{"id":425205,"date":"2026-01-23T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425205\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:12:07","slug":"sean-mcvay-on-caleb-williams-td-pass-what-the-hell-just-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425205\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McVay on Caleb Williams TD pass: &#8220;What the hell just happened?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rams coach Sean McVay was as stunned as everyone else by the touchdown pass Bears quarterback Caleb Williams threw to force overtime on Sunday. But McVay knew he and his team needed to regroup immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his thoughts on the play, McVay said his biggest thought was how well his team responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a play where you\u2019re like, \u2018What the hell just happened?\u2019 I think it was important for us to be able to reset, and I thought our guys did that. And it wasn\u2019t like the overtime went exactly ideal either. That was what I was so impressed with,\u201d McVay said.<\/p>\n<p>In overtime, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/sean-mcvay-rams-overcame-my-terrible-third-and-1-play-call-in-overtime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McVay blamed himself<\/a> for a third-and-1 run on which the Rams lost two yards and had to punt. If the Bears had scored on the subsequent possession, the Rams\u2019 season would have been over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat third-and-1 play, I\u2019m thinking, man, if that ends up being the play that costs us because I didn\u2019t put us in a great spot, that would be a rough offseason,\u201d McVay said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Rams persevered in overtime, and their offseason isn\u2019t starting just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rams coach Sean McVay was as stunned as everyone else by the touchdown pass Bears quarterback Caleb Williams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-425205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}