{"id":896556,"date":"2026-09-18T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896556\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:04:32","slug":"nfl-news-2026-la-rams-coach-sean-mcvay-comments-about-australia-return-plans-press-conference-loss-to-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896556\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL news 2026: LA Rams coach Sean McVay comments about Australia, return plans, press conference, loss to 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean McVay has declared he doesn\u2019t want the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> to play an NFL<\/a> game in Australia again after last week\u2019s failed trip<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The comments from the Rams head coach have gone down like a lead balloon.<\/p>\n

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Sean McVay speaks after the Melbourne game.\u00a0AP Photo\/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake<\/p>\n

McVay\u2019s team were outgunned in their first game of the season last week in front of 100,000 fans at the MCG, going down 27-7 against the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a dour way to start the season for the Rams, who were boosted by the off-season addition of Myles Garrett<\/a> and the return of team legend Aaron Donald<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To make matters worse, Garrett suffered a knee injury, while Donald didn\u2019t even make the trip to Australia as he prepares to come out of retirement.<\/p>\n

Speaking to media on Friday (AEST), McVay said his team would try and erase the Aussie experience from their memories and hoped to not do it again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost like you try and do the Men In Black thing where you don\u2019t remember what happened, that was so long ago,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not playing in Australia ever again, I hope. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot because it wasn\u2019t a great atmosphere, that will get taken out of context \u2013 but bottom line is, I like the way I feel with our preparation moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

McVay, who is regarded as one of the NFL\u2019s elite coaches, was criticised for the way the Rams handled the game, only arriving in Melbourne a day before kick off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Compare that to the 49ers, who were on the ground in the Aussie city for an entire week, getting amongst the community and promoting the sport, leading to them receiving a more positive reaction than their rivals last week.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Rams \u2013 along with Jordan Mailata<\/a>\u2019s Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> \u2013 are one of the two NFL franchises with a direct association and partnership with Australia.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s expected the Eagles will play a game Down Under in coming seasons, while the Las Vegas Raiders are also growing their footprint in Australia. <\/p>\n

The partnership between the Rams and Australia has now clearly been soured, with McVay\u2019s comments were scolded on social media by fans and journalists.<\/p>\n

McVay\u2019s men will look to get their 2026 season on track against the New York Giants on Tuesday morning (AEST).<\/p>\n

Popular NFL content creator Tiffany Krylov labelled the comment from McVay as a \u201cshitty throwaway line\u201d and urged him to \u201cbe better\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou chose to fly in late. You made the call you thought was best for your team. It didn\u2019t work. You got beaten and to your credit, you\u2019ve owned your responsibility in that,\u201d Krylov said via Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut \u201cwe\u2019re not playing in Australia ever again, I hope\u201d is a shitty throwaway line when your organisation has worked so hard to build something here.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re the face of that organisation. You\u2019ve gotta be better than that.<\/p>\n

Australian, please don\u2019t write off the Rams because of one comment. They\u2019re a great organisation, they\u2019ve genuinely invested in this country, their players were bloody lovely while they were here and they\u2019re a fun team to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean McVay has declared he doesn\u2019t want the Los Angeles Rams to play an NFL game in Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-896556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}