Is McVay the Prodigy the next Magnus Carlsen?

8+ wins would be as incredible to me as to you. God knows this team is overcoming deep-running structural problems, and I think McVay is the guy. He's young, yeah. He's a baby. But he just seems so flexible, so adaptable, that it reminds me just a little of chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen.

Magnus hit all his milestones roughly 10 years before the other established chess pros, and proved everyone wrong that he really was ready to hang tough with the grandmasters as a young teen of 13 years. He shows deep mastery of strategy and the endgame, very much like 30 or 40 year old veterans, and a whip-quick flexibility even when he's at a disadvantage. I still remember him fighting back to even, vs. the great Russian prodigy Karjakin last year.

So far, McVay's star is on the rise. He seems to have situational brilliance, and a certain confidence and elan that just isn't found in 31 year olds at this level. Nothing (right now) appears to be too complicated for him to grasp, even these offseason signings, setting rookie expectation and contract maneuvers that he's never dealt with before as a head coach.

We'll see if his mental flexibility continues to be "next level", or if he's just another "Peter principle" Rams coach: rising to the "level of incompetence".