It was barely over a year ago that Sean McVay and the Los Angeles Rams were basking in the glory of having achieved the incredible feat of winning the Super Bowl. And as it currently stands, they're in the exact opposite situation right now, having missed the postseason by a large margin. There may be several factors that led to their sudden fall from the top, but that's a discussion for a different day.
In the meantime, multiple reports indicate that McVay could do the unthinkable and actually step aside from coaching just over a year after leading his team to the top of the NFL mountain.
"I think that acknowledgement helps me work through it," McVay said Friday about his openness that this season has been challenging, via The Athletic's Jourdan Rodrigue. "It doesn't mean that it changes the passion and the love that you have for it. But to sit up here and say that this hasn't been challenging because so much of it is predicated on -- like, even the comment that I made the other day when the question was asked – we're charged with trying to be able to win football games.
"That doesn't mean that I feel like a failure, it means that we haven't lived up to the expectations. There's a lot of reasons for that. But it doesn't change your passion, your competitiveness."
Could there be a major television deal that could lure McVay away from the Rams? It's a possibility.
"I think it's flattering," McVay said. "There are always going to be things that you kind of anticipate and expect that are gonna come up, because I haven't run away from the fact that down the line or, you know, whenever that is, that's something I've been interested in. But (I) want to be here right now, focus on that, and that's where I'm at."
