But the thing is, if we had run it twice, the clock doesn't stop moving unless Seattle used it last timeout and even then one of the downs would run down the clock. Hell, you could have done a delay of game to run it down to nothing. Kick the FG anyway and make Geno throw a hail mary....
Having said that, Sean McVay is the best Rams coach in our history. and I will roll with him till the end. I can't comprehend those in this forum who want to dump this guy, as though they could easily pick his replacement?
Jeff Fisher + failure
Spags + failure
Linehan + failure
Martz + ok at first and then a failure (one lost Super Bowl)
Vermeil + 2nd best in my lifetime, but still failed most of his time with the Rams
Brooks = failure
Chuck Knox (2) + failure
Robinson + OK. but no Super Bowl appearance
Ray Malavasi + Ok. One Super Bowl appearance.
I could keep going, but you get my point. NEVER even think of dumping a Super Bowl winning coach, because the Rams do not have a great history of picking good HC's.
Have a long-time friend that is a Steeler fan going back to the mid-70s. We also play some FF together. He responded to a screen-shot I'd sent out to the league of the Fantasy QB numbers from yesterday's Browns-Steelers game (Hint: Neither QB scored even 10 pts).
He's out on Tomlin. In my response I told him I get it but also cautioned him as "one who has wandered the NFL wastelands with coach after sh*tty coach there is much to be said for keeping a guy who has zero losing seasons in 17 years."
It's a fine line. One should not be so fast to just toss competence aside when the league is full of teams with incompetent coaching staffs. But surely there is a point where good or even really-good isn't good enough.
Having said that, McVay isn't anywhere near that at this point. You are absolutely correct in that McVay is the single-best HC in the organization's modern-history if not ever. As I've mentioned in other threads, he's had a .333 winning percentage since the SB win (9-18 updated as of yesterday) and he is STILL 20 games over .500 with 2 SB appearances and one win.
I'm not gonna throw that out over one season's frustrations when we all should have reasonably known they were going to be, at best, a very average team this year.