McVay ponders future, needs to prioritize household

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — As he enters the most important recreation of his skilled life adopted by the most important summer season of his private life, Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay frolicked Friday pondering what all of which means for his future.

McVay doesn’t but have the reply to the perfect work/life stability however he made it recognized throughout his crew’s last media availability earlier than Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl LVI that it’s one thing that has been on his thoughts.

Moments after answering a query by saying he “gained’t make it” if he’s teaching till he’s 60, McVay was requested why he didn’t suppose that may be the case. McVay, 36, began his response by saying he was joking however then gave a roughly 90-second reply on the opposite issues he needs to pursue in life.

“I like this a lot that it’s such a ardour however I additionally know that what I’ve seen from a few of my closest mates, whether or not it’s coaches and even a few of our gamers, I’m gonna be married this summer season, I wish to have a household and I feel with the ability to discover that stability but in addition have the ability to give the time obligatory,” McVay stated. “I’ve at all times had a dream about with the ability to be a father and I can’t predict the longer term, you understand? I jokingly say that.

“I don’t actually know. I do know I like soccer and I’m so invested on this factor and I’m within the second proper now. However in some unspecified time in the future, too, in the event you stated what would you like to have the ability to do? I need to have the ability to have a household and I need to have the ability to spend time with them.”

These ideas come in opposition to the backdrop of a number of sources telling ESPN’s Lindsey Thiry up to now and once more just lately that McVay has thought-about working as a tv analyst as an alternative choice to teaching.

In January, a number of league executives instructed to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler that McVay may observe an analogous teaching/broadcasting path to Jon Gruden, whom McVay coached underneath in Tampa Bay in 2008, and take a break from teaching for a profitable TV job.

One NFC govt instructed Fowler, “I feel he’s making an attempt to get that Tremendous Bowl ring rapidly so then he can have choices. … If he needs to do TV for some time, he’d be nice at it and might at all times return and coach any crew he needs after that.”

The New York Publish reported Thursday that tv executives would have curiosity in McVay if that was one thing he wished to pursue, noting “it isn’t clear but if he would wish to do it.”

The lure of beginning a household is one thing McVay was clear about Friday. He and fiancée Veronika Khomyn have been initially slated to get married within the south of France in 2020 after which in Southern California final 12 months however have postponed their nuptials each occasions for pandemic-related causes.

McVay’s ideas on household run deep and he supplied some perspective on that when speaking about his personal childhood experiences. He stated Friday that his father Tim would have been “an unbelievable coach” however by no means pursued it severely as a result of he noticed the time it meant he could be away after observing his father, John McVay, work as the top coach of the New York Giants and common supervisor of the San Francisco 49ers.

“I additionally know the way a lot time is taken away throughout these months of the 12 months and I noticed that rising up,” McVay stated. “He has such a particular relationship with my grandpa who was a coach and in personnel however one of many issues that prevented him from entering into teaching was, ‘Man, I had such a fantastic relationship however my dad missed out on a variety of the issues’ however didn’t wish to do this with me and my little brother. So, I at all times remembered that and in some unspecified time in the future, I need to have the ability to have a household. So, that’s why I say that. However, s—, you’ll most likely be speaking to me after I’m 61 doing these items.

“Who is aware of?”

McVay and common supervisor Les Snead signed extensions with the Rams in January 2019 which have them underneath contract by means of the 2023 season. Since taking up in 2017, McVay has led the Rams to a 61-29 report, together with the playoffs, three NFC West division titles and a pair of NFC championships.

For now, McVay’s focus is on successful the Lombardi Trophy that has evaded him and the Rams since dropping to the New England Patriots in Tremendous Bowl LIII. Atoning for that loss, a recreation through which McVay has admitted he was outcoached, there was one other storyline surrounding the Rams coach this week.

“I feel what you do to recover from it’s you have a look at your self within the mirror, you’re taking accountability and you retain it shifting,” McVay stated Monday. “I feel as a competitor, you’ve to have the ability to deal with these robust moments and I’ll by no means run away from the truth that I didn’t do a ok job for our crew inside what I really feel like my position and duty is to those guys.”