Rams coach Sean McVay and GM Les Snead to get contract extensions

Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp usually are not the one members of the Rams parlaying Tremendous Bowl-winning performances into new contracts.

Coach Sean McVay and common supervisor Les Snead will obtain extensions, chief working officer Kevin Demoff stated Tuesday on the NFL house owners conferences.

“They’re the architects of this run,” Demoff stated.

In 5 seasons underneath McVay, the Rams have made two Tremendous Bowl appearances, together with a victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Tremendous Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium.

Snead and McVay acquired extensions after the Rams misplaced to the New England Patriots in Tremendous Bowl LIII on the finish of the 2018 season. They’ve two years remaining on these offers.

“They’ve a tremendous working relationship,” Demoff stated. “You’d be silly, if you have a look at how exhausting it’s on this league to win, to not attempt to hold collectively a pair that’s accomplished it rather well.”

McVay, who reportedly earned about $8.5 million final season, is about to maybe be part of Invoice Belichick of the New England Patriots and Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks at or close to the highest of the NFL coaches wage record. Belichick reportedly earns greater than $12 million per season, Carroll $11 million.

The Rams entered the offseason with what McVay and Snead described because the “high-priority” activity of extending Stafford’s contract and re-doing Donald’s. Stafford lately signed a four-year, $160-million extension.

Donald has not publicly refuted a report that he was contemplating retirement if the Rams received the Tremendous Bowl. Nevertheless, throughout a media session Tuesday morning, McVay stated Donald informed him he would return subsequent season.

“There was sort of an understanding of, ‘Hey, everytime you’re prepared to speak about it, let’s speak about it after which let’s make a plan shifting ahead as a result of what was necessary is, in case you are coming again …. let’s go forward and construct this factor and have a plan that’s in alignment with having the ability to help you, get you a brand new contract and people issues,’ ” McVay stated. “‘And if not, then we’ve obtained a number of plans that we’ve obtained to make accordingly.’…

“As soon as he stated that, I understand how excited I used to be, and then you definately begin to say, ‘All proper, properly, let’s join with [agent] Todd France and let’s determine the logistics of making an attempt to get him a contract.’”

Dialogue with Donald and his illustration “has been nothing however optimistic,” vice-president Tony Pastoors stated.

“All of us have the identical purpose — discover a appropriate answer and ensure he’s carrying a Rams uniform subsequent fall,” Pastoors stated. “It’s simply determining how that appears and what meaning.”

After the Tremendous Bowl, broadcast networks reportedly made profitable overtures to McVay to transition into an analyst function. McVay stated a number of weeks in the past that he handed on the alternatives and was trying ahead to teaching the Rams.

So, how relieved was McVay that Donald, a three-time NFL defensive participant of the years, was returning?

“Possibly I’d have accomplished the TV stuff if Aaron retired,” McVay joked Tuesday throughout an open media session.

No crew has repeated as Tremendous Bowl champion because the Patriots within the 2003 and 2004 seasons.

The crew McVay coaches within the upcoming season will, in some ways, look completely different than the crew Snead assembled for its championship run.

Core gamers reminiscent of offensive deal with Andrew Whitworth, receiver Robert Woods and punter Johnny Hekker — who had performed underneath McVay since his hiring in 2017 — are gone. So are outdoors linebacker Von Miller, cornerback Darious Williams, defensive lineman Sebastian Joseph-Day and offensive lineman Austin Corbett.

The Rams re-signed offensive linemen Joseph Noteboom and Brian Allen and signed free-agent receiver Allen Robinson earlier than buying and selling Woods to the Tennessee Titans.

The Rams are trying to re-sign receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and awaiting a choice by free-agent linebacker Bobby Wagner.

The Rams, underneath McVay, haven’t made a major monetary funding at inside linebacker. And they aren’t apt to interrupt the financial institution for Wagner, a six-time All-Professional throughout 10 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks.

Wagner visited with the Rams final week and additionally reportedly had contact with the Dallas Cowboys and visited the Baltimore Ravens.

“He’s sort of going by his course of, however there’s undoubtedly curiosity,” McVay stated, “and if we will get it labored out, I’d be fired up.”

Stated Snead: “He is aware of that our state of affairs is there after he analyzes all of it.”