On the surface, Monday\u2019s news regarding Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was positive. He practiced. He looked good.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s still a lingering mystery regarding his status.<\/p>\n
The transcript of coach Sean McVay\u2019s press conference says it all. In scattered but unmistakable words peppered throughout his comments.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an edited collection of the things McVay said that do little to erase the question of whether Stafford will be good to go when Week 1 rolls around in 20 days: \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep it a day and really a week at a time. . . . I\u2019m not going to pigeonhole myself into any plans and so we\u2019re just seeing how he feels. We\u2019re truly taking it a day at a time and a week at a time right now. . . . We\u2019re trying to get our hands on it. We\u2019re trying to do right by the player number one and our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
As to McVay\u2019s confidence that Stafford will face the Texans on September 7, McVay said, \u201cI think that would be putting the cart way before the horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the team\u2019s overall approach with Stafford and his back issue, McVa said, \u201cI think what\u2019s really happened is when you look at it, there were a lot of things that we had talked about at the beginning and it\u2019s gone a little bit differently than what we had planned. I think the right thing to do for everybody involved is to truly take it a day at a time. . . . That\u2019s where you just take it a day at a time because it\u2019s a very fluid situation that demands flexibility as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, yes, the situation is far from resolved. Stafford practiced on Monday. That\u2019s good. But the back issues clearly aren\u2019t done and gone. If they were, there\u2019d be no reason to take things \u201ca day and really a week at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In less than three weeks, it\u2019s time to play a game that counts. And it seems like this is something that will continue to be an issue, especially once Stafford starts playing \u2014 and starts getting hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the surface, Monday\u2019s news regarding Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was positive. He practiced. He looked good. But…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-157614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115053794710844167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}