Mike LaFleur stood with two of his new position coaches nearby, and the Rams’ offensive coordinator reached back into his past, two jobs ago, to try to describe what Sean McVay’s done to Los Angeles’s tried-and-true scheme this offseason.
Five years ago, LaFleur was Kyle Shanahan’s pass-game coordinator in San Francisco, and the 49ers brought the Navy SEALs in to train the players. The coaches got educated, too.
“It’s like what the SEALs say: You always have to evolve,” LaFleur says. “For them, if you don’t evolve, you’re dead. Now, this is a whole different deal, it’s football. But it’s the truth, and Sean knows that. If you’re not always evolving, trying to be one step ahead of the league, and one step ahead of defensive coordinators, it’s hard to be successful. He’s always been evolving, so this just gave him something to grab, where you say, Hey, you’ve done it this way, I wanna hear about it, and how it’s going to fit our system.”
