Re: In McVay's own words (from his presser) ALL THAT MATTERS

Quote
AlbaNY_Ram
"Yeah, I mean they were basically playing zero coverage. They had 11 guys in the box and you're short in the run game, there's unblocked players. We felt like being able to run a couple of those bootlegs, you certainly don't want to have an incompletion like we did on the second down, but we are an aggressive team. We wanted to close the game out right there. You don't want to get too risky, but the confidence that we have in our players, we felt like changing the launch point and running kind of the boot passes where somebody's sliding across the formation was a good opportunity to be able to out-flank the edge, out-leverage a guy that's responsible for the tight end or for (WR) Robert (Woods) like we did on the first down play in man coverage. That was what we felt like was going to be the best percentage there, just because they're playing with nobody in the middle of the field. They dropped the 11th guy down in to the box and you're short in the run game and basically it becomes tackling practice for a defense."

[ramsrule.com]