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

What this thrilling finish means for the team, and Stetson Bennett.

Sometimes you have to take a punch to get yourself back up off the canvas and fight harder. Even as he returned to the pocket, this was not an easy game for Stetson Bennett. He was back in the place of his last NFL memories. He was forced to relive a four of nine completion, three interception performance against the Denver Broncos defense in 2023 all over again. But this time, he threw fourth interceptions, and barely avoided throwing a fifth interception.

And after one game, following an absence from professional football, some are proclaiming his future, his career, and his relevancy on the Rams roster to be over. Apparently, it's one and done. I argue a different outcome from the young quarterback. In this game, he had to face adversity, his fears, and his demons. But he did not do so alone. You could see it from his teammates. The defensive never gave up on him. His offensive line never gave up on him. His receivers and running backs never gave up on him.

Most importantly, his coaches never gave up on him.

I understand. If you have never had the type of friendships that provided those special type of people in your life when all your chips were down, then it's easy to scoff at a young quarterback and call for his NFL career to end. And right now, many are doing so.

But expensive lessons are valuable lessons. And the value is not in trashing the bad experiences, but in growing and learning from them.

Conclusion: Finishing this game on such an uptick could carry over into the season

Coach Sean McVay gave no indications that the team needed to look elsewhere for quarterback talent. He made no suggestion that the team is lacking in the quarterback room. In many ways, he had plenty of confidence in his quarterback.

I am not the only one to see positives from this game. Around the NFL writer Nick Shook wrote a solid piece that highlighted the fact that it was Bennett's winner's mentality, and not four interceptions, that should be what fans and analysts take away from his first game in nearly a year.

And when the instincts kicked in, he was back to the two-time NCAA Championship-winning quarterback out of Georgia:

I get it. It's a data-driven world, and the raw data from Game 1 of the LA Rams preseason was not overwhelming proof that Stetson Bennett can hack it in the NFL. But Sean McVay gave no indication that the sky is falling. In fact, after preseason, we will likely not see or hear about Stetson Bennett until 2025.

Sometimes we kick up more dust than we should. Sometimes we find the solution simply by waiting for the solution to present itself. Even as QB Stetson Bennett may not be prepared to take over and lead the Rams to Super Bowl LIX, is any quarterback currently available capable of doing so? If you wish to spend hours creating 'what if . . .?' scenarios over the Rams quarterback situation, have at it.