McVay returning to Rams, but what does it all mean?
In my opinion, Sean McVay, who has decided to return as coach of the Rams, rather than being touted as such an elite coach, should be seen as closer to the bottom of the coaching pile.
After losing one Super Bowl, he and ownership decided to buy their way to another. He took a good, young QB (Jared Goff, whom he nearly ruined) and threw him on what looked like a trash heap in Detroit, and went out to buy the best team money could.
So they won a Super Bowl. So what? What do they have now? A bunch of aging vets, no picks from now until forever, and a coach who doesn’t seem to have a clue how to sign and develop young players.
Look at Doug Pederson in Jacksonville, and what he has done with a bunch of unknowns. A whole lot better than the pathetic Rams.
Goff is flourishing in Detroit. Let McVay go on his merry way, leaving the Rams in ruins.
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So Sean McVay has come to his senses. Bad news: Fans can look forward to another “bottom feeder” season. Good news: more Chunky Soup commercials! Richard Whorton Studio City
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So, Sean McVay has decided to pursue his “beautiful torment” and continue as Rams coach. I’m sure Rams fans are delighted with his decision, which is sure to also inspire the team. He’s good in my book, as long as he keeps his future priorities straight with the realization that in the supermarket of life, sports is in the toy department.
Marty Zweben Palos Verdes Estates
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Anne Beaty Los Angeles
Kudos to Sean McVay for staying as the coach of the Rams after such a down season. A lot of people would have bailed and taken the easy analyst money so congrats, Sean, for “playing it back” for us Rams fans. Ken Blake
Brea
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Why is Sean McVay always praised as being one of the greatest coaches? Sure he won a Super Bowl but so did Don McCafferty. The Rams battle cry this year was “Run it Back.” They did, to 2016.
Ruben Hernandez
El Monte
Cotton Bowl repeat
How smart is it to bet on sports? If you took TCU against someone willing to give you 57 points, you lost. Bruce Janger Santa Monica
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Like any casual fan I enjoyed watching the total domination of the Georgia football team in its national championship triumph over TCU. The turnoff?
Postgame cigars all around.
Countless teenage boys this week went hunting for smokes, because they saw the glamorous UGA football players enjoying their postgame smokes.
Many of those will get hooked on tobacco, and sometime down the road will perish as a direct result.
Whose idea was it to roll out the stogies?
Whatever happened to sports heroes as role models?
Tad Daley Los Angeles
Blame it on the Grinch
Lincoln Riley’s loyalty to Alex Grinch, while admirable, is indefensible. Giving Grinch passes for the Utah regular-season loss and the Pac-12 title game disaster, the Cotton Bowl debacle in Dallas should have been his Waterloo. Inexplicably failing to stop Tulane’s mediocre quarterback on two long fourth downs on the final drive, turning Michael Pratt into Vince Young, was simply unforgivable.
Mark S. Roth
Los Angeles
Blue in the face
I was wrong. I really thought the same management team that took the money from cable TV and essentially blacked out their fans for years would figure they are already on the hook for another $22.5 million and still desperately need pitching. They’d figure fans will forgive if Trevor Bauer produces, right? Turns out they don’t have the courage to do either.
Jeff Heister Chatsworth
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Love him or hate him, which comes with the job of sports columnist, Dylan Hernández is pretty fearless on the pages of The Times. Calling Stan Kasten shameless and Mark Walter a coward will certainly not get him special access to the Dodgers, and he regularly calls it like he sees it. Keep it up, sir.
Mike McNiff Costa Mesa
Getting pushed around
Is it the NFL or the NRL (National Rugby League)? The NFL should disallow letting players push a running back/quarterback across the line to gain. The offensive line should be responsible for moving the defensive line back, not 900 pounds of players pushing them.
Russell Morgan Carson
Where’s the golf coverage?
Nearly 10% of our population plays and watches golf. NBC, CBS, TNT, ESPN, Fox and Golf Channel air it. The Times usually “devotes” one or two inches to it, hidden in its miscellaneous The Day in Sports. Pro tournaments are played nearly every week and unless it is a so-called major, you have no commentary or leaderboard, and only a quick mention of a couple of players who are in the lead. Golf fans are basically being ignored. Sandy Wilk
Encino
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Warrior’s farewell
Charles White was a warrior, worth the price of admission, one tough character, Mr. Student Body right/left, Heisman role model, and enshrined forever at the peristyle end. My favorite USC football player. R.I.P.
David Marshall Santa Monica
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