I like to think there's another objective in the Rams' interest in KK (being just semi-serious here).
Expand the Fight for LA! to include USC football. The more teams the Rams can knock off the front of the sports page, the better for the Rams. I mean if anything could turn a dumpster fire into a dumpster inferno, USC losing KK to the Rams after leaking the stories of a deal in principle for KK to be USC OC could do it. All the heat that Swan is under for bringing back Helton would be turned up past 12 for not being able to close the deal for KK.
That's pretty Machiavellian and if I can say one thing with as much certainty as one can have for someone they've never met, it's that McVay is the last person to be a schemer.
His very nature of being all about football and his laser focus almost prevents devoting energies to such a pursuit.
Moreover, there are plenty of compelling football reasons to bring KK in.
Spread concepts are becoming more popular by the day. Offenses have to incorporate them and defenses have to learn how to stop them. Of the spread proponents, only Lincoln Riley and Kliff Kingsbury are both top minds and potentially available. Riley hasn't made any decisions and his team is still playing, Kingsbury was let go (MISTAAAAKE!!!).
There is too much potential synergy to not make the call. We may lose more offensive coaches and McVay's recruiting HAS to continue. As we continue to excel, our offensive coaching staff will continue to be poached as long as they have success and so far they have.
Kingsbury, if he has any ambition to be successful in the NFL has to know that college HCs who go directly to being Pro HCs have a terrible success rate. Becoming an OC and really learning the differences between college and the NFL is key to success. And it sure can't hurt to have "worked with Sean McVay" on his resume.
