Five Things Learned from 2026 Rams OTAs

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Welcome to your custom deep dive. It's June twenty twenty six,
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and we are looking at Woodland Hills, California.
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Right the new practice facility exactly.
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The Los Angeles Rams have just wrapped up their nine
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week off season workout program, you know, OTAs and training
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camp is like officially on the horizon.
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It's a weird transition period, right, the pans aren't on
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no live contact, so it's all about scheme and intellectual testing.
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Yeah, which brings us to the actual mission of this
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deep dive. Today, we're looking at an official dispatch by
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Stu Jackson titled five Things Learned from twenty twenty six
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Rams OTAs.
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Great piece, really detail.
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It really is. But to be clear to you listening,
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we aren't just like reading down a roster or a
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depth chart.
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Here, No nobody needs that.
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Right, we are unpacking the overarching philosophies, some surprising standout players,
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and honestly, the fascinating ways these coaches are adapting to
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superstar talent before the real hitting even begins.
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Which is completely changing how we view modern football defense.
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Honestly, totally. So let's start on the defensive side of
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the ball, because a major theme emerging from OTAs right
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now is just this radical, almost chaotic versatility.
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Chaos is a good word for it. Head coach Sean
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McVay has been really praising the teaching progression in the secondary.
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Right, they're basically destroying traditional position boundaries exactly.
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Like take the new addition. Trent McDuffie the Dispatch explicitly says,
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he's playing all over.
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Yeah, he's taking reps inside outside, in the slot on
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the boundary. It's like he's untethered.
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And it's not just the corners, you know, the safeties
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are doing the same thing. They aren't just sitting fifteen
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yards deep anymore.
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No, they're cross training at like highly specialized sub package position.
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Right, the Star, the dime, and the money positions.
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Which I mean we should probably define those mechanically just
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so everyone is on the same page.
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Oh definitely. So the Star is basically a specialized nickelback
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playing inside near the line of scribbage right.
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Needs the hip fluidity of a corner, but the physical
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density to you know, tackle running back exactly.
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Then you have the dime, usually your sixth defensive back
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brought in on obvious passing.
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Downs like covering a tight end or a pass catching back.
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Yeah, and then the money roll is almost this hybrid
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linebacker safety lingering in the box, ready to plug a
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run lane or drop into a short zone.
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Okay, let's unpack this, because if you ask one single
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player to learn the deep safety role and the Star
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and the Dime and the money and the money, you're
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basically asking them to learn four different playbooks.
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You really are. The physics of the line of scrimmage
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are totally alien compared to playing deep center field.
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It's insane. The angles, the reaction times, it's all compressed.
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McVeigh actually compared it to what offensive line coach Ryan Wendele.
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Does right, Yeah, moving guys from inside guard to outside tackle.
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So they grasped the whole blocking concept, right. What's fascinating
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here is how this actually alters the core teaching mechanics.
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You can't just give a guy a static geographical assignment anymore.
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Like you only cover the deep right third.
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Exactly, because the system breaks this second you ask him
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to step down into the money spot. Instead, they're teaching
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what McVeigh calls core coverage contours.
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So wait, how does a coverage contour actually work on
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the grass compared to a rigid position.
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Well, think of it this way. A traditional defense is
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like man to man. You just follow your guy everywhere.
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Which is exhausting, and it tips off the quarterback immediately right.
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But a contour is more like a fluid spatial web.
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You learn the rules of the pattern, not the individual assignment.
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If a receiver crosses the formation, you don't chase him.
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You seamlessly pass him off, like handing off a baton.
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Yes, but doing that requires an insane amount of nonverbal communication.
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Which means pre snap they can disguise everything. The quarterback
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walks up, sees what looks like a standard three down
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or four down front, thinks.
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He knows exactly where the pressure.
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Is coming from, and the second the ball snapped, the
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defensive backs just rotate into this totally unexpected coverage shell.
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It creates a post snap illusion. It forces the quarterback
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to hesitate.
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And in the NFL, a half second of hesitation.
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Is a sack, yep, usually a brutal one.
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But okay, this brings us to a massive contradiction in
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these OTAs. We're talking about this philosophy of doing absolutely
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everything right right, but then you have the arrival of
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a player who does one specific thing at a historically
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terrifying level.
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Oh Man, Miles Garrett.
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Jersey number ninety five. So he showed up late to OTAs, right,
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only doing individual drills and watching team drills.
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Yeah, and the big puzzle here is where he fits mechanically,
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because he is a textbook four to three defensive.
