I'm watching the Rams practice at
a place during the summer to which I used to
call my kind of summer home. So we're gonna have
a great morning for you. Rams right now going through
a walk through practice. No uh no, no, uh, hats
and shells, but they are. They got two fields going,
and we're gonna bring over Sean McVeigh. We're gonna bring
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over Todd Gurley, We're gonna bring over alec Ogletree. Uh.
They will be joining us throughout the broadcast. So The
Duck Gotlip Show is broadcasting live from the road from
RAMS camp later on this week, actually, I believe it's Thursday.
We're gonna be a Cowboys camp, which is in Oxnard, California.
The only thing you need to know about in terms
of directionally, Oxnard is basically the opposite side of Los
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Angeles from where Irvine is right and Oxnard ironically is
much closer to the rams actual home where they actually
have their facilities, only they come down here for practice.
And I think there's a sensible reason why this is
a base for people like me, people who grew up
as Rams fans, in a way to engage those fans
and to come out and go to practice and then
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get him to go to the Coliseum, which is in
downtown Los Angeles, and eventually the new Stadium, which is
being built right near the site of the old Forum
where the Lakers used to play centrally located. So you
got your fans in the valley and in Thousand Oaks
where the Rams call home, and you get the fans
in Orange County. This is a way to engage both sides.
Kind of makes sense from a marketing perspective. And we'll
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bring in Sean McVeigh, the youngest head coach in the NFL.
He'll join us later on in the show, as will
Todd Gurley, as will Alcohogo tree Um. But the topic
of the day is not actually the Rams, but it
is a quarterback where which was all the discussion about
the Rams last year and will be this year as
they try and figure out if Jared Goff is the
dude that they want him to be think he can be,
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as he was drafted number one overall in last year's
NFL draft. The topic of the day is Jay Cutler,
And you look, there are many people who I respect,
but sometimes they're bad at their jobs, and by bad
at their jobs, they act like what we're seeing with
Jay Cutler going to the Dolphins. We have never seen before,
but we saw it before. We saw it just last year.
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And it's actually our job as sports radio host, personalities
NFL people to give you that perspective, to let you
understand this is exactly what happens. Almost every year. Guy
goes down, coach reaches out to guy he has a
relationship with because he knows the system, he knows his ceiling,
he knows his floor. We talked about it last week,
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the Rabbi in the room. But if you don't think
this has happened, go back and look at last year.
Right Teddy Bridgewater was going into his his what the
third year, second year of starting quarterback was the third year,
third year starting quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings. During the
first snap, for the first snap of the last preseason,
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just at their training facility, with no helmet, no shoulder pads,
he plants and his leg nearly falls off. Just a
devastating injury. There are reports that players are crying, some
players are sick. It was nasty. He's still on the
pup list. This you remember. You also must remember that
Sam Bradford was then the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles.
But if I have to jog your memory, it was
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it was kind of similar to the Glennon situation in
Chicago now where they resigned Sam Bradford new regime, but
resigned sam Bradford to thirteen million dollar contract. He then
complained not about the money, but about the fact that
on Draft Day the Philadelphia Eagles moved around some pieces
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and traded for the rights to get Carson Wentz, drafting
a number one overall pick in the draft. The reason
that he complained, as I told people then and I
will tell people now, is it's not necessarily about the
money as much as about the opportunity. And sam Bradford
re signed, yeah, for thirteen million dollars. But he wanted
to start, and he wanted to start in a place
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to which he had been a couple of years. He
knew the players, they knew him, he knew the culture
of the place, and though it was a new head
coach in the new system, he had a much greater
tie to that to that team. He was obviously a
little bit unhappy he was granted new life. He went
to the Minnesota Vikings at the exact same time or
the Isaac same time of year that had happened. We
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had a similarly visceral reaction to Sam Bradford being traded
a first round traff pick. You traded away way too
much to Sam Bradford. He's not any good. Why would
you make this move. It's too much money. You can
go get any guy off the street to be as
good as Sam Bradford. And even though the Minnesota Vikings
didn't make the playoffs, Even as though the Minnesota Vikings
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season last year was a wild disappointment considering how they started,
the blame cannot be rest on Sam Bradfor a matter
of fact, they really like him in Minnesota. They do.
