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Sarah Barshop
Los Angeles-Davante Adams waited for the video of Los Angeles Rams chief coach, Sean McVay, to load, wondering if his Wi-Fi was broken.
It was at the beginning of March, and the open agent’s open receiver was in Japan on vacation before the start of the new year of the League.
When the clip was finally charged, Adams realized because It had taken so long. It was a seven -minute video filmed by McVay, who recorded him holding his phone to show the Adams movie while he narrated the most prominent aspects.
“It was a bit of Jon Gruden-a little,” Adams said. “You know how it is with the ball, so you are breaking each clip … I thought it took that job to be on television for a minute when I was watching her.
“It simply shows how much ball it means to him and how many priority was for him and the rest of the boys here because he is not only making those decisions. When you have that from a coach, you are in the free market and you do not see it from anyone else at that level, it means a lot.”
Adams laughed when he was asked how he would describe McVay as a recruiter, saying: “aggressive, but correctly.”
“I knew this,” McVay said at the annual NFL meeting this month. “When I sent him that video, he is thinking of one of the two things: ‘Man, I like this guy or is going crazy.’ And probably both, but decided to come with us, so we will take it.”
McVay, who now enters his ninth season as coach of the Rams, has not only built a reputation as a great soccer mind, but has built a culture that has led the players who want to come to Los Angeles. Not only several players, including field marshal Matthew Stafford, took less money to return to the Rams in this low season, but McVay has been able to recruit players like Adams to play for a team built with a Super Bowl in mind.
“It’s a good recruiter, man,” said Alternate Field Marshal Jimmy Garoppolo. “It’s a soft talkative, [has] High energy, which I really enjoy. I love they are. Every day brings that same energy.
“I love being here. Everything starts with him, and drips from there.”
Not long after the 2024 season ended with a defeat against the Philadelphia Eagles in a Divisional Playoffs contest of the NFC, McVay, the general manager Les Snead, the president of the team, Kevin Demoff, and the vice president of the Football and Business Administration, Tony Pastorios, went to Meadowood in Napa Valley, California, for “An after Action Review, “according to McVay.
It was there, the group talked about the short and long term vision of the team, the players who would be free agents and other potential movements. The group discussed Cooper Kupp “a lot during those two days”, deciding to move from the open receiver, either with an exchange or launch.
The Rams had also “identified early in the process” that Adams would probably be released by New York’s jets and would be available, and McVay began to imagine how Los Angeles’s 2025 offensive could be.
“Through the process of speaking with Davante, even if it were worldwide, Sean found someone with whom they could connect at a very intellectual level,” Demoff said. “… I don’t think you can replace the leadership of Cooper Kupp in what is understood in that room, but I think you can have someone who can provide a different taste and perspective will be great.
“But I think there has always been, whether Matthew Stafford, Brandin Cooks, Ndamukong Suh, Sammy Watkins, can go through litany since the beginning of the Sean-Lles relationship is when they identify a need and there is a capacity through a trade or free agency to obtain it, they will be quite aggressive.
“And sometimes you try to pull the reins to stop, but they usually do a good job freeing and, usually, it works.”
McVay didn’t come to you and I cease, Snead said.
“He recruits a ‘This is what I think your super powers are as a soccer player, that’s how I think we can use them, and that’s how people have defended you in the past,'” said Snead. “‘This is how I think we can help you avoid that defense. And we are trying to do something special here.'”
That recruitment launch worked in Adams, who said at his introductory press conference “after talking with a couple of players, sen and a couple of the other staff, it was clear that this was where he needed to be.”
The Rams signed Adams with a two -year contract and $ 44 million in March with $ 26 million guaranteed.
Snead said McVay’s recruitment also helps him during contract negotiations.
“There are times when the agents go: ‘I simply cannot bear how this is going because my player is saying that here is where we are going, we could also stop playing and try to solve something,” said Snead.
Garoppolo, who signed a one -year contract to serve as a substitute field marshal in March 2024 because he wanted to play for McVay, said last season in Los Angeles, “he overcame [his] Expectations. “The field marshal explored the free agents market and had other opportunities, but said he knew where he wanted to be.
“I have been in a couple of good organizations, [have] seen how things run and be [McVay] Does he do it first category here? “Garoppolo said.
Garoppolo was a player that the Rams expected him to return in 2025, but one who thought he had a good opportunity to sign more money elsewhere. When asked about McVay’s recruitment field, Garoppolo said: “Every time I talk to him on the phone, I say about 10 words. However, he is speaking so fast, in good sense. It is his high energy.
“He has a point to make and I love him. There are no Bs -I around.”
The Tackle Nariz Poona Ford, who played the first five seasons of his career with the Seattle Seahawks, said that “he always saw [McVay] From the distance “during the two games, the teams played a season and he” always knew that he was a guy for which he could see me playing at some point. “
Ford said his recruitment to the Rams “happened very fast.”
“They were really aggressive in the process, and I felt that this was where I needed to be,” Ford said.
And ultimately, the Rams have had a winning history under McVay, going to two Super Bowls and winning the LVI of the Super Bowl during the 2021 season.
“If you are a football player who really, he really cares about playing a good football and wants to be part of an ecosystem he wins,” said Snead. “… I always go, oh, it is recruiting, but it is really that they really explain: ‘Hey, this is our ecosystem. This is how we do things and if you want to be part of that man, we would really love to have you. And if you don’t do it, we will always throw from you and try to ruin your day if we play you'”. “” “” “” “”
