Sean McVay, Rams ready to pop perception right in the kisser

Sean McVay, Rams ready to pop perception right in the kisser

By JEFF MILLER

IRVINE – He was vacationing with his girlfriend in Europe.

Barcelona, specifically, and then Paris.

Along the way, according to Sean McVay, he pulled out his Rams playbook.

Remember, he was with his girlfriend. On vacation. In Paris. A place where X’s and O’s are supposed to mean hugs and kisses, for starters.
The City of Lights probably flickered at the very sight. McVay’s girlfriend must have blinked. Then she asked him to please put away the NFL long enough for a little TLC.

“We’ve joked that, you know, we’ve got no life skills,” Rams general manager Les Snead said Thursday when asked about his rookie head coach. “But we can do football.”

Let’s hope so, because this franchise, which most recently made the playoffs in 2004, has spit out 13 consecutive non-winning seasons, spit them out like anything that tastes especially sour.

Now Snead has handed over the tattered reins to the youngest head coach in modern NFL history, entrusting with his own tenuous future a man who never before has been a head coach at any level, a man still at an age – 31 – where it doesn’t sound strange to have a girlfriend.

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