Sean McVay and Jared Goff have gotten along since day one. When McVay interviewed to be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Rams last year, Goff happened to nearby and available – so they brought him in as part of the interview process. According to Mike Silver, they didn’t just get a good vibe from each other.

It was literally love at first sight.

From Mike Silver’s profile of McVay on NFL.com:

“They left us alone for half an hour, maybe a little longer,” Goff recalls. “Afterward, I remember texting my dad, ‘If they decide to hire him, I’m all in.’ ” Goff also texted : “Loved him. Mini Gruden haha. Everything revolves around the QB… If McVay is the guy I’d be fired up” A few minutes later, Silver also got a text from McVay: “I loved him bro he is awesome”

Yes, they both dropped the “L” word within a matter of hours. At the time it might’ve seemed like they were moving to fast. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s obvious that their chemistry and vision for the Rams offense was just that in sync. As the old saying goes: when you know, you know.

As Silver goes into more detail about McVay’s first conversations with Goff, it’s easy to see why the then 30-year-old was so impressed and immediately invested in the sophomore QB. Goff didn’t lament the impossible situation he been put in for his first seven NFL starts, even though he’d have been warranted if he had.

Via NFL.com:

“You almost kind of gave him an opportunity to make an excuse, and he didn’t go that route,” McVay recalls. “I loved that about him. He took accountability for what his responsibility was and never looked to blame anybody for whatever it was that didn’t work out. It’s what stood out. You could just see he was wired the right way. He was a guy that would never go the route of blaming anybody else, but it was all about, ‘What can I do to be part of the solution?’ And he was also supremely confident in his ability, and I sensed a guy that was just challenged in the right way.”

We’ve seen coaches and quarterbacks form legendary partnerships that lead to championships and dynasties. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Bill Walsh and Joe Montana. Tom Landry and Roger Staubach. Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr. Pairing an all-time coach with an all-time QB is the nearest thing to guaranteed success that there is in the NFL.

If McVay and Goff turn out to be all-time greats, their genuine fondness for each other could make them a pair unlike any we’ve seen. The aforementioned duos all feature coaches with larger-than-life personalities and legacies. Despite being separated by eras and decades, there’s a similar strain of tough-nosed narcissism that they all possess. McVay, while certainly as focused and dedicated, is a millennial. Hell, at 31 years old, he hasn’t even lived enough life to become develop the kind of strict ideology that we’ve come to expect from NFL coaches.

The camaraderie between McVay and Goff, and the results that it has already produced, has all the makings of a remarkable sports story. They just need to keep winning.

Click here to read Silver’s in-depth profile of McVay on NFL.com.