Los Angeles Rams: Sean McVay is showing he can change things for the better
By Keith Rivas
After seeing how the Los Angeles Rams play now without Jeff Fisher, it’s time to think of how big the impact has been of Sean McVay.
As we enter the second season of the Los Angeles Rams and their return to California, their new head coach Sean McVay has a lot to prove in the 2017-18 season. It’ll be a campaign where former first overall pick Jared Goff will be even more heavily scrutinized.
The Rams made a big move up for Goff last summer, and it didn’t exactly look like it paid off in his rookie season. However, Goff has seemed much more poised and comfortable with his game thus far in the pre-season. The hope is that the confidence he put on display doesn’t disappear when the team needs it most.
Additionally, having a strong young rookie receiver in Cooper Kupp has been excited to see. The Rams also recently traded for former Bills receiver Sammy Watkins, which gives Goff and the entire Rams offense a potential spark that they’ve been missing.
What this means for Sean McVay is two fold. First, this means that he won’t have the same room for excuses that Jeff Fisher did.
Sure, Fisher was his own mess, but the fact that his offense didn’t have too much talent on it gave him a way out after most games. Now, Goff looks strong and Todd Gurley is back to original form.
Mix that with the talent and depth at receiver that they have to work with, and you start to realize that this team could end up being really good.
Second, McVay’s entrance as head coach feels a lot like Luke Walton coming to Los Angeles for a job with the Lakers. Both are young with their first big experience as head coach coming in LA and also coming in to replace and old-timer type of coach.
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As long as McVay can create a comfortable atmosphere that the players enjoy and can thrive in, the Rams will be much more dangerous than most of us realize.