von Daniel Kugler
From Super Bowl champion to disaster season. Zero hero.
Or to put it another way: Los Angeles Rams season.
After the franchise secured the title at their home SoFi Stadium in February, the franchise took to the dirt less than a year later and missed the playoffs by a score of 5-11 before the final day of the game.
It therefore seems logical that the Rams will test all the pieces of the puzzle of the roster and also the coaching team after the end of the season. So does the office of head coach Sean McVay, whose future in Hollywood likely hangs in the balance.
Sean McVay: Time’s up as Rams head coach?
“ESPN” refers to multiple sources who consistently report the 36-year-old will need some time off after the franchise’s final game of the season with the Seattle Seahawks (live Sunday from 10:20pm on ProSieben and ran.de) . to decide if he will return to the franchise in 2023.
McVay has therefore been pushing the decision back and forth and needs time to process everything that has transpired over the past year. And the consideration obviously isn’t limited to fieldwork.
Winning the Super Bowl, working in television, getting married, looking at his wife’s home country of Ukraine, being attacked, losing his grandfather, and then coaching a team that, having achieved the greatest possible success, fell far short of the expectations.
Too much to make a quick decision.
Regardless of the outcome of the game against the Seahawks, 2022 will be the first season since the Rams hired McVay as head coach in 2017, ending the franchise on a bad note.
With or without Sean McVay: The Los Angeles Rams face a tough offseason
The Super Bowl champ has been plagued with injuries all season. According to the report, this also hit the coach hard. McVay now needs time to recharge his batteries and see if he can muster the energy to continue as coach next season.
The Rams, meanwhile, with or without McVay, have some sensitive decisions to make in the offseason. So the franchise is in the next draft without its first pick.
Furthermore, the team is just below the salary cap for next season, so it will be difficult to implement major personnel changes. Additionally, offensive coordinator Liam Coen will return to his old job in the same capacity at the Kentucky college that he last held in 2021.
And McVay could now try his luck outside of the NFL in the long run.
Sean McVay: future TV expert?
So McVay should have several options on the table for his future: It could attract interest from broadcasters — as it did last season in the form of streaming service Amazon — but many of those positions are already filled for next season.
McVay at least made it clear before the season’s final game that part of the Networks’ interest in him stems from the fact that he “hasn’t run away from the decision to state that this is something that interests me.”
In Los Angeles, McVay signed a contract extension through the 2026 season just before the season, which, according to “Sportico”, should bring him $14 million per season.
If McVay were to step down, however, he would remain with Los Angeles, just as Sean Payton is with the New Orleans Saints, who the franchise must release for talks with other teams.
According to the New York Post, Amazon also offered him a five-year, $100 million contract as a television analyst after he won the title with the Rams.
