Sean McVay interview w/ Mike Silver

[Faceplant]

Didn’t Fishers son Trent play there at the time.

He played 2012-13, so yeah, he was there when Fisher took over. You may be right with that connection actually. Les is an Auburn alum and I remember a lot of chatter back then about him going to the Auburn well out of bias, but I haven't seen many (any?) Auburn players drafted by the Rams since Tre Mason.

Funny about the reporter as well.Silver was in The Rams draft room that season as well when Greg Robinson was picked.He was the one in control.

Holy shnikeys!!! Michael Silver was in control of our 2014 Draft??? At least he drafted Donald!!!

 

[So Ram]

He played 2012-13, so yeah, he was there when Fisher took over. You may be right with that connection actually. Les is an Auburn alum and I remember a lot of chatter back then about him going to the Auburn well out of bias, but I haven't seen many (any?) Auburn players drafted by the Rams since Tre Mason.

Holy shnikeys!!! Michael Silver was in control of our 2014 Draft??? At least he drafted Donald!!!

Could be the GOAT. Warren Sapp has nothing on AD99.Just to use a comparison from that DT quick Tampa II. Would be a good question to ask both Mcvay & Raheem Morris from there Days (back in the day) with Tomlin ?

 

[Psycho_X]

Silver is a big Goff fan and supported the Rams pretty adamantly. Almost too much at times but I appreciate the support so he’s a good egg in my book.

Until they traded Goff and he was about as negative and critical as he could be towards McVay, Rams, and Snead up until the point they won the Super Bowl. He even made direct comments several times throughout the season saying that Goff was a better QB than Stafford. He takes his job way too personal for his opinions to have much credibility imo. I'm impressed with McVay's ability to not hold grudges or let his ego get in the way of giving Silver an interview for his first show though after he raked him over the coals all last offseason.

But maybe I'm being too critical lol... he just really got on my nerves throughout the season with some of his tweets.

 

[Merlin]

I used to like Silver. Talented writer but a bit of a twat.

 

[thirteen28]

Good interview. I like that McVay was willing to sit down with Silver despite the fact that Silver had shown a lot of animus in the last year. By taking on the whole Goff situation head on and not running away from the issues where he could have communicated things better, McVay probably did a lot to smooth over those issues, and perhaps Silver won't let his biases get the better of him as much. Loved the nuggets about Goff sending a great text to McVay after the Super Bowl. Nobody could have reasonably blamed Jared had he cut off all ties with McVay after the way things went down, but instead he showed nothing but class. Ditto with regard to his saying Stafford deserved his good fortune with the Rams.

 

[Selassie I]

I just informed our local sports radio guy (Mike Bianchi) that Silver stole his show's name "Open Mike". I told him not to let Silver get away with this obvious theft. Bianchi has had his morning show here in Orlando for way over a decade and it even put BSPN's morning show(s) off the air here in O-Town. Funny too since Mickey Mouse owns BSPN and they can't even keep their shows on the air in their own hometown market.

Maybe Bianchi will be able to make Silver come up with his own name instead of stealing his. Bianchi is the longtime sports journalist with the Orlando Sentinel too... he is probably not gonna be happy about this. I just sent him an email letting him know about Silver... I haven't heard back from him yet.

 

[Selassie I]

Update on the "show" name theft...

This morning, our local sports radio host pretty much read my email to him on the air explaining how Silver has decided to steal his show name "Open Mike" from the long running "Open Mike" show here in O-Town.

They made fun of Silver a little for it and explained who Silver actually is to the listeners. Mike Bianchi called him a well connected NFL insider.

Then... in Bianchi's normal self deprecated style... he said that he wasn't 100% sure that he didn't steal his show's name years ago too. LOL.

Well at least they made fun of Silver at first about it. He definitely stole the name. It's one thing if he decided to use the name Open Mic... because that name is used on many things... but he decided to use the name Open Mike... and that is the name of the long running highly rated morning sports talk show here in Orlando.

I think I'm gonna try and stir up more shit about this. I'm going to contact Silver and let him know that I ratted him out and see what happens.

 

[Selassie I]

I sent an email to Volume. That's the company's name that is doing Silver's show. Hopefully they'll respond so I can share it here. They should because I let them know they've been called out on the radio here in Orlando and throughout Ram Nation here at RamsOnDemand.com

I tried to make it a fun thing in hopes that we can get some interaction with Silver here on the site. I told him that he needs to try and save some face with all of Ram Nation by coming on here to respond.

LOL

We'll see if they have a sense of humor or not.

 

[OntarioRam]

I am not sure if buy Sean McVay's explanation for his handling of the Jared Goff situation in this interview. McVay sometimes comes across as a little bit fake to me. This was one of those occasions IMO.

But I respect the hell out of the fact that McVay:

1. Owned up to not handling the Jared Goff situation very well;
2. Admitted that his explanations for the poor handling of the Jared Goff situation (e.g. thinking that the Stafford deal would take much longer to come together) were, at the end of the day, excuses, and;
3. Doing the above live, on the record, while appearing on a sports talk interview with a massive audience. This was not some local personality. It was Mike Silver. The interview was also disseminated via Colin Cowherd's sports podcast, The Herd, and I also believe on FS1 (but I am open to correction on that one). There are also probably more sources I am unaware of. So you can bet millions of sport fans were listening to this. Not just Rams fans, or even just football fans. That takes humility and good character. It looks quite good on McVay to have done it.

So, McVay gets major props for me for this interview.

I also think that McVay is 100% correct in communicating (far from a direct quote here) that in the heat of the moment, in such a competitive sport, where everyone is trying to get an edge, in a league where the margins between victory and defeat are razor thin... sometimes people do things that they had no ill will associated with, but looking back, they regret not having handled a little bit better. I also think McVay is spot on when he says that with the passage of time, hopefully people will be able to look back on Goff's career with the Rams and see it for the good times, as opposed to the bad and its messy ending, as there were indeed lots of highs.

I still have my crow-eating post re: Sean McVay coming, for those keeping score, I have not forgotten! I have been possibly his toughest critic on this forum. Upon reflecting on this past Super Bowl winning season, I have changed my tune on him, and I can explain why. It is not just because the Rams' managed a Lombardi. It is in large part independent of that, and more so about the journey and general team shaping along the way.

 

[Mojo Ram]

Just to play Devils advocate, how should have McVay handled the Goff thing better?

Keeping in mind that the goal was to upgrade the position for the better of the team…