Sean McVay has the Los Angeles Rams out to a 6-2 record in his first season as a head coach at the age of 31.

"What you notice about Sean is he’s a millennial in so many ways," said Rams COO Kevin Demoff. "But he’s really an old soul in football. He knows what works. Like, he said to us he really wanted Wade Phillips to coach the defense. He knew he wasn’t going to do it, so why not get someone who’d done it so well for so long. So the defense is all Wade’s. He took the interim coach [John Fassel] and kept him as special-teams coach, and gave him more responsibilities, like clock management and timeouts. So he knows it’s smart to empower people.”

The Rams had a 4-12 record last season with many speculating that Jared Goff was already a bust.