In what was by far the most shocking move of the NFL draft, the Rams selected Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson \u2014 a player many analysts considered a second-round pick.<\/p>\n
While the move was confounding at best, Snead tried his best to sound optimistic when speaking with the media late Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s been a process that started in the offseason, per se, especially when [head coach] Sean [McVay] and the coaching staff got involved,\u201d Snead said when asked when they knew Alabama QB Ty Simpson was their selection. \u201cThat process goes all the way up until even into the latter parts of last week. Then at that point in time, like I\u2019ve mentioned here, the sea is going to shape the 13th pick you. You had to fall.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, one person didn\u2019t appear as optimistic as Snead: head coach Sean McVay.<\/p>\n
In a video that\u2019s now gone viral, McVay showed shockingly little enthusiasm when discussing Simpson. He seemed annoyed for most of the press conference, rarely smiling and lacking the normal zeal and passion he usually speaks with.<\/p>\n
But, there was one thing McVay made sure everyone in attendance knew: this is still reigning MVP Matthew Stafford\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a lot of players that we liked but when you do look at it, I think the thing you liked about the body of work is\u2026let\u2019s make one thing clear, this is Matthew\u2019s team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what was by far the most shocking move of the NFL draft, the Rams selected Alabama quarterback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[6190,346,7,118,110,922,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-873428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-arrowheadlines","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116459246977910359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873428","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=873428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}