I actually had the highest complacent percentage in the history
of the National Football League. Some of that was he
had no offensive line last year, so who had to
get rid of it super super quickly. But Sam Bradford
is a solid starting quarterback in the NFL. Is he
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as good as his rookie contract? No? Is he the
a top ten quarterback? No, But he's a lot better
than you think, especially in NFL personnel people's mind. And
the reason they reached out to Sam Bradford was because
he had a rabbi in the room, right Uh, it
was I get my Shermer's confused because there's multiple It's
(06:28):
Pat Shermer. There used to be Fritz Shermer. Pat Shermer
was his offensive coordinator his first year in the NFL
with the St. Louis Rams. All comes back to the Rams,
see what we did there? And then Pat Shermer got
the head coaching job with the Cleveland Browns that lasted
all of a year. Then he bounced around the NFL.
Then Pat Schremer was with him in Philadelphia when they
traded for him, and he was in Minnesota and when
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Teddy Bridgewater's leg nearly fell off when he suffered they
they got into a room and they're like, all right,
what are we gonna do? And Prat Schremers like, you
know who wants out? You know who does make a
crazy amount of money, And it's a pretty good co
uarterback is a really good guy and he's better than
people think. I think Sam Bradford's that guy. That's what
happened today. Don't make it about Kaepernick, Don't make it
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about the leak story that they threw around Tebow. Look,
Tebow is just you ever have one of those brainstorming
sessions right where you have the white board and somebody goes,
all right, there's no such thing as a bad idea, right,
and somebody yells out, all right, let's call it eyes
marsh You're like, okay, that's a that's that's stretch where
we are in terms of our scientific development. But I'm
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gonna put it on the board just to have it
on the board. That's what Tebow is, right. You're in Florida,
You're looking for guys that are in shape that can
come in and give you something different, and somebody yelled
out Tebow in the back of the room, and you
wrote it on the board. It didn't mean you took
it seriously, but you did enter the discussion saying there
are no such thing as a bad idea. It's a
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bad idea, but you can't say it's such a thing
as a bad idea. What happened with Jake Cutler officially
signing with the Miami Dolphins was nothing more than exactly
what happened with the Minnesota Vikings last year. They need
a guy, and you know what, he's a lot better
than people fans will lead you to believe, and the guys,
especially when the head coach knows exactly who he is,
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exactly what he's about. He does have armed talent, and
the and the Miami Dolphins are probably thinking themselves, Hey,
you know what, we made the playoffs last year with
Matt Moore's our quarterback. We made the playoffs last year
with Ryan Tannehill as our quarterback. Jay Cutler in his
best day in our system is frankly better than Matt,
more better than Ryan tan Hill. And if he's equally
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as good and Jgi didn't have a concussion last week,
Jgi recovers they have a good running game. If the
nothing comes of this Jarvis lanjury um domestic assault allegation
that his girlfriend, the mother of his baby, said was nothing.
Jarvis Landry actually has I believe, the exact same number
of catches as his best friend Odell Beckham Jr. They
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have a superstar young wide receiver, They have offensive talent.
If they can stop anybody at all, I think it
makes sense. And oh yeah, by the way, what's being
reported as ten you know, a ten million dollar deal,
your contract. If he hits every bonus that he makes
ten million dollars, he's a starting quarterback in the NFL.
That's a bargain basement price. Going rate for a starting
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quarterback in the NFL is in the mid teens up
to twenty million dollars. That was the argument that Ryan
Fitzpatrick made last year when he held out. So if
you're arguing about the money, you don't understand the market.
If you're arguing about Jay Cutler as opposed to Colin Kaepernick,
you don't understand the sport, or you don't understand business.
And if you're saying we haven't seen anything like this before,
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you're not paying any attention Historically. We just saw it
last year. Here's here's Jay Cutler, who was on the Herd.
