Rams coach Sean McVay has put an finish to hypothesis that he’ll stroll away from attempting to defend the Tremendous Bowl and land a TV job.
In a tweet Friday, ESPN reporter Adam Shifter mentioned McVeigh instructed the community that he’s not pursuing broadcast alternatives and that he’s dedicated to coaching the Rams in 2023.
It got here two weeks after the 36-year-old put up the guesswork by contemplating a pre-Tremendous Bowl press convention about in search of a “steadiness” between the calls for of coaching and his need to start out a household with fiancée Veronika Khomyn.
He missed a chance to decide to the Rams the day after their Tremendous Bowl victory when he instructed a Los Angeles columnist “we’ll see” about coaching subsequent season.
Extra emphatic, however not definitive, was what McVeigh mentioned on the Rams’ Championship rally and rally exterior the Colosseum on February 16.
On that day, McVeigh gave followers the impression he had sparked up subsequent season by chanting “Deliver it again!” And urging defensive intervention Aaron Donald to specific his need to pursue one other match.
Friday’s ESPN report sounded extra particular.
Now it could be a guess as to how a lot the Rams pays to maintain McVeigh joyful after main the staff to his first Tremendous Bowl win as a staff in Los Angeles, his second Tremendous Bowl look in 4 seasons and his fifth profitable season since. He turned a head coach on the age of 30 in 2017.
There was no instant announcement of a brand new contract for McVay, who has a two-season extension signed in 2019 making him the sixth coach within the NFL to earn $8.5 million a 12 months.
The earlier extension was introduced in July after the Rams’ Tremendous Bowl LIII loss to the New England Patriots, on the identical time Basic Supervisor Les Snead obtained an extension.
Friday’s growth got here at a time when the NFL’s broadcast teams had been as unstable because the teaching employees, with Troy Aikman anticipated to maneuver from Fox to ESPN for “Monday Evening Soccer,” ensuing within the recreation of musical mics.
McVeigh was reportedly scheduled to fulfill with Amazon subsequent week over the suspension of soccer Thursday evening.
The Rams’ official Twitter account responded to the ESPN report by posting a GIF of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, within the “Wolf of Wall Avenue,” frightening employees ire by asserting “I am not leaving.”
– Rams Los Angeles (RamsNFL) February 26, 2023
