{"id":22575,"date":"2025-05-04T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/22575\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:21:23","slug":"rams-sean-mcvay-hoping-matthew-stafford-plays-a-couple-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/22575\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams&#8217; Sean McVay hoping Matthew Stafford plays &#8216;a couple more years&#8217;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Rams and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/matthew-stafford\/\" title=\"Matthew Stafford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Stafford<\/a> are in a <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/rams-hc-sean-mcvay-says-he-s-been-sleeping-better-with-matthew-stafford-deal-done\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">year-to-year relationship<\/a>, but Sean McVay hopes it&#8217;s more than just one more run with the veteran quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a chance with him every time he&#8217;s at the switch, and love working with him. And I think he can play as long as he wants, but fortunately, I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s a couple more years,&#8221; McVay told Adam Schein on <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MadDogRadio\/status\/1918055326718324988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SiriusXM&#8217;s Mad Dog Sports Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford inked a <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/matthew-stafford-heading-back-to-rams-for-fifth-season-in-la\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/matthew-stafford-heading-back-to-rams-for-fifth-season-in-la\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revised contract<\/a> this offseason after similar talks took months to get done last offseason. The Rams allowed the 37-year-old quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/rams-grant-qb-matthew-stafford-s-camp-permission-to-talk-to-other-teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to seek a potential trade<\/a> &#8212; which included interest from the Las Vegas Raiders and New York Giants &#8212; but in the end, Stafford expressed his desire to always remain in L.A.<\/p>\n<p>McVay told Schein that the honest conversations with Stafford have allowed the two most important Rams employees to get closer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re able to have real conversations with people you love and care about, you can go one of two ways. You can either get further apart, or you can get closer,&#8221; McVay said. &#8220;And there is no question in my mind that he and I are closer than ever. There&#8217;s a lot of appreciation, there&#8217;s a lot of gratitude that we were able to work through some of those things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To ultimately, I heard (general manager) Les (Snead) say it, to renew the vows. And I think there is kind of a renewal of appreciation for the opportunity to continue to work together. It doesn&#8217;t go lost on me how fortunate I am to be able to work with somebody as special as he is, both mentally, physically, and more importantly what he means with how he moves as a man, and how he positively affects and influences his teammates and people he&#8217;s around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams and Matthew Stafford are in a year-to-year relationship, but Sean McVay hopes it&#8217;s more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[1227,7,1014,58,2444,2611,32,88,6,609,4267,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-22575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-matthew-stafford","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-no-minute","18":"tag-offseason-news","19":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114448360278368499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}