2 SBs in 5 seasons? Where’s the love for LA Rams HC Sean McVay?

When LA Rams head coach Sean McVay led his team to compete in the Super Bowl in 2019 after just his second NFL season, his team finished with a record of 13-3.  Curiously, the reaction of many NFL fans, analysts, pundits, and sportscasters was fairly unanimous:

“Yeah, but he didn’t win, did he?”

Now LA Rams head coach Seam McVay just led his team to compete in the Super Bowl in 2022 after his fifth NFL season, a season where his team finished with a 12-5 record. The LA Rams won Super Bowl LVI, by the way, Still, the reactions of many NFL fans, analysts, pundits, and sportscasters are a bit too quiet about McVay and the current path he and his coaching staff are on.

Okay, so where is McVay getting snubbed?  For starters, he was not even among Pro Football Focus’s Top-10 NFL head coaches in 2022. Need more proof? LA Rams HC Sean McVay did not get a single vote for NFL Coach of the Year:

So let’s break it down for you. Based on the track record of the past five NFL seasons:

The LA Rams have had winning seasons 100 percent of the time
The LA Rams make the NFL playoffs 80 percent of the time
The LA Rams compete in the Super Bowl 40 percent of the time
The LA Rams have a 70 percent win rate in postseason play
The LA Rams win the Super Bowl 20 percent of the time.

This is not hyperbole. It’s not cherry-picking. It’s the history of the LA Rams’ track record under head coach Sean McVay. And yet, there is not much being said about the accomplishments of the head coach of the LA Rams over such a short period of time.

No brag, just fact

Sure, we have to grin and bear it when an NFL rookie claims that after one good season,

he can be better than LA Rams legendary

Aaron Donald. Nobody bats an eyelash at that foolishness. But after five seasons with unprecedented NFL success, the accolades for Coach McVay seem to be on the slow-moving barge arriving by way of Cape Horn.

Let’s revisit why the LA Rams are so very special:

After winning just four games in 2016, the team won 11 games in 2017 with minor roster changes.
This team played to a 9-7 record with the 31st-ranked offensive line in 2019
This team won a Wildcard Round in the 2020 NFL Playoffs behind a quarterback with a busted-up throwing thumb.
This team won three playoff games, and Super Bowl LVI, behind a veteran quarterback who had never won a playoff before in his 12-year NFL career.
This team has never made a selection in the first round of any NFL Draft while Sean McVay has been the head coach.

Now stop. Pause. Drink this all in.

Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. Occasionally, the intensity of winning the next season, the next game, blinds us to just what this team has accomplished. Hopefully, this will remind those who may have let some of the Rams’ so-very-impressive deeds just how good this head coach is.

“Yeah, but he didn’t win, did he?”

Yes, yes he did as a matter of fact.