The NFL had to call an audible this year with the draft due to the coronavirus, tweaking the structure of the big event. Instead of coaches and GMs being at their teams’ facilities, they were forced to work from home and go through the draft remotely.
The broadcast on ESPN showed the setups of every coach, and Kliff Kingsbury’s view during the draft went viral on Twitter. He was sitting back on the couch in his living room with a TV on the wall and two monitors in front of him.
Sean McVay’s war room was much simpler, sitting at his kitchen table. McVay caught wind of his friend’s setup and gave him a hard time about it.
Sean McVay said he gave Kliff Kingsbury a hard time about this.
"Kliff had that thing set up like it was a movie for himself. I was killing him about that last night, like he was trying to film a movie about it. I said, 'You were trying pretty hard there bro.'" https://t.co/ACctJIGFMn
— Stu Jackson (@StuJRams) April 25, 2020
For comparison’s sake, here’s a look at how McVay’s war room looked next to Kingsbury. Their patios admittedly look similar, but McVay wasn’t lounging on a coach sockless in loafers like the Cardinals coach.
Young coaches share houses?pic.twitter.com/bLGLPQLVAC
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) April 25, 2020
McVay and Kingsbury are good friends and their relationship goes back a while. McVay even tried to bring Kingsbury to the Rams as an assistant before the Cardinals hired him.
And this isn’t the first time McVay has given Kingsbury a hard time. He played a cruel prank on him last year, fooling him into thinking he violated the tampering rules by having a meal with Patrick Mahomes.
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