Rams Coach McVay said plenty about QB Stetson Bennett, and you may not like it

After the dust settled, McVay speaks again about his quarterback

If you think that Coach McVay closed his eyes to the game performance of his young quarterback, he didn't. He saw what we saw, and his post-game comments were intended to ensure that he was not publicly ripping into his quarterback's performance before both he and the coaching staff had the opportunity to dig into what went wrong, and what went right, in the game.

For those fans who want the hammer to fall on Bennett, it's still possible. What Coach McVay had to say after the game mirrored what many of the fans were saying. For the time being, the coaching staff is still in the evaluation process.

Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio quoted Coach McVay after Tuesday's practice, and was able to pen these comments from the coach:

"Yeah, I think we still have to be able to see some more body of work.

What I did like was what I mentioned to you, to be able to stay together. That’s a tough deal when you have the ball [and] when you turn it over a handful of times. It was [a tough situation]. He (Stetson Bennett) kind of mentioned it in the postgame [interviews] to you guys where he thought he was seeing some things and then the mistakes ended up being pretty costly but he just kept playing. He kept fighting.

The guys kept believing around him. I was really impressed with the resilience that he demonstrated. We do need to take better care of the football. That is a very important thing. All of those are very correctable and really in a lot of them, it’s not necessarily with the exception

Well, a couple of them were bad decisions and then a couple of them were just missed the way that you want to throw, make the type of layered throw. but you’re going to the right spot. All things that we can learn from. He has to continue to improve and we’re still in evaluation mode."

- Coach McVay

One game. That is not enough data to decide the fate of a young man's NFL career. And that is how I see it too. It could be that in 2024, we see the opposite of what we witnessed in 2023. Then, we had a quarterback who started hot, but regressed. Perhaps this season we will witness a quarterback who struggles out of the gates, but who improves rapidly.

For now, I'm only seeing one game, and one data point. A trend needs two data points. Let's see how the team fares in their next preseason game.

And as always, thank you so much for reading.