“A poor decision with me there, but give Niners credit,” said McVay. “They made plenty of plays to win the football game. We had plenty of possibilities throughout this game. We continued in it, we fought, we fought, but there are many things we have to be able to clean up and a lot of football left.
“I’m pretty sick now. I’m sick of the place I put our group in to end the game. But hay, these are the hard beats that you have to be able to learn from and go on and that’s what we’re going to do.”
The series that was ahead of the end of the Snap game suggested that McVay had a better game in mind. As the third down the reception of Williams finished the short line to win, McVay was already with security and called his fourth and 1 game.
By sensing the 49 men, it could give up first and foremost, and coach Kyle Shanhan calls wisely in the break before the fourth place began. This was a Snap decision that could have won the San Francisco game.
After a break, McVay seemed to fluctuate and laid up the rams with instructions to try to pull 49ers offside. San Francisco did not take the bait and forced McVay to shape a new aggression.
At that moment, McVay was supported in the corner and made the decision to trust his run with an abnormally simple call. After having already gone beyond not returning, the coach knew he couldn’t trust and put himself in the field. Call it stupid or proud if you become; In the end, McVay saw it as sorry.
“No. No,” McVay said when asked if he had considered kicking the field goal. “In retrospect, I wanted to wish it.