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End, hand in the dirt, exploding forward to destroy the
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quarterback exactly.
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But at OTAs he's working with outside linebackers coach Joe.
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Keniglia, which is crazy because a traditional outside linebacker stands
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up in a three to four scheme. They rush, sure,
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but they also drop into coverage.
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Yeah. The visual of a two hundred and seventy pound
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generational pass rusher suddenly taking notes from the linebacker's coach
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it cause.
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A bit of a stir naturally, so defensive coordinator Chris
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Shula had to address it, and his response was super revealing.
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He said, they absolutely will not force Garrett out of
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his comfort zone.
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Right. He literally compared it to basketball, like you don't
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pull Michael Jordan or Lebron James out of the spots
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where they dominate. Right.
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You tailor the scheme to the transcended talent, not the
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other way around.
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Wait, I have to playfully push back on this though.
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Okay, well, let's hear.
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We literally just spent ten minutes talking about this intricate,
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fluid web of a defense, cross training, shape shifting, coverage contours. Yeah,
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if you take a traditional four to three defensive end,
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stick them with the stand up linebackers and say just
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do what makes you comfortable, doesn't that shatter the entire
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structure if he's not playing by the same adaptive rules.
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Doesn't that break the machine?
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Ah? I see what you mean. But if we connect
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this to the bigger picture, it doesn't break the machine
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at all. It's actually the engine that makes the machine work.
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How So, it's the difference between foundational players and structural players.
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Okay, define those two profiles for me.
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Well, Trerent McDuffie and those versatile safeties, they're structural players.
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Their ability to shape shift is what gives the defense
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its integrity.
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Their versatility is their superpower exactly.
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But Miles Garrett iss a foundational player. His superpower is
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just pure unadulterated physical disruption. Right. You don't ask him
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to learn five positions to confuse the quarterback. You tell
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them to hit the quarterback as fast as humanly possible.
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And the structural players just cover up whatever gaps he
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leaves behind.
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Yep, if you have Lebron James, you don't ask him
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to be a decoy in the corner to fit some
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neat whiteboard play. You let him dictate the geometry of the.
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Game, because an elite pass rush cures a multitude of
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sins in the secondary.
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One hundred percent. It's a dual philosophy, intellectual chaos in
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the back, physical dominance upfront.
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Which is such a brilliant way to accommodate a superstar.
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And this actually leads into another major theme the veterans, right, Yeah,
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Garrett McDuffie, Jalen Watson. They aren't just winning plays, they're
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actively rewiring the intellectual culture of the building because.
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Chris Shula views these guys as actual resources. Their value
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isn't just physical, right.
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They have thousands of hours of live game data, They've
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seen every trick a quarterback has.
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And Shula is actively soliciting their input. He's tailoring the
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defense based on what they felt comfortable with on their
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previous teams.
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He's asking the players to teach the coaches.
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Yeah, and we're even seeing them bring in guys like ohlb,
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Tom and Fox to add another piece to this growing
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veteran puzzle.
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And this culture of internal learning is happening on the
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offensive side too. Entering his third year, Nate Schielhass just
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got promoted to offensive coordinator.
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Which in the modern NFL is super rare. Usually teams
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want to poach some hot young mind from a rival.
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Team right to bring in fresh ideas, but elevating Shielhas
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internally proves they value their established shared language.
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The players don't have to learn a whole new vocabilary
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just because a staff member left.
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So what does this all mean? If Shula is tweaking
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the playbook based on star player preferences and they're promoting
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from within to keep the status quo, are the players
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basically running the team?
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I mean, I get why people might think that, but
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it's really a misread of how modern organizations work.
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Right. It's not a loss of authority exactly.
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A rigid, insecure coach demands absolute conformity, but a confident
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coaching staff views the operation as a collaborative think tank,
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especially when you have.
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To face the Chiefs and the Seahawks. In twenty twenty six.
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Oh absolutely Shule is the architect, but he's crowdsourcing solutions
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from the guys executing the plays under fire.
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It's a huge removal of ego, saying your idea is better,
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let's run it. But as much as the defense is
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thriving on these veterans.
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The offense is a totally different story.
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Yeah, it's a start. Contrast the veterans supervision on offense
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has just vanished.
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The QB room looks completely different this spring. Matthew Stafford
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is out on a Medici advised res plan and.
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Jimmy Garoppolo is unsigned and thinking about retirement.
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Right, So there's this massive power vacuum and the.
