Saturday afternoon’s win by the Rams should have offered a shot of clarity for any and all teams currently searching for a head coach: Sometimes it’s not just about hiring the guy on everyone else’s list, when a bit of informed digging can turn up the kind of person whose coaching abilities can negate a whole mess of other that arise during a game.
There’s been plenty written about Sean McVay as a kind of generational wunderkind, and while some of that is our own tendency to fall in love with certain narratives and performative gestures (He memorized the opponent’s roster!