LA Rams QB Stafford’s Colin Cowherd interview: quiet confidence

The LA Rams welcomed QB Matthew Stafford and he immediately has been making the NFL talk show rounds, and of course, the rounds include showing up for a chat with Colin Cowherd. The dialogue is, of course, of limited value in terms of what he could say about what the Rams will do with him. That information as of yet still exists on whiteboards and Xs and Os inside the mind of head coach Sean McVay.

What we do glean from their little tete-a-tete banter is a tad more insight about the differences between in-game decisions and scenarios between where Matthew Stafford came from, as opposed to where Matthew Stafford is now going.

Stafford comes off as a quarterback who is looking for success, but who isn’t going to be dazzled by the glitz and glamor of life in Hollywood’s backyard. That’s good because he is a daughter-daddy. Matthew and his wife Kelly have four daughters: Their eldest are twins Chandler and Sawyer, Hunter, and their youngest Tyler.

He also exudes understated quiet confidence such as when Cowherd asks him about learning a new playbook and while he admits there will be a learning curve, he confidently replies:

"“I have been doing this a little bit of time now in the NFL.”"

It’s a calming, reassuring tone, not at all braggadocio.

Certainly, that was music to Rams fans’ ears, just as when he says he’s OK with handing the ball off in the fourth quarter to salt away a win if that’s what it requires to secure a victory. That’s good, but don’t look for much of that. Even with a lead, LA Rams head coach Sean McVay is not one to truly take his foot off the gas.

Speaking about McVay, when Cowherd points out that head coach McVay likes to move the pocket around a lot during a game and he’ll be asked to be nimble, his response is that he’s not afraid to move around a bit, and likes that defenses won’t be able to pinpoint where he will set up.

"“To be honest with you, I don’t care how the wins come, as long as they come, ” Stafford replied. “I’m excited to do everything that’s asked of me, whatever we need to do to win”."

Is this hard-hitting journalism? Did you expect the conversation to migrate into the audible package that Stafford would get to unload this arm-cannon on unsuspecting defenses?  Did you expect detailed analysis by Stafford over who he would like the Rams to sign in free agency, or to critique the current roster? This was Colin Cowherd. We were lucky that it stayed on the topic over football. Come to think of it, it moved over to baseball pretty quickly, didn’t it?

This is as good as it can get with Colin Cowherd interviews. Understated, quiet confidence. That’s my take-away from his Cowherd talk. And that’s thumb’s up, stock up.