{"id":453143,"date":"2026-02-06T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:35:08","slug":"sean-mcvay-matthew-stafford-saying-hes-in-gives-us-confidence-for-how-we-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453143\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McVay: Matthew Stafford saying he&#8217;s in gives us confidence for how we move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Stafford had let Rams head coach Sean McVay and General Manager Les Snead know that he would be back with the club for 2026 before telling the world during his MVP acceptance speech on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>But like any good Hollywood story, McVay noted that the group \u201cwanted to make it dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Stafford won the first MVP award of his career, McVay told Gary Klein of the L.A. Times that Stafford\u2019s return sets up a positive outlook for the 2026 offseason and eases a little bit of the pain of falling to the Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the start to everything, is your quarterback position. And to be able to have a guy that\u2019s playing as good as he\u2019s ever played \u2014 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/rams\/story\/2026-02-05\/rams-quarterback-matthew-stafford-named-nfl-mvp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">and it\u2019s sustainable<\/a>,\u201d McVay said. \u201cAnd you know he\u2019s loving it. He\u2019s surrounded by a great group of guys, and we have a lot of continuity coming back. You start all over, but man, when he says he\u2019s in, that gives you a lot of confidence and excitement of how we can move forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, really happy for him. He\u2019s the most humble superstar I\u2019ve ever been around, and it\u2019s really cool. So if we can\u2019t be playing, this is a good consolation process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stafford completed 65 percent of his passes in 2025, leading the league with 4,707 yards and 46 touchdowns while passing for eight interceptions. He then threw for 936 yards with six touchdowns and one interception in three postseason games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford had let Rams head coach Sean McVay and General Manager Les Snead know that he would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-453143","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\/453143","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=453143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}