A few feet from the end zone, the ball was out. Kyren Williams, once the hero of the comeback, suddenly found himself on the wrong side of the highlight reel. And just like that, a game the Rams had clawed their way back into evaporated.

In the fluorescent hum of the post-game presser, Sean McVay didn’t duck or deflect. Asked about the fourth-down call that led to the fumble, he offered no coach-speak. “It was a bad call,” McVay said, the words hanging in the air. “It was a bad call by me.” It wasn’t just an admission; it was a confession. He said he wished he’d sent the kicking unit out, that instead, he put his players in a “shitty” spot. And that one spot, that one yard, is where this 23-20 loss to a battered 49ers squad will live in his memory.

The call was a vote of confidence in

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