One of the great tenures in the history of Fox
Sports with Jay Cutler as an NFL analyst, I thought
he was outstanding here. Talking one in a new team
is always really hard, especially like you said, learning a
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new offense, learned the players, the coaches, dials like to
play aft Here with Adam and the Dolphins, it's one
of those situations where a few of those parameters are
kind of taken out because I know Adam, I know
how he likes to call games, I know how he
likes to operate, and and I know the system. Here's
why he decided to come out of retirement. He had
to be a perfect situation. And I think this is
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this is one of those situations where everything kind of
fell into place, like you're saying, and you know, the
timing was right, the personnel was right, the coach was right. Um,
you know, I was in the situation of my life
that uh, you know, my wife kind of allowed me
to to leave and do these type of things, so it, uh,
it worked out well. Here's Adam Gays, head coach of
the Dolphins, on if Cutler will have to earn a
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starting spot, maintain announcement right now. And he didn't come
out of retirement to stay on the sideline, but you
got ways to go get him in here too. Physical
kind of see where he's at. I love that he
didn't come out of retirements in the side line. It's
a great line. H feel bad for Matt Moore, but
that that's kind of life of the backup quarterback, right.
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You always got to be ready. You're never going to
truly get the respect you may well desert may well
have earned. But Jake Cutler's in Miami. Don't act like
we haven't seen this and don't act like it's anything
more than what the NFL does on a yearly basis.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug gott
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The thing about the Hall of Fame speeches is like,
I know, I know, it's the last time we're ever
going to mention the name Kenny Easily. I get it,
Like you'll they'll stand up there, Jason Taylor. It's such
a good looking human being, right, and he's and he
has a kind of unique look to him and like
a striking looking athlete that for the rest of the
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Hall of Fame ceremonies and you're like, oh, that's Jason Taylor.
Like Kenny Easily, just kind of a regular looking guy.
And I like Kenny. You think U c l A.
And when he's with the Seahawks back in the day. Um,
I'm not saying he was a bad player or not
a memorable player, but he's not a memorable personality, doesn't
have a memorable face. He's not some giant to which
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he he hops off the screen at you. The point
is it's probably the last well, ever, here if Kenny easily,
but like dude, when you're the first guy, you can't
go over twenty minutes, and Jason Taylor, when you're the
second guy, you can't go thirty minutes. You just can't.
And as much as they the opposite, the intended effect
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of mentioning every person I want you guys to all
stand up and I'm gonna go one by one and
tell you how awesome you are. The intended effect is
to give every person a moment to which they can uh,
they can feel the respect that you've earned by getting
your bust. But that's not what the moment is about. Look,
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I mean even Kurt Warner stood up there and he
he made here to point out Trent Green and said
that Trent Green, this could easily this could just as
easily been you and you not gotten hurt, which is
I mean again, that's who's day. And Thomas is a
great These are good human beings, but listen tonight, it's
not necessarily about being good human beings. Just pick one story,
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start them with a joke, make it self deprecating. Talk
about your life in football. How much football means do you?
How much it means to be there and then thank
you to everyone, and it's scrolling down underneath you. The
NFL network tried to help you and scroll those names
underneath you. It was completely and utterly unwatchable. Make the
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idea is to get you to watch all of these men,
to have the stories told, and have them told so
that you understand why they're being recognized. But because they
just cannot abide by a simple shot clock, it was.
It was an awful watch off the watch right and um,
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you know, and then you have people scolding on social media,
scolding fans for leaving early, like dude, you're an hour in,
two players into the night, check please right, Like I
got a sinner, I gotta get home enough I can,
I'll watch it on TV. It's like one of these
like now I just can't. I have no desire whatso
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I struggle with banquets anyway, And I'll struggle banquets like yeah, right,
like I lived through the season. I don't have to
have retold him in I mean really, so, I mean,
give me give me a short video, you know, even
the video it's I had a friend. I won't I
won't sell him out. I won't mention his name, but
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he was a keynote speaker at a tip off banquet
for one of the big East schools, and they said like, hey,
we need like a minute and a half, you know,
a minute to minut and a half intro about who
you are, some video like oh, I got it. And
he said it was like a tw all minute highlight tape.
