Extending LA Rams Les Snead, Sean McVay is right move at wrong time

So why is this poorly timed?

There is a right time, and a wrong time, to sit down at the negotiation table. If the LA Rams have McVay under contract through the 2023 season, then this is not about a contract negotiation to keep him with the team, as it is a contract renegotiation to raise his compensation significantly to keep him with the team.

And, in my honest opinion, that can happen after a few other matters are addressed. Why?

Well, it’s just too soon after trading away WR Robert Woods. It’s just poorly timed in terms of reassembling the coaching staff, restocking the roster, and setting this team up for the 2022 NFL season. It’s like scheduling a wedding ceremony to fall mere days after a funeral.

It’s all well-intended. It’s something that makes sense to do and is right to accomplish. It’s just that the timing could be a bit better.

I think that the combination of GM Les Snead and HC Sean McVay is what makes this team so successful. Les Snead has an incredible knack for turning over every stone and working all slots on the roster, to assemble the absolute best chance of winning in any given scenario. And Sean McVay has the ability to communicate what he wants to happen on the football field to his players and then assemble the best coaching staff in the NFL to ensure that they can deliver that vision each and every play on the football field.

You never should buy your spouse a new car on your honeymoon. You should not commit to anything that requires a thoughtful and objective process in the midst of an emotionally charged moment. I love what both GM Les Snead and HC Sean McVay bring to the LA Rams. Their combined efforts have brought prolonged success from the moment that they joined forces, and there is realistically no end in sight.

But give us all a moment or two to adapt to losing fan-favorite WR Robert Woods, veteran OLB Von Miller, the retirement of Andrew Whitworth, and resolve wherever Odell Beckham Jr. will play in 2022. That is all simply enough to process, for now.

What do you think? Too soon to re-up Snead and McVay? Or is the timing just right?