Sean McVay received a Tremendous Bowl final season with Matthew Stafford, however the Rams’ coach nonetheless laments a sure side of the commerce that despatched Stafford to Los Angeles.
McVay expressed remorse for the way he dealt with the scenario along with his quarterback on the time, former No. 1 total choose Jared Goff.
“The one factor that harm me is that I might by no means need something to be misunderstood about my appreciation, my respect for Jared,” McVay stated on the “Open Mike” podcast. “Was it a tricky resolution? Sure. Have been there some issues that I may’ve dealt with higher by way of the readability supplied for him? Little doubt.”
In Jan. 2021, the Rams dealt Goff and a trio of draft picks to the Lions in a blockbuster commerce that landed Stafford. In his first season out west, Stafford led the Rams to a Tremendous Bowl; Goff, in the meantime, wallowed in Detroit, because the Lions completed 3-13-1.
Days earlier than the Rams acquired Stafford, McVay and his soon-to-be quarterback occurred to be vacationing on the identical resort in Cabo. Just a few days after their respective holidays ended, Stafford had a brand new residence.
“So all in all, largest factor I remorse, (not) having the ability to sit down, look (Goff) within the eye and be capable of talk form of the place we're, what we had been going to attempt to do shifting ahead,” McVay stated.
“… If I had it over once more, what I might do is, earlier than I had even gone to Cabo, when there was a chance of, alright, if Matthew Stafford’s out there, if there’s different quarterbacks out there, that will be one thing that we might discover — you sit down with him, you look him within the eye, you inform him that as a substitute of calling him and establishing a gathering the place that was my intention after I obtained again from Cabo.”
McVay famous that the commerce materialized in 24-36 hours, relatively than the week-long span that he initially anticipated.
In 4 years beneath McVay, Goff was a two-time Professional Bowler and led the Rams to a Tremendous Bowl look in 2019.
“I feel the additional we get away, the extra appreciation that we’ll have for the nice 4 years that we did have collectively, as a result of there have been plenty of actually good occasions,” McVay stated. “… And I want I’d dealt with (the commerce) higher as a frontrunner for him.”
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