And we're like, dude, like that, that's the night, isn't
about you? Now? These nights were about them, but not
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that much about them. Share the ball abide by a
shock clock. You almost feel like, can we start the
music like they do at the Academy Awards. Because that
was a rough watch. I don't know anybody's like that.
Oh that was a good watch. I really, I really
really enjoyed it. That was amazing. No one I know
enjoyed it. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
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you Live from l a Rams training camp. And as
I was telling you all, and I was about to
tell Sean McVeigh, the new head coach of the Rams,
it's one thing to grow up in Orange County. I
grew up in Orange County, but I actually grew up
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going to basketball camp at Crawford Hall, which uh is,
I don't know. If I could hit a driver straight,
I could hit the hit a driver and hit Crawford Hall,
which is you Servine's old bass ball Jim. They used
to have a coach named Bill Mulligan. He had Scott Brooks,
he had Todd Thornton, he had Todd Murphy, he had
plenty of guys that played in the NBA. And my
dad was an assistant Long Beach State and basketball but
used to send me here for for basketball camp, among
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other places. So this is a place very familiar to me,
but unfamiliar to Sean McVeigh who joins us. What to
take me through? First, the first meeting you had with
the team, right, like, look, your whole life, your football guy,
and this is your dream opportunity. You're not your four
years old, youngest head coach in the NFL, So you
know you're gonna talk to the team for the first time.
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You talked to players, You've talked to the media, but
the first time you meet with a group of ninety
men preparing for your first training camp. How'd you prepare
for that? Well, I think the biggest thing is is
that you've got a great coaching staff that you can
kind of lean on as we figure out, you know,
the kind of culture that we want to establish and maintain.
And that was something that we collectively kind of decided
on and and that message that we wanted to be
able to kind of deliver to the players. And then ultimately,
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they're the ones that drive the bus and make the
message go and and that's the thing that we wanted
to echo to them is to expect and you know,
ultimately we talk about it's always about the team, and
you know, as long as we're able to stay connected
and continue to do the little things the right way, uh,
we'll give ourselves a chance. And but did you like
practice it in your hotel room? Did you write out notes?
Did you in your mind go like, I want to
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get the m back of the team, the team, the team, Like, well,
you know, it's it's a good question. I think it's
definitely something that you know, you practice a little bit
because you want to make sure that you know it's authentic,
but you also want to make sure that you stay
kind of in alignment and within the structure of what
you wanted to get uh delivered to the players. So
definitely practiced, actually practice a couple of things I was
gonna say on my girlfriend the night before, and uh,
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it ended up being a lot of the same things
that that you talk about in the interview with you know,
with Kevin dem off Less Need and Tony Pastors, and
there are things that, uh, you really firmly believe in
because you've been around some great mentors and coaches and
you've seen what you think it looks like when it's right.
But then you also want to put your own spin
on it and what you think fits our team for
our players. And we feel like we're we're on the
right track right now and ultimately that will be decided
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when we get into the games. When you have the interview,
did you feel like you killed it? You know? I
felt like it was a good dynamic that we have,
you know, I I think you know, any time that
you sit down with somebody, you kind of know if
it's a natural rapport or not. And I think it
felt very comfortable and got an opportunity to sit down
with Jared the first time that I was there as
well where you talk to him. You watch a little
bit of tape and it seemed like, you know, our
core beliefs in terms of talking with Kevin talking with
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less our core beliefs in terms of how we wanted
to have things structured out. We're very much in alignment.
And I think any time that you're able to share
those things with the upper level management, you feel good
about the direction that you're going in. So often times
guys to get their first job get the worst job
in the league, right, Like, you didn't take a job,
you gotta gotta take a Cleveland at their bottom, or
Kyle Shanahan gets against San Francisco ton of draft picks,
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but it's at the bottom. That's not really the case here, Like,
this is a team that had thoughts that they could
maybe be a playoff team over the past couple of years.
