Sean McVay continues to reaffirm his commitment to the Rams. After the sixth-year Rams coach’s fiancée confirmed he did not plan to retire, Adam Schefter of ESPN.com adds the recent rumored NFL television shakeups will not affect McVay’s status.
The Super Bowl-winning head coach is not actively pursuing a TV job, Schefter tweets. McVay confirmed this to ESPN. While the rumblings of McVay leaving the coaching ranks at a young age may not be going away, this appears a back-burner issue for now.
McVay, 36, was linked to retirement rumors ahead of Super Bowl LVI. At the Rams’ victory parade, however, he incited a “Run it back” chant alongside Aaron Donald, who was also linked to a surprise retirement. A Donald exit would still surprise, though he has not definitively announced he is returning like McVay now has.
McVay was then mentioned as a possible option for Fox, which is set to lose top analyst Troy Aikman to ESPN, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. Amazon also was planning a McVay pursuit, per Marchand. Aikman leaving Fox for Monday Night Football could set off major changes, with Al Michaels’ NBC play-by-play job also in flux. Michaels, linked to Amazon as well, has a good relationship with McVay, Marchand adds, bringing more smoke into this situation.
The Rams are believed to be planning another McVay extension. He is currently attached to an $8.5MM-per-year agreement, one he signed in 2019. With Tony Romo earning nearly $20MM in salary at CBS, McVay could have conceivably commanded a far more lucrative salary as a TV analyst than he does as a coach. However, the Rams should be expected to raise McVay’s coaching salary considerably this offseason. It perhaps should be the expectation this saga ends with McVay becoming the NFL’s new highest-paid HC.
Why would one of the best coaches in the league retire at age 36? It doesn’t make any sense and is honestly quite silly someone made this a rumor and it’s now gaining traction.
prolly just lousy reporting
They pointed it out in the article. He makes $8.5M to coach, Romo makes $20M to announce. Even if McVay only got half of that, it would be a $1.5M raise to quit the 100 hour work week in which there is constant stress, while being able to be home more frequently as he gets married and starts a family.
Whoa!
Would be less stress and more money
Does anyone actually like Troy Aikman as a color guy? I don’t mean “hate him less than Joe Buck”. I mean actually like him and think he’s good.
He’s wallpaper with a slight drawl. At best.
He adds nothing.
Good coach but overrated. He won with the best team money could buy. Several coaches I’d take over him.
The Rams were 22nd in active cap. They spent less than the Giants, Jags, Bears, Seahawks, Falcons, Colts, etc. on players on their roster.
So now that the “best team money could buy” argument has been debunked, now what?