Sean McVay nonetheless is not speaking about journey plans for Australia

Earlier this month, Rams coach Sean McVay turned uncharacteristically truculent when requested about stories that his workforce would arrive late and depart early from Australia.

It was clear McVay didn’t need to discuss in regards to the subject publicly till he talked to his workforce, which meant there was no purpose to speak to a 90-man workforce about one thing that will in the end affect solely 53 of them (plus the observe squad).

On Sunday, he was requested whether or not he has spoken to the workforce in regards to the itinerary.

“I haven’t done that yet,” McVay mentioned, “so that means I’m not talking to you about it either.”

The subsequent query was whether or not he has a timeline for doing so.

“I’ll probably do it the week of the game so don’t ask me until then,” McVay mentioned. “Here’s what I would tell you though. I know we’ve laughed and had some good fun interactions about it, but I do want to be able — I think they have a loose idea of what we’re doing but I do still think it is appropriate in terms of the trajectory. I want to be able to talk to them about it, but we’re leaving later than most people would probably expect.”

In different phrases, yep, they’re going late. And they’re leaving early.

With the obvious objective of minimizing the affect of the keep in Melbourne on their physique clocks. The query is whether or not they’ll be appropriately acclimated to carry out in Australia, given the lengthy flight and the brief lag time. Especially for the reason that 49ers apparently plan to get there a number of days earlier than the Rams.

Either approach, the sport is simply 10 days away. And the journey discrepancy could possibly be a problem throughout the recreation. After the sport, the query will likely be whether or not the Rams get well extra rapidly than the 49ers from the ordeal, given the choice to not stick round lengthy sufficient to regulate to being within the land down beneath.