Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan could sit every starter possible on Sunday but the two people who they can’t bench is themselves. Forget about Matthew Stafford, Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey, Kyren Williams, Aaron Donald, and Nick Bosa. Maybe they can’t do much to help their respective teams win on Sunday.
But Week 18’s contest between the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers is no different for McVay and Shanahan than any other game: Each of them wants to beat the other just as badly as they have in their other 14 meetings as head coaches.