Not that the Rams<\/a>\u2019 ninth-year coach planned to celebrate.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s a good birthday?\u201d he said on Friday. \u201cWhen I\u2019m working on my birthday \u2014 and if I\u2019m working next week.<\/p>\n \u201cThat would be a hell of a birthday. That\u2019s the only present I want.\u201d<\/p>\n McVay was busy this week preparing for Sunday\u2019s NFC championship game<\/a> against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field.<\/p>\n Share via Close extra sharing options <\/p>\n Gary Klein breaks down what to watch for Sunday when the Rams face the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC championship game.<\/p>\n After splitting their NFC West games this season, they will meet for a third time to determine who will represent the conference in Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n McVay is 2-0 in NFC championship games, having led the Rams past the New Orleans Saints<\/a> in the 2018 playoffs and past the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> in the 2021 playoffs.<\/p>\n The Rams and Seahawks are playing for the third time. That\u2019s nothing new for McVay.<\/p>\n The Rams have been in this situation twice before \u2014 and both times they advanced.<\/p>\n In the 2020 season, the Rams and Seahawks split their NFC West games, and the Rams won a wild-card game, 30-20, at Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks: How to watch, start time, odds and prediction Sean McVay turned 40 on Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[324,7,102557,1014,58,2444,2611,3687,64577,112,102558,6,10693,319,29207,424,238,189,8138,16165,149],"class_list":["post-705032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-conference","tag-football","tag-good-birthday","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-mcvay","tag-next-week","tag-nfc-championship","tag-nfc-west-game","tag-nfl","tag-odd","tag-playoff","tag-ram","tag-rams","tag-seahawks","tag-season","tag-stadium","tag-super-bowl-lx","tag-time"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115958369282815427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705032","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=705032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769384182_517_.jpeg\")
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