00:00Coach, you know, you talk all the time about being on the same page with, you know, your offensive line
00:06coach.
00:06Is that the most important coach for you?
00:09That when you're building a game plan each and every single week, is that guy the guy that you have
00:15to be in sequence with when it comes to protecting your quarterback, setting the protections, and also being involved in
00:21the run game?
00:22How important is that relationship when you're talking with your offensive line coach?
00:27I think the offensive line coach is the most important hire on your staff.
00:31He's the first guy that I would look up and try to get the very best that there is.
00:35I think that your success as a football team starts in the offensive line, keeps the defense off the field,
00:41lets you throw it or run it at will, however you want.
00:45You look at the success Detroit's had because they've had a great offensive line, and of course Danny's a great
00:49head coach, but as you look at the teams throughout the league, they have a great offensive line.
00:53And those guys generally are going to be in the playoffs, and when you see Tunsell and some of those
00:57guys, the left tackle at the commanders, go down the center now at, you know, at Mays, at Detroit, those
01:04are going to be issues.
01:06The great offensive line gave you a position to be a champion, and it's just, in my mind, that's just
01:11in granted.
01:12Coach, when you see a guy like Matthew Stafford come from a situation in Detroit, and he gets around Sean
01:19McVay, you know, what's different from Matthew Stafford Detroit with Matthew Stafford in Los Angeles?
01:26Is it just talent?
01:28Because let's not forget, in Detroit, he did have Megatron up there, didn't have the running game that they probably
01:34have better in Los Angeles.
01:36But what's the difference between Stafford Detroit, Stafford LA?
01:41It's a perfect storm.
01:42Of course, McVay, he's just a terrific coach, and I think the opportunities and the creativity is a great match
01:51for him.
01:52I don't know if there's anything that Stafford can't do.
01:55I think when Stafford was at Detroit, I think he had a poor coaching staff.
02:00And I hate to say that, but it happens in the league when you get a great talent like that.
02:04And then let's just say he stays with Danny Campbell.
02:07How good would he be?
02:08Who knows?
02:09But, you know, LA, they've got such a great staff, and obviously you look at all the coaches that have
02:14been there now with him and gone on, great success.
02:17It's hard to believe that such a young football coach can be so dynamic and creative at this early in
02:22his career, you know.
02:23And I think it's just a perfect storm.
02:25It really is.
02:26And I think he's really prolonged Stafford's career.
02:30Absolutely.
02:30Coach, do you think the one thing, though, that Detroit and maybe the years now in Los Angeles, you've got
02:36to get a strong running game like you had there with –
02:39I think everybody was under the notion that you guys were the greatest show on turf of all time.
02:44But at the end of the day, you guys were just a great run team, too, with Marshall.
02:49We were always a top-five rushing team, you know.
02:52And I think that that goes back to the offensive line comment that we were talking about a minute ago,
02:56Dan.
02:57I think it goes hand-in-hand, of course.
02:59You have to be willing to run the football.
03:01And to think that you have a great back and you're just going to do well running the football just
03:05doesn't work.
03:06It's like having a great quarterback with no receivers and protection, those kinds of things.
03:10There's a marriage there that makes it all work.
03:12And I think the commitment with a great offensive line and a back like in Detroit, you know.
03:18Jameer Gibbs was a guy that I just loved coming out.
03:20And, you know, you put him in an offense that's creative rushing-wise and, you know, it's awesome.
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