McVay quaalude – Sean McVay admitted the Rams’ Week 3 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles felt so surreal he joked he must have taken a quaalude when he saw a crucial blocked field goal. Los Angeles had led 26-7 in the third quarter before conceding 26 unanswered points. McVay’s c
Sean McVay didn’t describe the moment like a coach looking back with distance. He described it like a scene he still can’t quite believe.
On May 19. McVay appeared on Bussin’ With the Boys and returned to one of the Rams’ most painful setbacks from last season—especially the way it happened. He said that every single game Los Angeles lost in 2025 took something out of the team. but he singled out the losses that came with bizarre. gut-wrenching endings.
McVay called his team’s five regular-season losses “gut wrenching,” saying, “That was crazy, but if you really go through all five of our regular season losses, I mean they were all like…gut wrenching.”
For him, the clearest example was the Rams’ Week 3 loss against Philadelphia. That game featured a crucial blocked field goal attempt—one that he said made his decisions leading up to the play feel completely unbelievable in the moment.
McVay explained what he was thinking before the attempt. “We ran it on first and 10 to get to second and three because I’m like alright we’re good,” he said. Then the memory sharpened into a joke that landed as disbelief more than humor: “I thought to myself. man. I must have taken a quaalude because this can’t be real life. what I’m watching right now. When I saw that field goal get blocked. But I’ll tell you this though. that s*** sucked in the moment but our group used all of those to callous them the right way. And we came up short, but that’s one of my all-time favorite teams.”.
The emotional weight of that loss is reflected in what happened on the scoreboard. Los Angeles held a 26-7 lead in the third quarter, then gave up 26 unanswered points to lose the game.
That sequence is exactly the kind of swing McVay says he carries from 2025—losses that don’t just end a week. but seem to linger inside the team’s process. As Los Angeles looks ahead to another playoff push this fall. the framing around the season is shifting in a different direction too: quarterback Matthew Stafford signed an extension before his 18th season. a move that suggests the 2025 MVP is not ready to retire.
The Rams now have a fresh set of dates to chase. LA plays Philadelphia in Week 4 of the 2026 season, and McVay’s blunt memory of that blocked field goal is part of why the rematch matters. If last season’s collapse left anything behind, it’s motivation—and plenty of it.
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