The defense, uh, the running game, like all of those things.
You know people would kill for some of the pieces
on this team. So you have to feel like, wow,
this is a better opportunity to maybe even you thought
you could get initially. Yeah, No, I think that's I
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think that's a great way of putting it. Because there's
been a lot of really good core players in place
at those key spots that you feel like you can
build around. Uh. They've been successful on the defensive side
of the ball for the last handful of year special
teams as well. And I think when you look at offensively,
some of the core guys, you know, you look at
it Todd Gurley at running back, you look at what
Tavon Austin has done over the course of his career,
Jared Goff going into his second year, and then you're
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able to bring in guys like Robert Woods and Andrew
Whitworth and what he's meant to our line up front,
a veteran, and John Sullivan. So I think, you know,
we're continuing to find that mix, and you know, we've
got some young tight ends with Tyler Higbee and Gerald
Everts starting to emerge. So there's some pieces that we're
excited about these guys and they've done a nice job
up to this point and can't wait to see them,
you know, get a chance to compete in preseason games
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and then when it gets going against Indie. And probably
the biggest addition you made is defensive coordinator, bringing Wade Phillips,
who I know there's several teams around the NFL that
wanted him to come run their defense, and he decided
to work with you. How did you How did you
make how did you make that happen? Because I talked
to two different NFL people like we wanted Wade Phillips
and the Rams got him. How did you do it? Well?
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I'll tell you what was fortunate is that his daughter
lives out in l a very important you know, family
is very important to coach Wade, and I got a
chance to work with his son, West Phillips the last
handful of years in Washington. He's one of my closest
friends in coaching. So I have kind of gotten to
know Wade a little bit closer than maybe you would be,
just kind of knowing him in respecting his career from AFAR,
and I think, you know, you look at some of
the players that we had in place, I think it
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was exciting for him to get a chance to work
with some of the guys on the defensive side of
the football. And I think one of the things that
makes coach Wait a great coach is the fact that
he's able to bring out the best in those players.
You know, you look at all the great players that
he's been able to coach, and it seems like they
have their highest level of production when they're playing under him,
and I think that's a credit to his system and
the way that he teaches and coaches. You've been unbelievable
with the offense. You look what you did last year
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in d C with Kirk Cousins. Everyone knows that you're
gonna put your own kind of personal spin on the
offensive side of the ball. Everyone respects what he can
do on the defensive side of the the ball. I think
the in question that a lot of NFL people have
when I watch some of these shows and talk to
them is how much is he actually gonna have to
do with the defense? And can you be the head
coach and CEO of the team when you spend a
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ton of time with the offense, how are you going
to split up your time and you're focusing on game.
That's a good question, and I think when you look
at it, you know, just looking at being more involved
in the on the offensive side of the ball with
defensive leaders and special teams leaders with the Wade Phillips
and Joe Barry on defense and then special teams coordinator
John fossil. You feel very comfortable that Really I look
at as a unique opportunity to exit in their meetings
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and learn from them. And then from a defensive standpoint,
you know that the you know, the contribution that you
can make is by learning the defense. How would we
attack that and kind of trying to show them some
of the problem plays that we run offensively and just
force that communication and those adjustments and give them that perspective.
