Young Sean McVay has an old football soul

Young Sean McVay has an old football soul

By Mike Waldner, Columnist

A lot of people scratched their heads when the Rams went young and hired Sean McVay as their coach.

McVay was a dozen days short of his 31st birthday, making him the youngest coach in the modern era of the NFL, which apparently is loosely defined as since the leather helmet years.

It was easy to dismiss this as just another in a series of give-me-a-break decisions leading to an active run of 12 seasons without a winning record.

What prompted Rams president Kevin Demoff and general manager Les Snead to put their trust in a child?

South Bay Athletic Club members, a take-no-prisoners group of veteran observers, had an opportunity to hear for themselves in June when McVay and Snead visited the luncheon group in Redondo Beach.

In about four minutes, speaking off the cuff in his rapid-fire, stream-of-consciousness manner, McVay wowed his audience, no doubt just as he captured Demoff and Snead.

“Real quick, before we open it up for questions, I wanted to just talk about some of the core things and beliefs that we want to operate with,” he said.

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