Have you recently had a beer with Sean McVay?
Congratulations, you’re now an NFL head coach.
That was the joke going around the league this past offseason, and it’s only a slight exaggeration of the latest turn of the coaching carousel.
Yes, every team in the league is trying to re-create a bit of the magic that turned around the Rams, who were a 4-12 team in 2016, but have improved 11-5 in 2017 and a Super Bowl appearance in 2018 under McVay.
The Raiders had a one-year head start.
While I can’t say if Raiders coach Jon Gruden has taken McVay to a Hooters for a lukewarm Corona in the last few years, but it is worth noting that the Raiders’ head coach hired the Rams’ wunderkind when he was barely old enough to drink.