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Matthew Stafford practiced for the second day in a row on Tuesday, giving the Rams and their fans a little more reason for optimism that he will be ready for L.A.’s Week 1 game against the Houston Texans. Sean McVay addressed the media after practice, saying that Stafford “looked good” and that he was better on Tuesday than he was on Monday.
McVay isn’t talking like a coach who is out of the woods by any means, noting that the team will “continue to hope that he’s able to stack days” and that “backs can be a volatile thing”.
Four weeks into training camp, Stafford has now practiced twice and he didn’t have one of his starting receivers out there on Tuesday because Davante Adams got a rest day. The chemistry and timing with Stafford and Adams should be relatively easy given the ridiculous amount of combined years of experience that they have in the NFL, but it is also not something that has been worked on for months.
However, so long as Stafford is practicing with the team in any capacity, that’s the “positive progress” that McVay is referring to when it comes to Tuesday’s second day in a row of workouts for the starting quarterback.
Certainly the possibility of surgery would seem to rule out any participation in practice for Stafford, so McVay can be trusted when he says that hasn’t been discussed yet. But he also wants to be overly cautious when it comes to talking about Stafford’s return, urging patience and taking wins where he can get them, like merely the fact that Stafford was better than yesterday and he hopes the QB will feel okay tomorrow.
Does he know that? Nobody knows. So the Rams are taking it a day at a time.
