"Anybody that spends five minutes with Sean McVay comes away from it and goes, 'Man, that kid's not 31," Rams left tackle Andrew Whitworth also told Silver before McVay turned 32 in January. "It's kind of the same as when you're around a truly great player, a future Hall of Famer. You hear people talk about Jonathan Ogden or Anthony Muñoz or Deion Sanders, and they say, 'You knew from the beginning this guy was gonna be special. You could just tell he's different.' That's how it is with Sean."