But certainly you're not going to tell coach Wade what
to do. You're gonna discuss things. And he's been so
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great to work with, and he's you know, really not
pushing any information on me, but so willing to share
and help give advice. You know, when I go to
him and um, you know, he's obviously got a lot
of experience to pull from and it's a blessing to
have him. Um. You know, so much of of what
you do or how your view perception, even if it's
not reality, is how you start and a lot of
that is also luck. Um. Speaking of Luck, I don't
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know if you've noticed, but Andrew Luck is not throwing
a football right now. That's your home opener. I mean again,
like in the everything that could have gone wrong went
wrong last year for the team. It feels like some
of the things are kind of working in your favorite
you even pay attention to that stuff. Yet, well, certainly,
you know, you flip on NFL Network, you're gonna be
mindful of of seeing that that Andrew hasn't practiced yet
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and that you know, they're saying it's possibility that he
might not be ready for the opener. But right now,
what I think our guys have done a great job
on is just kind of focusing on our daily improvement
that's implementing our systems. You know, we're about seven days
into our installs, where you know, you're really kind of
just starting to wrap it up, where you're getting to
your short yardage and your goal line. We've pretty much
hit all the other situations, and then it's gonna be
going back and making sure that we just kind of
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polish it up and there's an ownership from our players,
and then once we get closer to it, you start
the game plan and really focus on how we would
want to attack the Colts or whoever it is that
we're playing. But right now, I think the guys have
done a great job focusing on you know, our process
and that's just that daily improvement. Sean McVeigh, head coach
of the Rams, joining us. We're live at Rams camp
here in the Doug Otlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Um, you,
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I like to ask coaches all the time, like how
are you? Are you any good? It's really hard to
know if you're any good. So I guess the easiest
comparison is take last year's Redskins team seven days in
and you had cousins had been in the league longer.
But in comparison to install feel like, where are you
guys in comparison to last year's Redskins team where you
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had a quarterback that you didn't have a good as
good running back, but you had a quarterback through four
nine yards. I mean, you had a really good offense
last year. Where are you this year to last year? Well?
I think the biggest thing is is, you know, anytime
you look at good coaches, I think what they do
is is they find a way to get the most
out of their players and they adjust their personnel. And
you know, certainly we felt very fortunate and Washington have
a lot of great playmakers and we were able to
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spread it around on the perimeter, through the air with
you know, some of the weapons that we did have.
And you know, what I think is unique about this
opportunity is we're continuing to figure out what Jared's capable
of and kind of how to accentuate and maximize his
skill set, making sure that we're mindful of getting a
special running back and Todd Gurley involved, and figuring out
how the tight end and receiver positions play out with
how we want to distribute their touches. So I think
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that's something that we're figuring out as we go. You know,
you always have kind of a core installation in place,
but in terms of how as a play caller you
call the game what you want to maximize, because ultimately
it's about winning the football game and playing to the
team's strengths. And I think each team, you know, and
based on who your players are, will dictate a different
way you want to attack people. And um, I definitely
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think having some continuity at that quarterback spot enabled us,
you know, with Kirk from year one to year two
as a starter, do a little bit more, and that's
what we're hopeful for with Jared from just going from
his rookie year to the second year and then the
following year, having his second year in the system, we
expect to see that type of improvement as well. Is
there any way to um not worry about you're not
necessarily worry about or or eliminate the subconscious of your youth? Right? Like,
(25:06):
you're a young guy. You want to prove yourself, but
you know you can't try and prove yourself because then,
you know, then it ends up compounding the problem. So
how do you you know, I obviously winning cares you
win and nobody nobody's gonna care. But how do you
handle that in preparing for those moments of turbulence which
you're undoubtedly gonna have. You have to cut somebody with,
you have to discipline somebody. How do you set it
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up as the youngest head coach in the league? Well,
I think, Doug, the biggest thing for us is any
time that you're in a situation like this, it always
starts with building and developing relationships. And then as long
as we're able to deal with whether it's people players,
with open and clear and honest communication, and then they
see that we're invested in them to try to help them,
and we can help them become better players by what
we're coaching them. You know, that's when I think you
(25:49):
get the mutual respect in the buying and so so,
like in building, are you constantly text? Are you on
group text with them? Are you are you calling them
an individually? Like? How do you separate yourself in terms
of trying to create that relationship. I think it's just
being approachable, you know in the locker room, you know,
going up and talking to guys. It might be about football,
it might be about their families, you know, but you know,
whether it's at dinner or something like that, where you know,
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it's something that you just kind of make a point
to spend some time with these guys and and get
to know them, and and they can just see that, hey,
you know he's a coach, but you know, it cares
about me as a human being. And I think that's
the kind of coaching staff that we have. And then
if you're able to give them the right things to
help give them the tools on the practice field during
games to be able to have success, that's where I
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think that mutual respect occurs and you get that buy
in and that's what we're hoping to do. Well, I know,
it's gonna be pretty cool moment. I know it's not
an official game, but to coach your first game and
to coach it against the Dallas Cowboys, yeah, it's pretty cool.
