Sean McVay has a famously impressive memory, but on Sunday, he predicted the future.
The Los Angeles Rams forced the Bengals into a fourth-and-one situation with 43 seconds to go in Sunday’s Super Bowl 56. They needed one stop, and the Super Bowl title would be locked up.
McVay knew that Aaron Donald was going to be the one to make that decisive play. He even said it out loud.
Mic’d-up footage from NFL Films was released on Monday, showing the sideline conversation that went on between McVay and the defense. McVay was pumping up the defense for the fourth-down call, and that was when he caught Donald’s attention specifically. He told Donald that this was his moment.