Rams' Sean McVay offers hint about future amid new report

Head coach Sean McVay has suggested he's prepared to run it back with the Los Angeles Rams for another season despite the club's disappointing 2022 campaign. 

"This year has been, in my opinion, from just what I can control, a professional failure," McVay admitted to reporters, per Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk. "And that’s been humbling, it’s been challenging. It’s revealed some things I wouldn’t have known about myself that you have to be able to deal with and acknowledge accordingly. But if you do it the right way, I do believe you can be stronger. But I think every experience you can learn from, some might be good, some might be bad." 

McVay was speaking as the injury-plagued 5-11 Rams prepare to close a season to forget out at the 8-8 Seattle Seahawks this Sunday. 

"Even though you don’t want to have to go through it again, there’s no doubt about it that these will be lessons that I am confident that will make me better, and a more whole person and leader moving forward," McVay added during his comments. 

Fox Sports personality Colin Cowherd and Dan Patrick raised eyebrows in early December when they offered reasons for why they believed McVay could step away from the Rams this winter to pursue a broadcasting gig. The 36-year-old reportedly flirted with accepting a role with Amazon for 

"Thursday Night Football" coverage last year but ultimately confirmed in August he had signed an extension with the Rams said to be worth roughly $14 million per season. 

Days ahead of Christmas, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler and NBC Sports' Peter King predicted McVay will return to the Rams for at least one more year. That, however, was before Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports reported Thursday that NFL television partners are eying McVay "as a possible game or studio analyst for the 2023 season" if it's learned he's open to embracing a break from coaching. 

"The (Rams) just had an abysmal year. I don’t know how optimistic that team is about the future. It could be an ominous situation," one source told McCarthy. "I would expect networks to call (McVay) and gauge his interest again. I’m sure some already have."