3 reasons Rams Sean McVay, not Doug Pederson should be NFL Coach of the Year

Let’s make no bones about it, as Jeff Fisher was a relic and out of touch with the modern passing game, Sean McVay is not.

He gets it, and thankfully for Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff, he gets McVay.

And they all lived happily ever after.

There’s a lot more to this story, and if you watched the seven games Goff started last season, the reviews weren’t just bad, they were apocalyptic, and with fair reason.

With nine games in the books of the 2016 regular season, the Cal rookie and number #1 overall draft pick would enter and look not just lost, but completely upside down and too often shell shocked.

If he wasn’t a bust by season’s end, he was sure trending towards it.

Worse, on the other coast, optimism was sky high for the second overall pick right behind Goff. Carson Wentz looked better and was playing better, and still was until his injury, ironic enough, against the Rams in the Coliseum.

McVay has changed that.

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The Rams, who were at the bottom of the NFL statistics ledger for too many seasons, are no longer. And Jared Goff, who was being labeled a “bust” is also no longer.

That’s all McVay. Right guy, right time.

As good as the Rams have been in 2017, 10 wins thus far good, fans should be most relieved that LA’s first year head coach solved what may have been a draft night catastrophe. He got Goff to begin playing like the top overall draft pick he was.

When all is said and done, that may be his biggest accomplishment in year one.