Sean McVay says the packages for Odell Beckham Jr. with Rams are ‘work in progress’

Coming off the bye week, the Los Angeles Rams teaching workers had a couple of additional days to sport plan Odell Beckham Jr.’s function within the offense going ahead. With Robert Woods misplaced for the season, Beckham should fill the void in his absence — getting the chance he wasn’t envisioning with the Cleveland Browns. 

Beckham had a restricted package deal of performs for him in his Rams debut, recording simply two catches for 18 yards on three targets in 15 snaps. What does head coach Sean McVay have in retailer for his new receiver going ahead? 

He is nonetheless engaged on that. 

“I feel that is a piece in progress,” McVay stated Tuesday on designed packages for Beckham. “There’s some shifting elements to that. What I did not wish to do is immerse him in some data after which you find yourself adjusting and altering. So, I feel you need to have the ability to foundationally construct it the appropriate approach, formations, all these sorts of issues, and you then do should be particular with the way in which that we implement the sport plan.”

Beckham has simply 19 catches for 250 yards in seven video games this 12 months, accounting for zero touchdowns. The 13.2-yards-per-catch common is the bottom of his profession when Beckham has performed greater than 4 video games in a season, which McVay hopes to enhance within the coming weeks — together with figuring out the performs on the line of scrimmage as a substitute of getting them within the huddle. 

Having various days with the Rams will assist heading into Sunday’s showdown with the Inexperienced Bay Packers. 

“I do know he was doing a little stuff behind the scenes. However he is a sensible, conscientious man,” McVay stated. “I feel the objective for us is ensuring that we get a plan in alignment that gives readability for all of our gamers, particularly Odell, simply because he’s new to the system. 

“However, there’s a number of similarities when it comes to the verbiage and the vernacular that they have been using in Cleveland. And so that may assist and it will pressure us to be even that rather more air tight with our sport plan, which I feel is an efficient, optimistic factor for us as coaches as properly.”