5 huge talking points from Rams' preseason victory over the Cowboys

If you have the chance to watch or listen to any football discussions that feature LA Rams Head Coach Sean McVay, stop what you are doing and listen in, because you are bound to learn a thing or two or three from the guy. He says more relevant information about the Rams and football in general in one minute than you will hear in 30 minutes of discussion about the Rams between NFL analysts, pundits, or talking heads.

So in honor of Coach McVay, and his abundant gift of football gab, let's try to hone in on a few post-game talking points that the Duke of Deliberation and Discourse would pose if you had the opportunity to speak with him, one-on-one, after the team's preseason win against the Dallas Cowboys.

For starters, let's view the game through the lens of a Rams coach. Yes, there were plenty of mistakes made in the game. But from a coach's view, almost all are correctable, coachable, fixable. We can fret and protest the four interceptions, but in a preseason game that is designed to be an experimental lab of trying to make plays, and then correcting mistakes after the fact through video study and reinforcing better decision-making, even the gaffes in the game were in line with what Coach McVay wanted to see from his players.

McVay was having fun in this one. Just check out his commentary about rookie defensive tackle Tyler Davis getting a huge tackle for a loss on this extract from the game:

And so it goes. This was a low scoring game that was still quite thrilling. The Rams had four giveaways, all interceptions thrown by rusty second-year quarterback Stetson Bennett. But the Rams stuck with Bennett, and Bennett stuck in there. It was Stetson Bennett who threw the game-winning touchdown to seldom-seen tight end Miller Forristall as time ran out to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Based on his pre-game comments to Bennett, it's almost as though Coach McVay knew that Bennett would struggle and that he would only find success, and reclaim his confidence if he kept throwing the football. But there are several other talking points from the Rams' victory that we will address as well: