Shocking: Matthew Stafford Says Is Not Your Concern But My Decision To Leave And I Will Never Return Till HC Sean McVay….

Promptly (and not coincidentally) after the Rams didn’t use a first-round draft pick on a quarterback, Matthew Stafford’s camp made it known he wants a new contract. To date, he has yet to get one.

His only leverage that doesn’t entail a potential fine consists of staying away from OTAs. For the Rams, they start Monday. So it’s fair to wonder whether Stafford will be there.

Complicating matters for the Rams is the fact that the guy who got the hot-potato-to-Detroit treatment, Jared Goff, recently got a contract worth $53 million per year in new money — and that has a practical guarantee of $148 million at signing.

Stafford specifically wants more guaranteed money beyond 2024, which would keep the Rams from cutting him after this season. (He currently has only $10 million in fully guaranteed compensation for 2025.)

The fact that Goff will get more than $75 million in cash this year becomes another potential issue for Stafford, whose payout from the Rams in 2024 is $31 million.

Earlier this month, coach Sean McVay seemed to suggest that the Rams would give Stafford the security he wants, days after tiptoeing around the issue. It hasn’t officially happened.

As folks in St. Louis know, the highest levels of the Rams’ organization is always up to something. Last year, the Rams were quietly hoping the Jets wouldn’t get Aaron Rodgers, so that they’d call about a trade for Stafford. Then, team president Kevin Demoff dismissed reports that the team had approached Stafford about re-doing his deal. Stafford amazingly (and hilariously) blew that out of the water by saying they did.

That’s surely why Stafford wants security beyond this year. The longer the Rams resist giving it to him, the more clear it becomes that they still hope to take it one year at a time with Stafford.

This past week’s schedule release marks a turn of the calendar in the NFL world, as the Los Angeles Rams can begin looking ahead to the 2024 season.

Free agency and the draft have passed, and now the schedule is out, which means head coach Sean McVay and his team can begin their preparation, starting with their Week 1 game against the Detroit Lions.

The Rams are hoping to build off last season when they unexpectedly finished 10-7 and made the playoffs, going 7-1 after their bye week. They are coming off a successful offseason in which they added key pieces on both sides of the ball through the draft and free agency, so McVay and his squad seem ready to get back into Super Bowl contention in 2024.

With the release of the schedule this past week though, teams come up with creative content ideas to celebrate. One of the videos the Rams posted was a trivia game with McVay on the schedule, and as always, he did not disappoint with his incredible memory:

If this video was any other coach then people would likely be questioning how real it is, but considering McVay’s history of remembering everything, it’s safe to say that the video is not doctored in any way.

In this video, McVay remembered play calls from years back, all-time leading receivers from other organizations, past Super Bowl halftime shows and much more. He has always claimed to be a historian of the game, and he continues to prove that with videos like this.

Now that the schedule is out though, McVay can begin preparing his team for the 2024 season with OTAs set to pick back up this coming week. The Rams have a ton of rookies and second-year players on the roster, so these offseason workouts are vital for getting them up to speed and ready for training camp in July.

Sean McVay explains why Rams drafted Jared Verse
With their first first-round pick since 2016, the Rams selected defensive end Jared Verse out of Florida State. Many expected the Rams to go with an offensive player, but Sean McVay explained why Verse made sense for them.

“He’s got great hands, he’s violent, he’s got a versatile arsenal of moves that he can activate, but he plays the game the way that we want it to be played,” McVay said. “We’re looking for grown men on defense.”