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A number of months in the past, there have been rumors that Sean McVay could also be performed with teaching, however now the Los Angeles Rams head coach is saying he desires to proceed teaching for the foreseeable future. The Rams went 5-12 in 2022, only one yr after successful the Super Bowl and that outcome precipitated McVay to query what his subsequent step can be.
After admitting he wished to evaluate issues, McVay says that point of thought was useful for him.
“When you undergo a few of the issues that we went by means of final yr, you possibly can actually get misplaced in issues turning into a burden greater than a blessing,” McVay stated (through NFL.com). “When you actually take a step again and get an opportunity to mirror, generally that reflection is greatest served after the humbling experiences and the difficult experiences.”
Where the Rams at the moment stand shouldn’t be someplace McVay felt snug leaving them. He stated he felt L.A. deserved extra from him.
“To say that as a competitor that that is one thing that I’d have felt snug strolling away with, no,” he stated. “I’d not have felt snug strolling away from a state of affairs the place I feel I owed extra to the folks than that.”
This shouldn’t be the primary time McVay’s teaching future has been known as into query and he hopes it isn’t an annual dialogue. He wished a long-term dedication to the crew with a choice that’s “in alignment for years to come back, not an every-year sort of deal.”
“I’m actually dedicated to not having this turn out to be a narrative yearly,” the 37-year-old stated. “Because I do know that is most likely one thing that individuals are asking or questioning, and I do not take that flippantly. That was why the reflection, as a result of there was by no means a doubt whether or not you wished to teach once more. It’s actually simply, ‘Are you going to have the ability to have the suitable perspective to be the perfect model of your self for the gamers and the coaches?’ And I really feel assured that that may exist transferring ahead.”
McVay has made the dedication to the crew and now he has the problem of making an attempt to show them round from the struggles of final season. The Rams are in a tricky spot with restricted draft picks and never quite a lot of cap house and had key gamers injured final yr.