It is even the other day when we go over
to Stubbhub to practice against the Chargers. It was a
great turnout and good competitive practice on both sides. But
you know, it starts to set in what a great
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and unique opportunity it is to to be a head
coach in the NFL and and it's something that's that's
humbling and very excited about the challenge, you know, doing
this with everybody. One of thirty two. That's that's awesome,
one of thirty two. And you get the Cowboys this weekend,
you open the season with the with the Colts, and
of course the big weekend for the Rams community getting
Kurt Warner into that Pro Football Hall of Fame. Will coach,
We wish you nothing but the best. Look forward to
(27:14):
catching up in the very near future. Off air, and
thanks so much for joining us. Thanks appreciate you having that.
Sean McVeigh, the new head coach of your l A Rams.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Doug Gott
Leaves Show weekdays at three pm Easter noon Pacific. Let's
play what did the Fox say? No say? All right,
so there's been a nice little healthy back and forth.
(27:34):
If you remember back last week, we've played this for you.
This is Joel Clatt, who Claud lives right down the street.
He's not here. Why don't we get Clapp the rams?
Can we still get him? Last hour? I get him
out of his get him out of this is Pj's
and have him drive up here and we can do
in person Joel Clad, he can talk about Jared Goff
and if he likes Jeared golf. Anyway, Joel Clad said
this about Notre Dame football. All you have to do
(27:54):
is go to the US News top thirty universities in
our country. Of the top thirty well schools play Power
five football, eight of them had a better record than
Notre Dame last year. So stop telling me Notre Dame
people that academics are preventing you from being good. Uh.
This is Brady Quinn over the weekend, former Notre Dame
(28:15):
quarterback defending the virtues of his alma mater. A lot
of people think that, you know, schools will just kind
of tend to, you know, allow anyone in. You know,
if they're good enough, they'll make an exception. They'll find
a way. Here's the issue. A lot of your higher
academic schools, even if they could make an exception for
some players and recruits, which they can and they do,
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those guys won't survive. A couple of guys I got
kicked out because they got caught cheating, and they didn't
get kicked out by the n C double A. They
got kicked out by Notre Dame because that's their stance,
and it show goes to show you that they were
just trying to survive there. The workload is so intense,
your time is so scarce because of football and academics
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and the amount that they put on you that it's
easy to say that when your Joel Klatt and you
want to somewhere like Colorado. And again I'm not trying
to degrade Colorado, but I can tell you the admission
standards into Notre Dame are much greater than what he
ever experienced. I would look, I would actually agree I
went to Notre Dame. I obviously people know about my
history Notre Dame. I think here's the thing. Some school.
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Stanford is really hard to get into, but no one
flunks out. There are other schools cal Berkeley, not as hard.
They actually they have relaxed admission standards for athletes, but
it's harder sometimes to stay in school there. Notre Dame,
by my estimation, is both hard to get into and
hard to stay in. And they actually do have an
(29:43):
honor code and they do abide by that honor code.
Uh so, and and picking out final record is is
lame right. Notre Dame plays a legit schedule almost every year. Um.
They don't have many granted that play the the the
military academies, but those that's those school's biggest games, and
they usually give them a hell of a game. Um.
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I think it is it is harder to get it
done at the highest level at Notre Dame than most places.
Stanford obviously is screwing up that whole mantra because it's
very hard to get into Stanford, and you do have
to carry a substantial academic load and there aren't major
that you can hide in the one differences at Stanford,
and their professors are kind of all in on. Nobody
(30:25):
flunks out, and they don't have the kind of people
that flunk out that that's what the Fox said, say
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