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    Sean McVay admits strategy of sitting Jared Goff out of Rams exhibition games 'might not be for everybody'

    by Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times Sep 10, 2018 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The Pro Bowl quarterback did not take a snap.

    The reigning NFL offensive player of the year never got a handoff.

    A first-unit lineman didn't make a block, and no top receiver caught a pass.

    The Los Angeles Rams will open the regular season Monday night against the Raiders in Oakland, after having lined up for four preseason games in the last month. But no member of the team's starting offense played a down.

    Not because of medical reasons; not because of contract squabbles. All because Sean McVay, the youngest coach in the league and its reigning coach of the year, decided the risks of injury were greater than the rewards of repetition.

    "Just like anything else," McVay, 32, said of his strategy, "it might not be for everybody."

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