Is Rams head coach Sean McVay making an error sticking with Sean Mannion?

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay looks to be sticking by backup quarterback Sean Mannion.

Word is Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay is totes cool with backup quarterback Sean Mannion.

Yes, THAT Sean Mannion.

Ok, I can see that. After all, he’s been in the league going on four years, and has been in McVay’s camp now going on two seasons. If you’re doing the math, it should all add up, right?

Right?

Like 2+2=7.5?
Uhh, wrong.

So, maybe the Rams head coach, who was the 2017 NFL Coach of the Year, is one of those creatures of habit. The kind of guy who drives the same way to work every day, begins game day with the same breakfast, and wears the same socks for the next game if his team won the previous week.

Yeah, I can buy that.

I mean, a passer rating of 49.9 over three preseason games should count for something, even if he only played the first half in each of those exhibition games.

But McVay is all good it would seem.

“Yeah, you feel good.” the Rams coach told reporters on Tuesday.

He continues.

"“I think we’ll continue to evaluate things moving forward. I think that it’s been up and down, but I think it’s tough because the sample size is so small.”"

That’s a fair observation. But can I get a show of hands from anybody who won’t begin to immediately hyperventilate should the unthinkable happen, and Jared Goff goes down for more than a few plays?

Seriously besides McVay, who’s down for that scenario, who feels good about that?

I’m the first to give McVay the benefit of the doubt. After all, he does see Mannion each and every day going back to last season, so maybe he’s seen something in the likely backup to Goff, that he hasn’t shown in those exhibition games.

Currently, the best hope is that Goff stays healthy for the entire season, thus keeping Mannion in a ball cap holding a clipboard.

Which is the ONLY thing fans will feel good about when it comes to Mannion.