TAMPA — Sean McVay was in sweats for the long overnight flight back to California and recalled a conversation he and I had as his Rams were wrapping the offseason program and breaking for summer. Just then, his quarterback came up the tunnel, and the Rams’ coach, who turns 36 Monday, smiled and told Matthew Stafford we were recalling a certain moniker he’d given his team captain seven months ago.
Stafford knew the one.
“To me, when you just see that dude, in crunch time, divisional game, going on the road, they tie it up after you have a huge lead, no flinch, no blink?” McVay said, standing on a wall halfway between the locker room and the team bus. “He was a bad mother------ in that situation.”
