Many people have a regret in life. As a football coach, not running the ball near the goal line with Marshawn Lynch, for example, seems regretful.
Another coach in the NFC West has a different regret in his career: not being the best communicator that he could have been.
That is how Los Angeles Rams Head Coach Sean McVay feels about his handling of the Matthew Stafford trade.
In that agreement, Jared Goff, then Rams quarterback, was dealt to the Detroit Lions (along with picks) for Stafford.
Sean McVay Has Regret Over How He Handled Jared Goff
McVay appeared on the Open Mike podcast with Mike Silver in June and said he regrets how the Goff-era ended.
“(…) I wish that there had been better in-person communication,” McVay said on the podcast.
If a do-over of the scenario could happen, this is how McVay would have handled it, “you sit down with him, you look him in the eye, you tell him that instead of calling him and setting up a meeting where that was my intention when I got back from Cabo.”
McVay’s lack of communication with his ex-quarterback is his main regret throughout his young career so far. However, he said via the podcast “I’ll not make those same mistakes again.”
Goff went 42-20 in his time with coach McVay in Los Angeles. He had a Super Bowl appearance, two Pro Bowl selections and a 3-3 playoff record in four years with McVay.
In one season with his new quarterback, Stafford, McVay finally won his first Super Bowl ring after missing out with Goff. McVay touts a winning season in each year he has been a head coach in the NFL.
He also said, on the podcast, Goff sent him one of the best texts he received after winning the Super Bowl. The bond between coach and player seems to be there still, even though the pair are now separated.
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