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Reps are falling squarely on fourth year quarterback Stetson Bennett
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and Rickle ty Simpson.
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But the returns have been surprisingly positive. You know. McVeigh
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has noted tremendous growth from Stetson Bennett.
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Taking command of the huddle, which is psychologically huge for
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a young QB.
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Getting ten professional athletes to respect your cadence is no joke.
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And McVeigh also praised him for reading with his feet
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under Dave Ragone.
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Oh, let's actually explain that mechanic, because reading with your
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feet sounds like pure coach speak.
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It really does, but it's crucial.
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A quarterback's footwork is tied to the receiver's routes. If
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it's a quick three step drop, your eyes scan the
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first read on step one, the second on step two.
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And the ball has to leave your hand the exact
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fraction of a second. Your back foot hits the grass
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on step three exactly.
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If the feed are late, the eyes are late, the.
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Pass is late, and Bennett is a pair currently mastering
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that precision. Meanwhile, you have the rookie Ty Simpson.
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Oh man, Ty Simpson.
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He's having a very different experience. He called it drinking
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from a fire hydrant, putting in massive extra hours just
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to learn the playbook.
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Here's where it gets really interesting. When young qbs get
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first team reps. People always say, oh, it's like a
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kid getting the keys to dad's sports car.
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Right, Well, dad's on vacation.
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Yeah, But an NFL offense isn't a sports car. It's
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a commercial jetliner.
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Oh, that's a good way to put it.
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Ty Simpson is basically in a mid flight simulator trying
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to read hundreds of gages, talk to air traffic control,
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and fly the plane all while insane defensive contours are
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shifting in front of him.
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The cognitive load is just immense. He's learning a dense
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new language and has to speak it fluently under pressure.
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Which is an invaluable trial by fire. They wouldn't be
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getting these reps if Stafford was taking his normal workload.
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Yeah, the vacuum is accelerating their growth. But this raises
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an important question about everything we've talked about today.
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Okay, what is it?
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How much can we actually trust these spring evaluations? Ah,
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Because McVeigh himself had a huge caveat. He explicitly said
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this is not real football, which is.
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The ultimate reality check. The rules literally prohibit live contact right.
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Now, no tackling at all. Most of these reps are
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seven on.
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Seven droll, So just visualize that no offensive or defensive.
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Lineman right, no pass rutch screaming off the edge to
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cause panic, No three hundred pound defensive tackles clogging the middle.
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It's a sterile laboratory. They're purely testing passing concepts and
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open space coverage rotations.
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So when we praise a young QB or a safety
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executing a contour, we are grading them in a vacuum
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where the sheer physical violence of the NFL is turned off.
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It definitely skews things. Quarterbacks are way braver when they
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know they can't get hit exactly.
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The physical execution can be validated until August.
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True, but the mental and emotional processing that's real.
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One hundred percent diagnosing rotations, commanding the huddle. Those mental
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pathways are being hardwired right now.
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And the dispatch also highlighted running back Blake Korum, he's
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wearing number twenty four.
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Now, oh yeah, the new dad.
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Yeah, he just became a father, and he talked about
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finding a new why. That emotional grounding, that maturation, it
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translates to how you handle adversity on the field.
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And that kind of mental upgrade doesn't just disappear when
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the pads come on exactly.
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So, as we step back and look at the whole
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picture here, the twenty.
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Twenty six rams are really a study in contrasts.
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They really are. On defense, you have this hyperversatile shape shifting,
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secondary learning fluid contours.
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While simultaneously bending the rules for a specialized superstar like
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Miles Garrett.
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Right, and you have a defense acting as a collaborative
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think tank relying on veteran wisdom while.
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The offense is in this massive leadership vacuum, throwing rookie
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qbs to the wolves to learn the playbook.
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It's an audacious blueprint. It takes so much trust, But
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I want to leave you, the listener, with one final
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provocative thought. Okay, the Rams have tent nine weeks building
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this beautiful, highly adaptable machine in the California sunshine, in
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sterile seven on seven drills where nobody gets hurt.
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Not real football, right, So.
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What happens to this brilliantly designed, player influenced scheme the
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very first time a three hundred pound lineman is allowed
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to hit someone at full speed in training camp.
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Do the contours hold up under chaotic violence or do
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the theories shatter on first contact?
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The blueprints are drawn, but the stress test is coming.
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Thank you for joining us on this custom deep dive.
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Keep questioning the playbook, keep exploring the mechanics, and keep
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looking for the why beneath the surface of the game.