The surprise for Tim McVay isn’t that his son has become a successful NFL head coach. It’s the timing that astonished him.
“I’m not naïve about how difficult and challenging it is to be in a top leadership position,” McVay told Newsday from his home in Atlanta, where Sean McVay will soon to lead the Rams against the Patriots in Super Bowl LIII. “I realize it’s unusual to have an NFL head coach at such a young age, but he’s been exposed to it all of these years being in the business and being around it.”
Tim McVay, who played safety at Indiana before going on to a highly successful career at Cox Media Group Television in Atlanta, could easily envision his son becoming a coach as he watched Sean grow up playing football.