McVay is effectively giving us a bye week and I'm totally in favor.
The downside is we may lose to the 9ers and that is sucky.
The upside is we go into a play off game fully rested and healthy.
PLUS, we give valuable playing time to players that we may need moving forward.
What McVay has done is removed emotion from the equation and that takes balls and confidence.
This is all about winning the big one, not about petty local rivalries, there will be plenty of time to do that over the coming years.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.