PHILADELPHIA – Most remember Bill Belichick putting a befuddled Sean McVay on blast with a six-man defensive front in the New England Patriots 13-3 win over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII.
The footnote to that is Belichick was playing copycat that February night in 2019, emulating Vic Fangio, who had just been named the head coach of the Denver Broncos about a month earlier after a very successful stint as the defensive coordinator in Chicago where he came up with the 6-1 front in December of 2018 to slow down the Rams’ outside zone rushing attack.
During an 11-1 start to the 2018 season, McVay’s high-flying Rams scored at least 30 points 10 times, topping out with a 54-spot against Kansas City with a low-water mark of 23 at Denver…