The Los Angeles Rams' "first goal" is to have Matthew Stafford remain the team's starting quarterback but the franchise is trying to balance short-term and long-term roster decisions by letting their quarterback gauge his value, coach Sean McVay said on the "Fitz & Whit" podcast.
"There's no discrepancy on us wanting him to continue to lead the way and be our quarterback," McVay said on the podcast, hosted by former NFL players Ryan Fitzpatrick and Andrew Whitworth (who played for McVay on the Rams), that was released Tuesday. "The interesting and the challenging dilemma and dynamics within this are, 'Hey, how do you continuously as a head coach look at the short term and the long term and be able to figure out what does that really look like?