{"id":799571,"date":"2026-03-08T03:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/799571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:15:36","slug":"sean-mcvay-says-not-neccessarily-married-to-play-calling-for-rams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/799571\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McVay says \u201cnot neccessarily married\u201d to play calling for Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean McVay has been the offensive play caller for the Los Angeles Rams since he became their head coach in 2017, and in that time he\u2019s helped lead some of the best offenses in the league (including in 2025), however the head coach earlier this week<\/a> indicated that calling plays, is \u201cnot necessarily\u201d a requirement for him leading the Rams.<\/p>\n

McVay was asked about his new coaching staff in a press conference earlier this week, and he spoke about some of the changes, including appointments of new offensive coordinator with Mike LaFluer taking his talents to the Arizona Cardinals after being in L.A. the last couple seasons.<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s Sarah Barshop asked McVay about those changes, and any potential play calling opportunities for new coaches this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019m gonna call defense next year\u2026nah, I\u2019m kidding, yes, I\u2019ll call (offensive) plays next year. But\u2026here\u2019s what I will say, Sarah, you know, I think one of the best parts is is that I think they\u2019ll be opportunities in the preseason for guys to be able to do that, Dave (Ragone) and Nate (Scheelhaase); obviously Chris (Shula) continues to grow as a great coach on the defensive side of the ball\u2026I\u2019ve really just enjoyed being a coach and having some freedom. I\u2019ve always loved calling plays, I\u2019m not necessarily married to always doing it, but that is the plan. To continue to do that, until you guys say I should pass if off to someone else. What do you think about that Gary (Klein)?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bit of a tongue and cheek interaction with McVay laughing at his own answer, and some others on the call chuckling as well, but the actual response is serious, if true.<\/p>\n

McVay is saying that if those around him such as Les Snead and others within the Rams\u2019 organization feel that his team could be better with someone else calling the plays, then McVay is open to it.<\/p>\n

Now would McVay actually coach the Rams while giving up play calling duties? According to McVay, he would, but will that ever happen?<\/p>\n

We may never know, but based on McVay\u2019s response, it\u2019s pretty clear the outstanding head coach has given the scenario some thought.<\/p>\n

That being said, if one of McVay\u2019s best strengths is his play calling, it wouldn\u2019t make sense to strip him of that, then again, sometimes change is needed, and it\u2019s ideal for the Rams that McVay isn\u2019t naive enough to think that he\u2019ll be calling plays for the Rams forever.<\/p>\n

In fact, McVay just opened the door on the possibility that there could be a time where he gives up offensive play calling, but keeps his role as head coach. That may not mean anything now, but it could be substantial in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean McVay has been the offensive play caller for the Los Angeles Rams since he became their head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-799571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116191384273606135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799571","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=799571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}