“Sean McVay is the best coach in the league” according to GMFB’s Kyle Brandt

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay is praised after the team’s 12-6 win over San Francisco 49ers this week raises faith in the coach and his team to new heights. Confidence in the team was already flying high after a huge underdog victory over Buffalo Bills with the fan base coming in at 93% on our FanDuel survey this week. Considering the survey was taken before the 49ers won, one might speculate that the number would be even higher after Thursday night’s win.

On Friday, NFL Network analyst Kyle Brandt added to the Rams hype, has a lot to say specifically about McVay on Good morning football:

“I saw it a lot last night, this morning, people come out ‘Wow, McVay has put together a hell of a season, McVay is a really great coach’ How many times have I said it, he’s the best coach in the league. The best coach in the league. He can win a game one week with 44 points, he can win a game the next week with 12 points.” Brandt continued “This was a 2-4 that was laughed at and ignored, just like they were last year when they also made the playoffs, the best coach in the league can make his team keep fighting.”

It’s been said that 2023 was McVay’s best coaching year, taking a very young team that wasn’t expected to make much of a season from a 3-6 start in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. But somehow, McVay has topped that coaching effort this year, bringing an injury-ravaged team from the basement at 1-4 to 8-6 and in full control of their playoff destiny. McVay has the uncanny ability to make players believe in themselves more the further into adversity they get, uniting the locker room in a way that makes the team feel like a family.

It’s a stark contrast from the team the Rams faced Thursday night. Before the game, 49ers WR Deebo Samuel called his team about his frustrations with his lack of opportunities to watch the football. It was clear the Niners were trying to feed him on Thursday, but Samuel couldn’t rise to the occasion as he specifically dropped a huge turnover on a ball that hit him in the chest. On top of this, San Francisco has been dealing with holdouts all summer and even had a player leave the field mid-game. In the way McVay has been able to unite his team under adversity, the exact opposite appears to be happening from the outside for the Rams’ NFC West rivals up north. The longer adversity hits San Francisco, the longer they seem to sit back and struggle inward.

LA has three games left against the Jets, Cardinals and Seahawks. They have proven that their offense can be explosive vs. Bills, and they’ve proven that their defense can lock down vs. 49ers, if McVay can pull off another coaching miracle and find a way to string both of those successes together in a single game, their potential could take them all the way to Super Bowl and cement McVay’s legacy as a coach among the best.