The next Super Bowl will be held in Los Angeles. And while it's still early days this season, the odds aren't half-bad that, for one team, the big game will be a home game. The rams are a, maybe the — premier NFL franchise: blue chip; gold standard. This preseason, we were invited inside their huddle, so to speak. We found an organization that wins with contradictions: prudence and gunslinging. Change and continuity. Brawn, yes, but also brain. And the rams are wound tightly on the team's tightly wound leader, Sean McVay. In the decade since the Rams made McVay the youngest head coach in NFL history, he's become a generational talent, pacing toward the best ever - Lombardi, Shula, Belichick – but that push comes at a price.Sean McVay: Oh, I'm a lot tormented.Jon Wertheim: You're a lot tor-- what-- what's-- what's tormenting you-- right now?Sean McVay: The practice that we just had. That's why I'm in such a great mood.That practice, a month before the NFL season, seemed typical to us, but Rams coach Sean McVay was dissatisfied in the extreme. Sean McVay: It's why, honestly, I'm not really here right now.Jon Wertheim: You say you're not really here right now.
Sean McVay: That's right.Jon Wertheim: Your mind is still on that practice.Sean McVay: Totally. Yeah. I feel rude right now with you, you deserve more attention than what I'm capable of giving right now and I feel bad about that.
