In the last two offseasons, Rams assistant coaches have been hot commodities. Matt LaFleur was hired by the Titans to be their offensive coordinator two years ago, and last offseason, the Packers brought him in to be their head coach. Also after the 2017 season, Greg Olson left the Rams to become Jon Gruden’s offensive coordinator in Oakland, a position he still holds today.
Last year, Zac Taylor was poached from Los Angeles to become the Bengals’ next head coach, replacing Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati. Shane Waldron was interviewed by the Bengals for the same opening, which came as somewhat of a surprise.
Sean McVay’s offensive assistants have been in high demand recently, but that isn’t the case in 2019 – yet. McVay said at his press conference Monday that he hasn’t yet received any interview requests from other teams for his assistants.
“We have not, not like last year. I think there’s a couple guys that may have some interest you know from some colleges but out of respect for the privacy of those places, I don’t want to get into that,” McVay said. “I’m always going to be of the approach that you want to try to help guys. I don’t ever want assistants apologizing for being ambitious and wanting to grow and wanting to have their careers if they have the goals of being a head coach or taking the next step, depending upon where they’re at. I don’t think those are things that people should apologize for. I think part of what we want to try to do is help people grow. That’s why I was fortunate enough to get to the role that I got to at a young age because I had so many good people that were willing to help me.”
Waldron would seem to be a potential head coaching candidate after drawing interest from the Bengals last year, but McVay doesn’t expect any of his assistants to be sought after like the were a year ago.
That could change, of course, but it’s been quiet on that front so far.
“Don’t anticipate a whole lot of those kind of like what you were asking with what happened last year,” he added. “But again, usually those kind of conversations and those requests come in today and over the next couple days. We wouldn’t have known that last year either. You see kind of the buzz and if you’re writing if guys are going to be head coaching candidates on Gary Klein’s weekly profile for the L.A. Times, maybe you’ll get some guys requested.”
As of now, only the Redskins’ head coaching vacancy has been filled with Ron Rivera being hired on Tuesday. The Browns, Panthers and Giants are all looking for new head coaches after Freddie Kitchens, Rivera and Pat Shurmur were all fired.
Jason Garrett of the Cowboys and Doug Marrone in Jacksonville could be the next coaches on the way out.
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