Ever since Sean McVay was hired as the Rams’ head coach in 2017, he and Jared Goff have worked in lockstep. They’ve made three trips to the postseason, Goff has been a Pro Bowler once and they haven’t had a season worse than 9-7 in four years so far.
But last week, Goff and McVay didn’t see eye to eye for what seems like the first time – at least publicly. It was reported by Mike Silver of NFL Network that Goff “was not happy” about McVay starting John Wolford over him in the wild-card round, and that the two have “gotten a bit crossed-up from where they were two years ago.”
Goff admitted to reporters this week that he and McVay did indeed disagree on the status of his thumb, but he doesn’t see anything wrong with that.
“We are able to disagree. We’re two grown men who disagreed on the status of my thumb, it’s not the end of the world,” Goff said. “I think I was able to come in there and help us get the win and that is most important to me. It’s something that we talked about last week and he had to plan accordingly. He’s the head coach. He has to make tough decisions like that. At the end of the day, it was last week and we’ve moved on.”
Goff and McVay aren’t the first quarterback-head coach duo to disagree on something. They also won’t be the last – and it won’t be the final time they don’t see something the same exact way.
There’s no problem with that, and in Goff’s mind, it can actually be a positive. When communication lacks, that’s when things tend to break down.
“Yeah, definitely. I mean, it happens every week across the NFL between coaches, players. It happens every week and I think it opens avenues of conversation and the differencing of opinions,” Goff said. “I think it’s great. I think that’s something we talk about a lot here is, where communication lacks, negativity fills, so continue to communicate, continue to tell each other how you feel, continue to say what you like, what you don’t like. I think we’ve always done that at a high level. It’s been great for us.”
The relationship between Goff and McVay remains strong, as it has been for the last four years. One little disagreement won’t be enough to derail what they’ve built, and Goff made that very clear in his message to the media this week.
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